Curriculum Vitae of Jean-Daniel Fekete

1.  Position

Full Professor, Directeur de Recherche 2e ClasseSep. 06
Head of the AVIZ INRIA Team (http://www.aviz.fr) 
INRIA Saclay-île-de-France 
University Paris Sud, 
F91405 Orsay Cedex, France 
Email: Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr 
www.aviz.fr/~fekete 

2.  Education

Habilitation à diriger les recherches (Tenure): « Nouvelle génération d’Interfaces Homme-Machine pour mieux agir et mieux comprendre »—Univ. d’Orsay Paris Sud. Jury:Joëlle Coutaz, Prof. Univ. of Grenoble II, Saul Greenberg, Prof. Univ. of Calgary, Canada, Ben Shneiderman, Prof. Univ. of Maryland, USA, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Prof. Univ. Paris XI, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Prof. Univ. Paris VI, Guy Mélançon, Prof. Univ. Montpellier III, Claude Puech, Prof. Univ. Grenoble II.May 2005
Ph.D. in Computer Science. Lab. De Recheche en Informatique (LRI), University Paris-SudFeb. 96
DEA (Master) in Computer Science, University Paris-11Sep. 89

3.  Experience

Visiting Professor, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, USAAug. 01 – Aug. 02
Director of the “Interactive Design and Modeling” group, Ecole des Mines de NantesNov. 00 – Jul. 01
PhD student Lab. De Recherche en Informatique (LRI), University of Paris-Sud. PhD advisor: Michel Beaudouin-LafonSep 89 - Feb 96
Principal software architect of the “Tic Tac Toon” professional animation system 2001 S.A. Company, France. Supervision of 8 developersSep. 89 - Sep. 95
Software Developer and co founder of C2V, French Startup developing systems for Computer assisted medical diagnosis. Supervision of 3 developers87-89
Military service86-87
Research Assistant, Distributed Operating System Research Group (Chorus), INRIA Rocquencourt85-86
Research Assistant, “Medical Assistance to the Third World” group, Centre Mondial de l’Informatique, Paris82-86

4.  Workshop Organization

VisMaster Workshop on Visual Analytics Software Architecture, with Thomas Baudel, ISC Paris, Dec. 4-62008
Workshop on Information Visualization Software Infrastructures, with Katy Börner and Bruce Herr, Visualization Summit, Zürich, Switzerland, Jul. 72007
Information Visualization - Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation with Kerren, Chris North and John Stasko, Seminar 07221, Dagstuhl, Germany, May 28-Jun 12007
Workshop on Information Visualization Software Infrastructures, with Katy Börner, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Oct. 9.04

5.  Funded Projects

5.1  International

Google Research AwardInformation Visualization for the People11-12
European CENDARICollaborative European Digital and Archival Resource Infrastructure11-15
European FET-Open CAVisMaster: Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age. European project to organize the European Research on Visual Analytics08-10
MSR-INRIAReActivity: reflect upon, interact with and improve the research processes07-10
European TMRPAVR: Plate form for Animation and Virtual Reality97-01

5.2  French

Equipex DigiscopeCollaborative interaction with complex data and computation.11-20
ANR TARANISTechnologies for the Appraisal of Risks through Animation and Simulation. with "Mathématique Appliquée S.A." (MASA), ESRI-France and LRI/INRIA. Funding: 118K€06-09
ANR AutographAnalysis and visualization of the Auto-organization process of online social communities. with France Telecom, LIAFA Univ. Paris VII, LIMSI, Univ. Paris XI. Funding: 103K€/670K€05-08
ANR WebContentsSemantic Web Platform, Associates: about 30 industrial and academic laboratories. Funding: 58k€/2M€05-08
ANR SEVENClassification and Visualization for Business Intelligence . Associates: EDF (Electricité de France), Ceremade Univ. Paris XII, LIMSI Univ. Paris XI. Funding: 110K€/440K€05-08
ANR MicrobiogenomicsOptimal extraction of pertinent informations from complex and heterogeneous data provided by exhaustive genomic comparisons Associates: Biology laboratories IGM and MIG from Univ Paris XIII, Bioinformatics group of LRI; Univ Paris XIII and INRA. Funding: 80K€/410K€05-08
CNRS MillefeuilllesAnalysis and Visualization of the History of the French Central Institutions Associates: National Archives, Univ. Paris I, Ecole des Chartes.04-06
CNPq/INRIA EDGEEvaluation methods, Design Guidelines and Environments for Virtual Reality and Information Visualization Techniques. Associates: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Allegre, Brazil), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and MErLIn group INRIA05-08

