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Klaus Mueller
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Director, Visual Analytics and Imaging (VAI) Lab
Liaison, SUNY Korea CS Program
Interim Chair, Department of Tech and Society

Center for Visual Computing
Computer Science Department
Stony Brook University - State University of New York

Contact: mueller@cs.stonybrook.edu

Quick Bio

I received a PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University in 1998. I am currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University and I am also a senior scientist at the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Lab. I currently serve as the acting chair of the Department of Tech and Society. From 2012-2015, I served as the founding chair of the Computer Science Department at SUNY Korea and I was also VP for Academic Affairs and Finance at SUNY Korea for two years. My current main research interests are visual analytics, explainable AI, machine learning and data science, human-centered responsible AI, fairness, belief modeling and personalized communication, virtual and augmented reality and computational and medical imaging. I won the US National Science Foundation Early Career award in 2001, the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity in 2011, and the Meritorious Service Certificate and the Golden Core Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 2016. In 2018 I was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors. To date, I have authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 15,000 times. I am a frequent speaker at international conferences, have organized or participated in 18 tutorials on various topics, chaired the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2009, was the elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VGTC) from 2012-2015, and served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2019-2022. I am a Fellow of the IEEE. (Please see here for a bio in the third person).

Research Interests
     
research word art Visual analytics -- Visualization, visual data science, visual storytelling, explainable AI, infovis, HCI
Human-centered responsible AI -- Fairness, bias, belief modeling, and personalized communication
Computational imaging -- Computed tomography, low-dose, GAN-synthesis, GPU-acceleration
Volume visualization -- Medical and scientific visualization, multivalued data w/geo-reference
Virtual reality -- Virtual, augmented, mixed reality, display walls, immersive visualization
Cognitive computer graphics -- Color, texture, details, points, perception, cognition, semiotics
Filters and grids -- Sampling, hexagonal amd body-centerered lattices, extensions to N-D
Eyetracking -- Visualization for eye tracking data, acquisition, applications
Natural phenomena -- Simulation, urban security applications,GPU-acceleration
Face recognition (this is no longer an active research topic)
All my publications via Google Scholar

Recent Developments

 

 
Stars of CSE 564 Spring 2025: Check out this playlist for videos of the best projects of this year's grad visualization course
Five accepted papers at IEEE VIS 2025!!
  MisVisFix: An Interactive Dashboard for Detecting, Explaining, and Correcting Misleading Visualizations using Large Language Models with Amit Kumar Das
  What is the Color of Serendipity? Investigating the Use of Language Models for Semantically Resonant Color Generation with Shahreen Salim and Tanzir Pial
  Charts-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Visualization Literacy Through Structured Data Extraction with Amit Kumar Das and Mohammad Tarun
  Semantic Pathway: An Interactive Visualization of Hidden States and Token Influence in LLMs with Mithilesh Singh
  XplainAct: Visualization for Personalized Intervention Insights with Yanming Zhang and Krishnakumar Hegde
Two recently accepted papers in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
  CausalChat: Interactive Causal Model Development and Refinement Using Large Language Models with Yanming Zhang, Akshith Kotha, and Eric Papenhausen
  Into the Void: Mapping the Unseen Gaps in High Dimensional Data with Xinyu Zhang, Tyler Estro, Geoff Kuenning. and Erez Zadok
Three recent papers in human-centered responsible AI: fairness, belief modeling, and personalized communication
  ACM CHI 2025: Leveraging Large Language Models for Personalized Public Messaging with Amit Kumar Das and Cindy Xiong Bearfield
  ACM CSCW 2025: FairPlay: A Collaborative Approach to Mitigate Bias in Datasets for Improved AI Fairness with Tina Behzad, Mithilesh Singh, and Anthony Ripa
  ACM CSCW 2024: Belief Miner: A Methodology for Discovering Causal Beliefs and Causal Illusions from General Populations with Shahreen Salim and Naimul Hoque

Teaching Portfolio

 

     
CSE 332 Introduction to Visualization (undergraduate level) CSE 591 GPU Programming (Special Topics course)
CSE 377 Introduction to Medical Imaging (undergraduate level) CSE 577 Medical Imaging (graduate level)
CSE 323 Human Computer Interaction (co-taught at graduate level) CSE 523 Master's Projects (continued as CSE 524)
CSE 564 Visualization and Visual Analytics (graduate level) CSE 648 Visual Analytics Seminar (every semester)
CSE 590 Data Science Fundamentals (graduate level) More... Complete set of courses

Also known as Klaus Müller (German spelling)
http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mueller