About Ivan Viola Ivan Viola Professor, Computer Science visual computing multi-scale 3D visualization modeling nanovisualization biology Professor Viola’s expertise lies in scientific visualization and visual computing. His research focuses on multiscale visualization and modeling of complex biological systems, ranging from cellular organisms to atomistic-level details. Articles Related News November 2023 The Visualization Computing Center has two papers recognized at IEEE Vis 2023 1 min read · Sun, Nov 5 2023 Awards News Two papers from KAUST's Visual Computing Center were recognized at IEEE VIS 2023, with one introducing a new method for detecting and visualizing vortex structures in 2D fluid flows, and the other presenting a framework for physicalizing biological structures as 3D-printed models. March 2022 Visiting Slovenian student relishes time at KAUST 1 min read · Tue, Mar 15 2022 News nanovisualization cryogenic electron microscopy KAUST visiting student Aljaz Bogataj, who spent three months in the NANOVIS research group, shared his impressions of work and life at KAUST. May 2021 Neural Visiolingual Editor 1 min read · Mon, May 31 2021 News Learning to Edit 3D Structural variations with Language Guidance with Neural Networks Goal: Starting from a blank slate or an initial 3D model loaded from disk, a user can iteratively refine the model by issuing commands in the form of natural language. We consider and exploit synergies between two geometric 3D application domains: furniture and whole-cell modeling Investigator: Mohamed Elhoseiny Peter Wonka Ivan Viola Jesper Tengner Dr. Ivan Viola has been promoted to the rank of Professor 1 min read · Tue, May 25 2021 News We are proudly announcing that Dr. Ivan Viola has been promoted to the rank of Professor. February 2021 Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian Joins the Nanovisualization Research Group 1 min read · Tue, Feb 2 2021 News visualization computer graphics virtual reality We are proudly announcing that Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian has joined the Nanovisualization Research Group as a Research Scientist working with Professor Ivan Viola. His main research interests are Visualization & Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction & Virtual Reality, and Microarchitecture. Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian has also worked in the industry as an R&D Consultant for a start-up that develops VR applications meant to ease chronic pain and a graphics programmer for a game studio. January 2021 First 3D Visualizations of SARS-CoV-2 Cryo-EM Tomography Data 1 min read · Sun, Jan 31 2021 News visual computing Computer science Together with our partners from Tsinghua University and Nanographics, our group has succeeded in depicting the first 3D visualizations of Cryo-EM microscopy tomography directly from the data. We are advancing the technology to allow for clear, noise-free visualization of this challenging data modality. Once we succeed with that our next challenge is to integrate such 3D visualization into the structural modeling process. Stay tuned! November 2020 Peering under the hood of SARS-CoV-Two 1 min read · Sun, Nov 8 2020 News visual computing Computer science COVID-19 Microscope and protein data are incorporated into an easy-to-use-and-update tool that can model an organism’s 3D appearance. October 2020 Three papers presented at IEEE VIS 2020 authored by the Nanovisualization group at KAUST 1 min read · Thu, Oct 22 2020 News Three papers presented at IEEE VIS 2020 authored by the Nanovisualization group at KAUST! 1. Our new 3D rapid modeling technique for creating mescoscale models, developed together with Scripps Research, Nanographics, and TU Wien, Austria: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030415 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9224865 2. Privacy-preserving volume rendering technique developed in collaboration with TU Wien, Austria and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030436 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9222562/ 3. Invited TVCG paper developed in collaboration The development of a new 3D visualization technique for In-Silico Design for DNA-Nanotechnology 1 min read · Thu, Oct 22 2020 News The Nanovisualization group at KAUST has collaborated with AIT and TU Wien, Austria and Imperial College London, UK on the development of a new 3D visualization technique for In-Silico Design for DNA-Nanotechnology. This work is published in NAR: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa593. For more information see the publication page at nanovis.org Dr. Ciril Bohak Joins the Visual Computing Center 1 min read · Mon, Oct 12 2020 News computer graphics data visualisation We are proudly announcing that Dr. Ciril Bohak has joined VCC as a Postdoctoral researcher of Computer Science in October, 2020. Ciril Bohak is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His main research interests are Computer Graphics, Data Visualization, and Game Technology. His current research includes real-time medical and biological volumetric data visualization on the web, visualization of geodetic data (LiDAR and orthophoto) and high-energy Prof. Ivan Viola acts as Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Chair 1 min read · Mon, Oct 12 2020 News Prof. Ivan Viola will act as the Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Chair in the upcoming 42nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics - Eurographics 