6.  Ph.D. Supervision

Jeremy BoyVisualization of Open Data for the masses (co-supervision with Françoise Detienne)11-14
Charles PerinDynamic Data Visualization (co-supervision with Frédéric Vernier, LIMSI)11-14
Yvonne JansenTangible Visualization (co-supervision with Pierre Dragicevic, INRIA)11-14
Samuel HuronVisualization of Complex Time-Related Data11-14
Nicolas HeulotVisualization and Interaction for Exploration of High-Dimensional Data (co-supervision with Michael Aupetit, CEA)10-13
Benjamin BachVisualization of Ontologies (co-supervision with Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA)10-13
Wael KhemiriData-intensive interactive workflows for visual analytics (co-supervision with Ioana Manolescu, INRIA and Véronique Benzaken, Univ. Paris-Sud)08-11
Nathalie HenryVisualization of Social Networks (co-supervision with Peter Eades, Univ. of Sydney)04-08
Mohammad GhoniemReal time visualization for debugging constraint based systems00-05
Pierre DragicevicMultiple Input Devices and Interaction97-99 00-04

7.  Post Doctorate Fellows

André SpritzerPhD at UFRGS (Porto Allegre)12-13
Romain VuillemotUniversité de Lyon.11-12
Franck VidalUniversity of Leeds. AVENIR Project10-11
Nadia BoukhelifaUniveristy of Leeds. ReActivity Project09-10,11-12
Fanny ChevalierUniversité de Bordeaux 1, ReActivity Project08-09
Tomer MoscovichBrown University, ReActivity Project08-09
Stéphane HuotUniversité de Nantes, Autograph Project07
Niklas ElmqvistChalmers University of Technology, Sweden07-08
Nghi Do-ThanhCan Tho University, Viet-Nam06-08
Howard GoodellUniversity of Massachusetts at Lowell06-07
Tian FengUniversity of Singapore03
Domingo Martin PerandrèsUniversity of Granada, Spain00-01
Jairo RochaUniversity of Baleares, Spain01

8.  Professional Activities

8.1  Positions in Professional Societies

8.2  Program Committee Member

8.3  Book Reviewing

  • Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2000
  • Addison Wesley 1995-2004

8.4  Journals Reviewing

  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2011)
  • Interacting with Computers (Elsevier) 2010
  • Coordinator of the special issue “Visualization for Digital Libraries” of the “Document Numérique” Journal with Eric Lecolinet
  • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
  • Information Visualization Journal, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Software Practice and Experience
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications special issue
  • Non-Photorealistic Rendering (July/August 2003)
  • Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
  • SPRINGER International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society
  • Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum
  • Revue de l’Interaction Homme Machine
  • Document Numérique, Hermes

8.5  Conference Reviewing

  • EuroVA 2011-2012
  • EuroVis (Eurographics) 2007-2012
  • IEEE ICDE 2012
  • ACM EICS 2011-2012
  • ACM CHI 2000-2012
  • ACM Siggraph Asia 2011
  • ACM Siggraph 2006,2008-2011
  • Eurographics 2002-2004, 2011
  • Graphics Interface 2008
  • ACM IUI 1999, 2003
  • ACM-UIST 2002-2010
  • ACM Multimedia 2002
  • ACM DIS 2002
  • ECOOP 1999
  • IHM 1997-2010

