Zaixian Xie's Home Page
Welcome! I am a Ph.D student in the department of computer science at WPI. My advisors are Prof. Matthew Ward and Prof. Elke Rundensteiner. I came from China. I was born in Ankang, Shaanxi province. It is a beautiful city that I always missed after I left for Beijing. I got my Bachelor degree and Master Degree in Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. I had been an instructor for four years at this university until I came to WPI.
Research
My research interest focuses on information visualization. I am a member of Xmdv research group and working on data quality visualization on multivariate data. Xmdv group is led by Professor Matthew Ward, having been working on the research and development of XmdvTool, a public-domain software package for the interactive visual exploration of multivariate data sets. Many exciting ideas came during our work of ten years. You can find most of them in our on-line documents.
Publications
Z. Xie, Visual Exploration of Stream Pattern Changes Using a Data-Driven Framework",
Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp 522-532, Nov.29 - Dec. 1, 2010
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6454).
(download)
D. Yang, Z. Guo, Z. Xie, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward,
"Interactive visual exploration of neighbor-based patterns in data streams",
(Demonstration Paper), SIGMOD Conference, 2010.
(download)
Z. Xie, M. O. Ward and E. A. Rundensteiner, "Visual analysis of
multivariate data streams based on DOI functions.", Technical Report TR-10-06,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science Department, 2010.
(download)
Z. Xie, M. O. Ward and E. A. Rundensteiner, "Operator-centric Design Patterns
for Information Visualization Software", Visualization and Data Analysis, Part
of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2010.
(download)
M. O. Ward, Z. Xie, D. Yang and E. A. Rundensteiner, "Quality-Aware Visual Data
Analysis", Computational Statistics Journal (in print).
Z. Xie, M. O. Ward and E. A. Rundensteiner, "Exploring Multivariate Data Streams
Using Windowing and Sampling Strategies", Interacting with temporal data
workshop at CHI 2009.
D. Yang, Z. Xie, E. A. Rundensteiner and M. O. Ward, "Managing Discoveries in
the Visual Analytics Process", ACM SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Visual
Analytics, 9(2):22-29, 2007. (download)
Z. Xie, "Towards Exploratory Visualization of
Multivariate Streaming Data", IEEE Vis/InfoVis/VAST Doctoral
Colloquium, October 2007. (download)
Z. Xie, M. O. Ward, E. A. Rundensteiner and S. Huang, " Integrating Data and
Quality Space Interactions in Exploratory Visualizations", The Fifth
International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory
Visualization (CMV 2007), pages 47-60, July 2007. (download)
E. A. Rundensteiner, M. O. Ward, Z. Xie, et al., "XmdvTool: Quality-Aware
Interactive Data Exploration", ACM SIGMOD' 2007, demonstration paper, pages
1109-1112, June 2007. (download)
Z. Xie, S. Huang, M. O. Ward and E. A. Rundensteiner, "Exploratory Visualization
of Multivariate Data with Variable Quality", IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics
Science and Technology 2006, pages 183-190, October 2006. (download)
Z. Xie, C. Wad, D. Q. Nguyen, Q. Cui, D. Yang, M. O. Ward, and E. A.
Rundensteiner, "Visual Discovery of Patterns in Census Data", IEEE Symposium on
Information Visualization 2006 Contest, October 2006.
My Past Courses
Contact
Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
Email: xiezx at cs dot wpi dot edu
Dec 22, 2010