2021 - that will take place on May 3 − 7, 2021. Eurographics 2021 is a unique platform for the computer graphics community to showcase the latest techniques and educational work, and to explore new trends and ideas. The Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Program will showcase innovative research in Computer Graphics and related areas. Participants have been invited to submit new ideas and encouraged in all forms of research September 2020 Meet KAUST prospective student: Feng Liang 1 min read · Mon, Sep 7 2020 News artificial intelligence computer graphics Feng Liang is a computer science and engineering graduate who will join KAUST from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Feng will join the University this fall as a M.S. candidate and member of the KAUST Nanovisualization Research Group under the supervision of Professor Ivan Viola. July 2020 Making the invisible, visible 2 min read · Fri, Jul 10 2020 News visual computing multi-scale 3D visualization SARS-CoV-2 visualization COVID-19 As bioscience and medicine progress, we are now able to live with diseases, which were once a death sentence. And we are rapidly discovering new interactions at the microscopic level that give us insight into the engines of life. However, as research gets more complicated, the layperson gets left further and further behind. Even those who trust the work of scientists can feel overwhelmed when attempting to read the latest research. May 2020 Modeling in the Time of COVID-19: Statistical and Rule-based Mesoscale Models 1 min read · Wed, May 6 2020 News visualization computer graphics bioinformatics We present a new technique for rapid modeling and construction of scientifically accurate mesoscale biological models. Resulting 3D models are based on few 2D microscopy scans and the latest knowledge about the biological entity represented as a set of geometric relationships. Our new technique is based on statistical and rule-based modeling approaches that are rapid to author, fast to construct, and easy to revise. From a few 2D microscopy scans, we learn statistical properties of various structural aspects, such as the outer membrane shape, spatial properties and distribution characteristics September 2019 Prof. Ivan Viola acts as Eurovis 2020 Full Papers Chair 1 min read · Thu, Sep 26 2019 News nanovisualization visualization visual computing Prof. Ivan Viola will act as the Eurovis 2020 Full Papers Chair in the upcoming joint conferences Eurographics and Eurovis 2020. For the first time, the two conferences Eurographics and Eurovis (EGEV) will run together, as a single event, to be hosted in Norrköping, Sweden from May 25th-29th, 2020. The NANOVIS team wins the 1st Place in Graph Drawing Contest 2019 1 min read · Thu, Sep 26 2019 News visualization graph drawing The NANOVIS team has won the 1st Place in Graph Drawing Contest 2019 under the category of "Creative Topic #2 Meal Ingredients" on their graph "Worldmap of Food". The contest took place in the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD'19) that was held from September 17 to 20, 2019 in Průhonice/Prague, Czechia. Check the full poster: Three papers with contributions from the NANOVIS team will be presented at IEEE VIS 1 min read · Wed, Sep 25 2019 News visualization Three papers with contributions from the NANOVIS team will be presented at IEEE VIS 2019 that will be held from 20 to 25 October 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. Multi-Scale Procedural Animations of Microtubule Dynamics Based on Measured Data ScaleTrotter: Illustrative Visual Travels across Negative Scales Data-aware Continuous Colormap Refinement for 2D Scalar Field Visualization IEEE VIS 2019 is the premier forum for advances in visualization for academia, government, and industry. This week-long event brings together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in visualization. February 2019 Professor Ivan Viola Joins the Visual Computing Center 1 min read · Wed, Feb 13 2019 Spotlight News visualization visual computing We are proudly announcing that Professor Ivan Viola has joined VCC as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in November, 2018. He is establishing the Nano-visualization Research Group as a part of the Visual Computing Center. Prof. Viola has a master and Ph.D. from TU Wien in Austria. He has received a series of honors and recognition for his contribution to computing visualization such as the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2016 for the Best Technical Solution, and the 1st Place Eurographics Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2013. Prof. Viola was attracted to KAUST for November 2018 Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring 1 min read · Wed, Nov 21 2018 News visual computing visualization Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring scientific staff on the levels of Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Graduate Student. Follow the links to apply for the respective position: Research Scientist position Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student
The Visualization Computing Center has two papers recognized at IEEE Vis 2023 1 min read · Sun, Nov 5 2023 Awards News Two papers from KAUST's Visual Computing Center were recognized at IEEE VIS 2023, with one introducing a new method for detecting and visualizing vortex structures in 2D fluid flows, and the other presenting a framework for physicalizing biological structures as 3D-printed models.