9.  Invited Talks

  • Explorer les corpus : vue d’ensemble et navigation dans de larges corpus documentaires, EHESS Paris, Mar. 5
  • Visualisation interactive de réseaux sociaux : dernières avancées et défis, ISC Lyon, Feb. 2012
  • InfoVis/DataViz: Donner du sens à la révolution Big Data, Microsoft TechDays, Paris, Feb. 2012
  • Advances in Social Network Visualization : University of Kent, School of Computing Seminar, Jan. 2012
  • Data Visualisation, visualisation d'information : un nouveau langage visuel. ENSAD, Paris. Jan. 2012
  • Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization. SIGCHI Toulouse, Dec. 2011
  • Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization. Tufts CS Colloquium, Dec. 2011
  • Visualisation Exploratoire de réseaux sociaux : avancées récentes et défis: Institut Farman, Nov. 2011.
  • Visualisation d'information et SHS, Conférence-démo ENS Lyon, Apr. 2011.
  • Infrastructure and Evaluation Aspects of Visual Analytics: Keynote presentation, Dagstuhl Seminar on Scalable Visual Analytics, Nov 2010
  • Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization: Keynote presentation, PacificVis, Taipei, Taiwan 2010
  • Visualizing Networks using Adjacency Matrices: Progresses and Challenges: keynote talk at IEEE CAD/Graphics2009, Aug. 20, Yellow Mountains, China 2009
  • Visualizing Social Networks using Hybrid Matrix/Node-Link Representations: Summer Course on Information Visualization, Pekin University, Beijing, August 17th 2009
  • Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization: Summer Course on Information Visualization, Pekin University, Beijing, August 19th 2009
  • Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization: Keynote presentation, CHItaly, Rome, June 18th 2009
  • A Tour of Visual Analytics Research in Europe: Workshop on Information Visualization, NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan 2008
  • Visualizing Social Networks using Hybrid Matrix/Node-Link Representations: Workshop on Information Visualization, NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan 2008
  • WikipédiaViz : voir pour croire et savoir : Invited presentation at the Wikipédia Colloque 2007, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, Oct. 20th
  • Visualizing and Navigating Wikipedia-Size Networks: Invited presentation at the University of Toronto, Canada, Apr. 24th 2007
  • Visualizing and Navigating Wikipedia-Size Networks: Invited presentation at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA, Apr. 27th 2007
  • Matrix Reordering Survey: Invited presentation at the University of Maryland; College Park, USA, Oct. 20 2006
  • Social Networks with Matrices: Invited presentation for the workshop of the French Statistical Society « Visualisation * statistique :du PDA à l’écran géant » IRISA, Rennes.Jan. 2006
  • Rencontres 2005 du Pôle Méthodologique « Analyse des Données Relationnelles — EHESS-INED »: Nathalie Henry, Jean-Daniel Fekete 2005
  • Editions de manuscrits Aurèle Crasson and Jean-Daniel Fekete
  • Ecole thématique ITEM/IMEC : Critique génétique : manuscrits, écriture, invention, Abbaye D’Ardenne, Caen, Sep 2004 2004
  • Les leçons tirées des deux compétitions de visualisation d'information Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant Invited talk in Proceedings of the 16th French Speaking Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IHM 2004), Namur, Belgium, Sep. 2004, p. 7-12 2004
  • Annotation collaborative en ligne de l’archive manuscrite Jean-Daniel Fekete Séminaire général 2003-2004 de l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM), May 2004 http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/index.php?res=personnes&idpers=146 2004
  • Publication numérique et analyse de manuscrits anciens (Digital Publication and Analysis of old manuscripts)
  • Conférence Fédérative sur le Document CFD'02, Hammamet-Tunisia 20-23 Oct 2002 2002
  • Animation et rendu non réaliste :Tour d'horizon et perspectives (Non Realistic Animation and Rendering: state of the art and perspectives), French Computer Graphics Conference, Grenoble, France Dec 2000
  • Les nouvelles frontières de l’animation, Professional Animation Meeting in Angoulême, France Nov 2000

10.  Teaching

  • Information Visualization, Univ. Paris-Sud, Master course, 2011-2012
  • Information Visualization, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Graduate course of 12 hours, 2009-2010
  • Information Visualization, Polytech Paris-Sud, Graduate course of 24 hours, 2009-2010
  • Information Visualization, Université d’Orsay, Graduate course of 24 hours, 2003-2007
  • Information Visualization, University of Maryland at College Park, graduate course of 45 hours, 2002
  • Human Computer Interaction, 35h at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 1996-2001
  • Interface building tools, Ecole d’été Interaction Homme-Machine, 1997
  • Advanced Interaction for Modeling Curves and Surfaces, DEA (Master Course) of Nantes, 12h, 1998-2001
  • Computer System Administration, 35h of courses and lab. at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 1999-2001
  • C++, 35h at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 1996-1998
  • Computer Networks, 35h at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 1996-1998

