Maoyuan Sun

Associate Professor

Psychology/Computer Science Building 467
smaoyuan@niu.edu
Website

Education

• Ph.D., Virginia Tech University
• M.Ed, Educational Technology, Peking University
• B.E., Computer Science, China Agricultural University

Areas of Interest

• Visual analytics
• Information visualization
• Human-computer interaction
• Data science

Representative Publications

Google Scholar Profile

• B. Kale, A. Clyde, M. Sun, A. Ramanathan, R. Stevens, and M. E. Papka. Chemo-Graph: Interactive Visual Exploration of the Chemical Space. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 13-24, 2023.
• B. Kale, M. Sun, and M. E. Papka. The State of the Art in Visualizing Dynamic Multivariate Networks. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 471-490, 2023.
• M. Sun, Y. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Li, J. Zhao, Y. Liu, and P. Zhong. Toward Systematic Considerations of Missingness in Visual Analytics. 2022 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), pp. 110- 114, October 2022.
• M. Sun, A. R. Shaikh, H. Alhoori, and J. Zhao. Sight Bi: Exploring Cross-View Data Relationships with Biclusters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 54-64, January 2022.
• H. Wu, M. Sun, P. Mi, N. Tatti, C. North, and N. Ramakrishnan. Interactive Discovery of Coordinated Relationship Chains with Maximum Entropy Models. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-34, February 2018.
• M. Sun, P. Mi, C. North, and N. Ramakrishnan. BiSet: Semantic Edge Bundling with Biclusters for Sensemaking. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 310-319, January 2016.

Students

Current Ph.D. Student

• Abdul Rahman Shaikh (co-advised with Hamed Alhoori)

Past Students

• Bharat Kale, Ph.D., Computer Science (co-advised with Michael Papka)
• Yue Ma, M.S., Computer Science
• Katelyn Kozinski, M.S., Computer Science 
• Courtney Bolton, M.S., Computer Science 
• Akhil Namburi, M.S., Computer Science
• David Petrovski, B.S., Computer Science
• Andrew Wisbar, B.S., Computer Science

Awards and Patents

• Best Paper Honorable Mention, EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2023
• Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS) 2022
• Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS) 2021
• G. Convertino, and M. Sun. "Method, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Medium for Visualizing Relationships between Pairs of Columns". U.S. Patent 10,977,435, issued April 2021.
• G. Convertino, M. Detweiler, and M. Sun. "Metric Recommendations in An Event Log Analytics Environment." U.S. Patent 10,061,816, issued August 2018.