Visiting Slovenian student relishes time at KAUST 1 min read · Tue, Mar 15 2022 News nanovisualization cryogenic electron microscopy KAUST visiting student Aljaz Bogataj, who spent three months in the NANOVIS research group, shared his impressions of work and life at KAUST.
Neural Visiolingual Editor 1 min read · Mon, May 31 2021 News Learning to Edit 3D Structural variations with Language Guidance with Neural Networks Goal: Starting from a blank slate or an initial 3D model loaded from disk, a user can iteratively refine the model by issuing commands in the form of natural language. We consider and exploit synergies between two geometric 3D application domains: furniture and whole-cell modeling Investigator: Mohamed Elhoseiny Peter Wonka Ivan Viola Jesper Tengner
Dr. Ivan Viola has been promoted to the rank of Professor 1 min read · Tue, May 25 2021 News We are proudly announcing that Dr. Ivan Viola has been promoted to the rank of Professor.
Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian Joins the Nanovisualization Research Group 1 min read · Tue, Feb 2 2021 News visualization computer graphics virtual reality We are proudly announcing that Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian has joined the Nanovisualization Research Group as a Research Scientist working with Professor Ivan Viola. His main research interests are Visualization & Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction & Virtual Reality, and Microarchitecture. Dr. Alexandre A. Kouyoumdjian has also worked in the industry as an R&D Consultant for a start-up that develops VR applications meant to ease chronic pain and a graphics programmer for a game studio.
First 3D Visualizations of SARS-CoV-2 Cryo-EM Tomography Data 1 min read · Sun, Jan 31 2021 News visual computing Computer science Together with our partners from Tsinghua University and Nanographics, our group has succeeded in depicting the first 3D visualizations of Cryo-EM microscopy tomography directly from the data. We are advancing the technology to allow for clear, noise-free visualization of this challenging data modality. Once we succeed with that our next challenge is to integrate such 3D visualization into the structural modeling process. Stay tuned!
Peering under the hood of SARS-CoV-Two 1 min read · Sun, Nov 8 2020 News visual computing Computer science COVID-19 Microscope and protein data are incorporated into an easy-to-use-and-update tool that can model an organism’s 3D appearance.
Three papers presented at IEEE VIS 2020 authored by the Nanovisualization group at KAUST 1 min read · Thu, Oct 22 2020 News Three papers presented at IEEE VIS 2020 authored by the Nanovisualization group at KAUST! 1. Our new 3D rapid modeling technique for creating mescoscale models, developed together with Scripps Research, Nanographics, and TU Wien, Austria: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030415 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9224865 2. Privacy-preserving volume rendering technique developed in collaboration with TU Wien, Austria and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030436 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9222562/ 3. Invited TVCG paper developed in collaboration
The development of a new 3D visualization technique for In-Silico Design for DNA-Nanotechnology 1 min read · Thu, Oct 22 2020 News The Nanovisualization group at KAUST has collaborated with AIT and TU Wien, Austria and Imperial College London, UK on the development of a new 3D visualization technique for In-Silico Design for DNA-Nanotechnology. This work is published in NAR: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa593. For more information see the publication page at nanovis.org
Dr. Ciril Bohak Joins the Visual Computing Center 1 min read · Mon, Oct 12 2020 News computer graphics data visualisation We are proudly announcing that Dr. Ciril Bohak has joined VCC as a Postdoctoral researcher of Computer Science in October, 2020. Ciril Bohak is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His main research interests are Computer Graphics, Data Visualization, and Game Technology. His current research includes real-time medical and biological volumetric data visualization on the web, visualization of geodetic data (LiDAR and orthophoto) and high-energy
Prof. Ivan Viola acts as Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Chair 1 min read · Mon, Oct 12 2020 News Prof. Ivan Viola will act as the Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Chair in the upcoming 42nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics - Eurographics 2021 - that will take place on May 3 − 7, 2021. Eurographics 2021 is a unique platform for the computer graphics community to showcase the latest techniques and educational work, and to explore new trends and ideas. The Eurographics 2021 Full Papers Program will showcase innovative research in Computer Graphics and related areas. Participants have been invited to submit new ideas and encouraged in all forms of research
Meet KAUST prospective student: Feng Liang 1 min read · Mon, Sep 7 2020 News artificial intelligence computer graphics Feng Liang is a computer science and engineering graduate who will join KAUST from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Feng will join the University this fall as a M.S. candidate and member of the KAUST Nanovisualization Research Group under the supervision of Professor Ivan Viola.