11.  PhD Defense Committees

  • Guillaume Artigan, "Visualisation Multi-Echelle de Graphes Clusterisés", Université de Montpellier 2, Apr. 2 2012
  • Jean Simard, "Collaboration haptique étroitement couplée pour la déformation moléculaire interactive", Université Paris-Sud, Mar. 2012
  • Adrienne Tankeu Choitat, "Approches outillées pour le développement des systèmes interactifs intégrant les aspects sûreté de fonctionnement et utilisabilité", université de Toulouse, Dec. 2011.
  • Jing Li, "Analysis of the Perception of Graphical Encodings for Information Visualization", Eindhoven University of Technology, Jan. 2011
  • Romain Vuillemot, « Un cadre de conception pour la visualisation d'information interactive », INSA de Lyon, Dec. 2010
  • Danny Holten, "Visualization of Graphs and Trees for Software Analysis", Eindhoven University of Technology, Jun. 2009
  • Olivier Christmann, « Navigation dans de grands ensembles non structues de documents visuels », University of Nancy, Oct. 7 2008
  • Marc Damez, « De l’apprentissage artificiel pour l’apprentissage humain : de la récolte de traces à la modélisation utilisateur », University Paris 6, Sep. 18 2008
  • Pan Qing; « Techniques d'interactions mixtes isotonique et élastique pour la sélection 2D et la navigation / manipulation 3D », University of Lille, Dec. 19th 2008
  • Maurizio Rigamonti : A Framework for Structuring Multimedia Archives and for Browsing Efficiently Through Multimodal Links, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2008
  • Davis Da Costa : Visualisation et fouille interactive de données à base de points d'intérêt, Univ. de Tours. 2007
  • Pierre Salom : Visualisation interactive de données volumiques texturées pour la détection supervisée de failles en imagerie sismique, Univ. de Bordeaux. 2007
  • Eric Barboni: Méthodes formelles pour les composants logiciels appliquées aux systèmes interactifs critiques (Formal Methods for Software Components Applied to Critical Interactive Systems), Univ. Toulouse 1 2006
  • Greg Ross : An Algorithmic Framework for Visualising and Exploring Multidimensional Data, Univ. of Glasgow. 2006
  • Mohammad Ghoniem, Ecole des Mines de Nantes 2005
  • Stéphane Huot, Ecole des Mines de Nantes 2005
  • Pierre Dragicevic Ecole des Mines de Nantes 2004
  • Mickael Baron Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aéronautique 2003
  • David Bourguignon, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, projet iMAGIS, laboratoire GRAVIS 2002
  • Alexandre Topol, Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris 2002
  • Laurent Robert, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications Paris, Annotation et visualisation interactives de documents hypermédias 2001
  • Stuart Pook, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications Paris , Interaction et contexte dans les interfaces zoomables 2001
  • Guillaume Texier, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aéronautique , Conception et développement graphique interactif d'application spécialisée de conception 2000
  • Cédric Dumas, Universitée de Lille, Laboratoire Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, Un modèle d'interaction 3D : Interaction Homme-Machine et Homme-Machine-Homme dans les interfaces 3D pour le TCAO synchrone 1999
  • Guillaume Patry, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aéronautique , Contribution à la Conception du Dialogue Homme-Machine dans les Applications Graphiques Interactives de Conception Technique : le système GIPSE. 1999

12.  Software

  • GeneaQuilt, with A. Bezerianos, P. Dragicevic, J. Bae and B. Watson, 2010
  • WikiReactive, with N. Boukhelifa, F. Chevalier and X, Li, 2010
  • GraphDice, with A. Bezerianos, F. Chevalier, P. Dragicevic, N. Elmqvist, 2010
  • ScatterDice, with Niklas Elmqvist. 2009
  • ZAME: the Zoomable Adjacency Matrix Explorer, with Niklas Elmqvist, Howard Goodell, Thanh-Nghi Do and Nathalie Henry. 2008
  • Touchstone Runtime Platform (touchstone.lri.fr), with Caroline Appert and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, A Java system for designing and running controlled experiments 2007
  • The Infovis Toolkit A Java/Swing Toolkit for Information Visualization 2003—2006
  • Glite A small fast 2D Scene Graph Management Toolkit in Java using OpenGL/JOGL for rendering. 2006
  • Concordance A C++ program to compute and visualize similarities between textual documents. 2003
  • Manuscript A C program to read large digitized texts using an interactive fisheye view. 2003
  • Agile2D with Jon Meyer and Benjamin Bederson, An implementation of Java2D built using the OpenGL API. 2003
  • MillionVis (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis), An information visualization system to interactively visualize millions of items 2002
  • Aoadymppac (contraintes.inria.fr/OADymPPaC/), An information visualization toolkit to monitor the execution of constraint oriented programs 2001
  • Svgl with Stéphane Conversy (www.lri.fr/~conversy/svgl), A renderer of SVG images using the OpenGL API for hardware accelerated graphics 2001
  • Compus (insitu.lri.fr/~fekete/compus/), A visualization system for medium-size XML corpora 2000
  • ICon with Pierre Dragicevic (www.emn.fr/dragicevic/ICon) , A Java system for configuring and managing multiple input devices from interactive applications 1999
  • Excentric Labels (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/excentric) , A dynamic labeling technique for information visualization 1998
  • Tei2latex (www.tei-c.org/Software/tei2latex-0.1k.tar.gz), a perl system to translate from the SGML DTDs TEI to the LaTeX text formater 1997
  • WWL, a Xt/Motif Widget Wrapper Library 1995
  • The Tic Tac Toon system, A professional system for traditional animation 1995
  • The X Television Toolkit (with several other authors), An X11 Toolkit 1991
  • CSKIM with R. Dumeur, C. Consel, A. Deutsch), An extended dialect of Scheme 1989
  • Genese (with R. Dumeur, J.-A. Le Borgne), An expert system generator based on visually rich representations 1989