VISIGRAPP Conference Chair
             
            
                    
                    
                    
	
		|   | Kadi Bouatouch IRISA, University of Rennes 1
 France
 http://people.irisa.fr/Kadi.Bouatouch
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                        Professor Kadi Bouatouch is an electronics and automatic systems engineer (ENSEM 1974). He was awarded a PhD in 1977 (University of Nancy 1, France) and a higher doctorate on computer science in the field of computer graphics in 1989 (University of Rennes 1, France). He is/was working on global illumination, lighting simulation for complex environments, GPU based rendering, HDR imaging and computer vision. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the university of Rennes 1 (France) and researcher at IRISA Rennes (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires). He was the head of the FRVSense team with
                        in IRISA. He was/is  member of the program committee of several conferences and workshops and reviewer for several Computer Graphics journals such as: The Visual Computer, ACM Trans. On Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE  Trans. On Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Trans. On image processing, etc. He also acted as a reviewer for many conferences and workshops. He has reported for several PhD theses or higher doctorates in France and abroad (USA, UK, Belgium, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Algeria, etc.). He was an associate editor for the Visual Computer Journal.
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		|   | Christophe Hurter French Civil Aviation University (ENAC)
 France
 http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~hurter/
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                        Christophe Hurter is professor at the Interactive Data Visualization group (part of the DEVI team) of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC) in Toulouse, France. He is also an associate researcher at the research center for the French Military Air Force Test Center (CReA).
His research cover information visualization (InfoVis) and human-computer interaction (HCI), especially the visualization of multivariate data in space and time. He also investigates the design of scalable visual interfaces and the development of pixel based rendering techniques. 
Throughout His career, he has been involved with se
                        veral projects including: Interactive Big Data exploration tools, graph simplifications (edge bundling), paper based interactions, augmented and virtual reality, 3D visualization...
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		|   | Helen C. Purchase Monash University
 Australia
 
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                        Helen C. Purchase is a Professor in the Department of Human-Centred Computing at Monash University. While her main interest is the evaluation of the visual presentation of graphs, she also takes part in several empirical research projects investigating a variety of different visual stimuli. She has published several papers in the area of computer science education and educational technology.
                        
                        
                        
                            
                        
                    
                
        
             
            
            
                    
                    
                    
	
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                                    Area: 
                                    Information Visualization
                                    Stefan Jänicke
 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark
 Denmark
 
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                        Stefan Jänicke is Professor of Data Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. His research interests relate to information visualization and visual analytics with a focus on text-, time- and geo-visualization, and their application in research areas like (digital) humanities, linguistics, social sciences, biology, health and sports.
                        
                        
                        
                            
                        
                    
                
                    
                    
                    
	
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                                    Area: 
                                    General Visualization Techniques
                                    Arzu Coltekin
 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
 Switzerland
 
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                                    Area: 
                                    Scientific Visualization
                                    Sidonie Christophe
 Gustave Eiffel University, IGN-ENSG
 France
 https://sites.google.com/site/sidoniechristophe/home
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                    Doctoral Consortium Chair
             
            
                    
                    
                    
	
		|   | Kadi Bouatouch IRISA, University of Rennes 1
 France
 http://people.irisa.fr/Kadi.Bouatouch
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                            Brief Bio
                        
                        
                        Professor Kadi Bouatouch is an electronics and automatic systems engineer (ENSEM 1974). He was awarded a PhD in 1977 (University of Nancy 1, France) and a higher doctorate on computer science in the field of computer graphics in 1989 (University of Rennes 1, France). He is/was working on global illumination, lighting simulation for complex environments, GPU based rendering, HDR imaging and computer vision. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the university of Rennes 1 (France) and researcher at IRISA Rennes (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires). He was the head of the FRVSense team with
                        in IRISA. He was/is  member of the program committee of several conferences and workshops and reviewer for several Computer Graphics journals such as: The Visual Computer, ACM Trans. On Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE  Trans. On Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Trans. On image processing, etc. He also acted as a reviewer for many conferences and workshops. He has reported for several PhD theses or higher doctorates in France and abroad (USA, UK, Belgium, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Algeria, etc.). He was an associate editor for the Visual Computer Journal.
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