Making the invisible, visible 2 min read · Fri, Jul 10 2020 News visual computing multi-scale 3D visualization SARS-CoV-2 visualization COVID-19 As bioscience and medicine progress, we are now able to live with diseases, which were once a death sentence. And we are rapidly discovering new interactions at the microscopic level that give us insight into the engines of life. However, as research gets more complicated, the layperson gets left further and further behind. Even those who trust the work of scientists can feel overwhelmed when attempting to read the latest research.
Modeling in the Time of COVID-19: Statistical and Rule-based Mesoscale Models 1 min read · Wed, May 6 2020 News visualization computer graphics bioinformatics We present a new technique for rapid modeling and construction of scientifically accurate mesoscale biological models. Resulting 3D models are based on few 2D microscopy scans and the latest knowledge about the biological entity represented as a set of geometric relationships. Our new technique is based on statistical and rule-based modeling approaches that are rapid to author, fast to construct, and easy to revise. From a few 2D microscopy scans, we learn statistical properties of various structural aspects, such as the outer membrane shape, spatial properties and distribution characteristics
Prof. Ivan Viola acts as Eurovis 2020 Full Papers Chair 1 min read · Thu, Sep 26 2019 News nanovisualization visualization visual computing Prof. Ivan Viola will act as the Eurovis 2020 Full Papers Chair in the upcoming joint conferences Eurographics and Eurovis 2020. For the first time, the two conferences Eurographics and Eurovis (EGEV) will run together, as a single event, to be hosted in Norrköping, Sweden from May 25th-29th, 2020.
The NANOVIS team wins the 1st Place in Graph Drawing Contest 2019 1 min read · Thu, Sep 26 2019 News visualization graph drawing The NANOVIS team has won the 1st Place in Graph Drawing Contest 2019 under the category of "Creative Topic #2 Meal Ingredients" on their graph "Worldmap of Food". The contest took place in the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD'19) that was held from September 17 to 20, 2019 in Průhonice/Prague, Czechia. Check the full poster:
Three papers with contributions from the NANOVIS team will be presented at IEEE VIS 1 min read · Wed, Sep 25 2019 News visualization Three papers with contributions from the NANOVIS team will be presented at IEEE VIS 2019 that will be held from 20 to 25 October 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. Multi-Scale Procedural Animations of Microtubule Dynamics Based on Measured Data ScaleTrotter: Illustrative Visual Travels across Negative Scales Data-aware Continuous Colormap Refinement for 2D Scalar Field Visualization IEEE VIS 2019 is the premier forum for advances in visualization for academia, government, and industry. This week-long event brings together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in visualization.
Professor Ivan Viola Joins the Visual Computing Center 1 min read · Wed, Feb 13 2019 Spotlight News visualization visual computing We are proudly announcing that Professor Ivan Viola has joined VCC as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in November, 2018. He is establishing the Nano-visualization Research Group as a part of the Visual Computing Center. Prof. Viola has a master and Ph.D. from TU Wien in Austria. He has received a series of honors and recognition for his contribution to computing visualization such as the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2016 for the Best Technical Solution, and the 1st Place Eurographics Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2013. Prof. Viola was attracted to KAUST for
Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring 1 min read · Wed, Nov 21 2018 News visual computing visualization Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring scientific staff on the levels of Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Graduate Student. Follow the links to apply for the respective position: Research Scientist position Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student
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