Pak Chung Wong
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999, J4-32
Richland, WA 99352
(509) 372-4764
pak.wong@pnl.gov
Brief Bio
Pak Chung Wong is a chief scientist and project manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. He has led and performed research and development on information technology and scientific computation at PNNL for over a decade. His research interests include visual analytics, predictive analytics, visualization, privacy and security, and social computing. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of New Hampshire.
Selected Publications
· Ning Lu, Z. Todd Taylor, Wei Jiang, James Correia Jr., L. Ruby Leung, and Pak Chung Wong, “Climate Change Impacts on Residential and Commercial Loads in the Western U.S. Grid,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2010. To appear.
· Pak Chung Wong, L. Ruby Leung, Ning Lu, Michael J. Scott, Patrick Mackey, Harlan Foote, James Correia Jr., Z Todd Taylor, Jianhua Xu, Stephen D. Unwin, and Antonio Sanfilippo, “Designing a Collaborative Visual Analytics System to Support Social and Technological Change Prediction,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 29, Number 5, September 2009.
· Pak Chung Wong, and Jim Thomas, “Visual Analytics: Building a Vibrant and Resilient National Science,” Information Visualization, Volume 8, Number 3, September 2009.
· Pak Chung Wong, Kevin Schneider, Patrick Mackey, Harlan Foote, George Chin Jr., Ross Guttromson, and Jim Thomas, “A Novel Visualization Technique for Electric Power Analytics,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 15, Number 3, May/June 2009.
· Pak Chung Wong, “Adding a Visualization Feature to Web Search Engines: It’s Time,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 28, Number 6, November 2008.
· Weiwei Cui, Hong Zhou, Huamin Qu, Pak Chung Wong, and Xiaoming Li, “Geometry-Based Edge Clustering for Graph Visualization,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 14, Number 6, November/December 2008.
· Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, Patrick Mackey, George Chin Jr., Heidi Sofia, and Jim Thomas, “A Dynamic Multiscale Magnifying Tool for Exploring Large Sparse Graphs,” Information Visualization, Volume 7, Number 2, June 2008.
· Pak Chung Wong, “Visual Analytics Science and Technology,” Information Visualization, Volume 6, Number 1, March 2007.
· Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, Patrick Mackey, Ken Perrine, and George Chin Jr., “Generating Graphs for Visual Analytics through Interactive Sketching,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Number 6, November-December 2006.
· Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, George Chin Jr., Patrick Mackey, and Ken Perrine, “Graph Signatures for Visual Analytics,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Number 6, November-December 2006.
· Pak Chung Wong, Stuart J. Rose, George Chin Jr., Deborah A. Frincke, Richard May, Christian Posse, Antonio Sanfilippo, and Jim Thomas, “Walking the Path--A New Journey to Explore and Discover through Visual Analytics,” Information Visualization, Volume 5, Number 4, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2006.
· Pak Chung Wong and Jim Thomas, “Visual Analytics,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 24, Number 5, September 2004.
· Pak Chung Wong, Kwong Kwok Wong, Harlan Foote, and Jim Thomas, “Global Visualization and Alignments of Whole Bacterial Genomes,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 9, Number 3, July-September 2003.
· Pak Chung Wong, “Guest Editor’s Introduction: Special Issue on Selected InfoVis 2003 Papers,” Information Visualization, Volume 2, Number 1-2, March 2003.
· Pak Chung Wong, Kwong Kwok Wong, and Harlan Foote, “Organic Data Memory Using the DNA Approach,” Communications of the ACM, Volume 46, Number 1, January 2003.
· Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, David L. Kao, L. Ruby Leung, and Jim Thomas, “Multivariate Visualization with Data Fusion,” Information Visualization, Volume 1, Number 3-4, 2002.
· Jim Thomas, Paula Cowley, Olga Kuchar, Lucy Nowell, Judi Thomson, and Pak Chung Wong, “Discovering Knowledge through Visual Analysis,” Journal of Universal Computer Science, Volume 7, Number 6, June 2001.
· Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, Ruby Leung, Dan Adams, and Jim Thomas, “Data Signatures and Visualization of Scientific Data Sets,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 20, Number 2, March 2000.
· Pak Chung Wong, “Visual Data Mining,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 19, Number 5, September 1999.
