Kwan-Liu Ma is a distinguished professor of computer science at
the University of California, Davis, where he leads VIDI Research Group.
Professor Ma received his PhD degree in computer science from
the University of Utah in 1993. His research interests include
visualization, computer graphics, human computer interaction, and
machine learning. For his significant research accomplishments,
Professor Ma has received many recognitions, among others the NSF
PECASE award in 2000, IEEE Fellow 2012, the IEEE VGTC Visualization
Technical Achievement Award in 2013. the IEEE Visualization Academy
in 2019, and ACM Fellow in 2024. He has served as papers co-chair
for SciVis, InfoVis, EuroVis, PacificVis, and Graph Drawing, and
on the editorial board of IEEE TVCG (2007-2011) and IEEE CG&A (2007-2019). 
Professor Ma presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal
of Visual Informatics, and the Journal of Computational Visual Media,
and ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. Contact him
via email: ma@cs.ucdavis.edu.