· More…
Professional Activities
· Conference Steering or Executive Committee – IEEE VisWeek 2008, IEEE VAST 2008, IEEE VAST 2007, IEEE VAST 2006
· Conference or Symposium Chair – SPIE VDA 2010, Dagstuhl Seminar on Visualization of Computer Networks 2009, SPIE VDA 2009, SPIE VDA 2008, SPIE VDA 2007, IEEE InfoVis 2006, IEEE VAST 2006, SPIE VDA 2006, SPIE VDA 2005
· Program Chair – IEEE InfoVis 2005, IEEE Vis 2003, IEEE InfoVis 2002, IEEE InfoVis 2001
· Paper Chair – IEEE VAST 2006, IEEE InfoVis 2002, IEEE Vis 2002 Case Studies, IEEE InfoVis 2001, IEEE Vis 2001 Case Studies
· Publicity Chair – IEEE VAST 2007, IEEE Vis 2000, IEEE Vis 99
· Symposium Liaison – IEEE Vis 2006, IEEE Vis 2005, IEEE Vis 2002, IEEE Vis 2001, IEEE Vis 2000
· Program Committee – IEEE VAST 2009, IEEE VAST 2008, APVIS 2007, APVIS 2006, CMV 2006, HPC 2006, APVIS 2005, CMV 2005, HPC 2005, I-KNOW'05, IEEE Vis 2005, IEEE InfoVis 2005, IEEE Vis 2004, IEEE InfoVis 2004, IEEE Vis 2003, IEEE InfoVis 2003, SPIE VDA 2003, CMV 2003, KIV03, IEEE InfoVis 2002, SPIE VDA 2002, IEEE InfoVis 2001, SPIE VDEA 2001
Editorials
· Guest Editor, Information Visualization, Vol. 6, No. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Mar 2007.
· Co-Editor, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2006, IEEE CS Press, Oct 2006.
· Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 5, IEEE CS Press, Sep/Oct 2004.
· Guest Editor, Information Visualization, Vol. 2, No. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Mar 2003.
· Co-Editor, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002, IEEE CS Press, Oct 2002.
· Co-Editor, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2001, IEEE CS Press, Oct 2001.
· Guest Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 19, No. 5, IEEE CS Press, Sep/Oct 1999.
Honors
· IEEE Certificate of Appreciation (for chairing IEEE InfoVis 2006 and IEEE VAST 2006)
· First place, InfoVis Contest, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004.
In the News
· Data Fusion
o IEEE Computer Graphics and Application (Sep 2004)
· Text Mining
o R&D Magazine (Sep 2004)
· DNA-Based Data Memory (featured in over 40 news articles worldwide)
o Forbes Magazine (Oct 24, 2005)
o New Scientist (Jan 8, 2003)
o America Association for the Advancement of Science (Jan 8, 2003)
o Science Box (Jan 8, 2003)
o Yahoo! News (Jan 8, 2003)
o Cyberpunks (Jan 8, 2003)
o ACM Tech News (Jan 8, 2003)
o PC Zone (Jan 9, 2003, in Dutch)
o Yale Law School Memo (Jan 9, 2003)
o Heise News (Jan 9, 2003, in German)
o Heise News Online (Jan 9, 2003, in German)
o Stephan in Berlin (Jan 9, 2003, in German)
o Cnews (Jan 9, 2003, in Russian)
o Rostov (Jan 9, 2003, in Russian)
o Ural (Jan 9, 2003, in Russian)
o 2000 (Jan 9, 2003, in Ukrainian)
o Frankfurter Allgemeine (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o Die Welt (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o Yahoo! Schlagzeilen (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o Focus (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o Netzeitung (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o ZDNet (Jan 10, 2003, in German)
o Index (Jan 10, 2003, in Hungarian)
o Bigmir (Jan 10, 2003, in Russian)
o Mari (Jan 10, 2003, in Russian)
o Open (Jan 10, 2003, in Russian)
o UA Prom (Jan 2003, 10, in Russian)
o SF era (Jan 11, 2003, in Romanian)
o CNI en Linea Tecnociencia (Jan 11, 2003, in Spanish)
o EE2US (Jan 11, 2003)
o Tomorrow (Jan 11, 2003, in German)
o Tomorrow Business (Jan 11, 2003, in German)
o FutureWork (Jan 12, 2003)
o Rheinbach-Szene (Jan 12, 2003, in German)
o Säkerhet & Sekretess (Jan 14, 2003, in Swedish)
o Human Sciences Research Council (Jan 16, 2003)
o BioTIK (Jan 16, 2003, in Danish)
o Nausea Manifesto (Jan 17, 2003)
o Népszabadság (Jan 17, 2003, in Hungarian)
o Rzeczpospolita (Jan 17, 2003, in Polish)
o NZOOM (Jan 19, 2003)
o Klawonn (Jan 20, 2003)
o Süddeutsche Zeitung (Jan 27, 2003, in German)
o Levsha (Jan 31, 2003, in Russian)
o Technology Research News, main article (Jan 31, 2003)
· Whole Genome Alignment
o Sciences News (April 2003)
o America Association for the Advancement of Science (2002)
o Breakthroughs (2002)
· Data Signature
o GlobalTechnoScan (2001)
o DOE Pulse (2001)
· Automatic Document Analysis (1999)
o America Association for the Advancement of Science (1999)
o Science Daily Magazine (1999)