EVL’s professor Marai is part of UIC’s brain research now funded by a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project incorporates brain tissue research at UIC, Northwestern University, Lurie Children’s Hospital…
Read moreEVl Professor Liz Marai’s research in visual analytics and visualization, along with her advisees has been cited in the book “Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine” published by Elsevier and authored by…
Read moreA November 27, 2018 story on the University of Illinois Cancer Center’s website profiles leading-edge cancer and computer science research being conducted by G. Elisabeta (Liz) Marai, a UIC Associate Professor of Computer Science and the…
Read moreCandidate: Pantea Habibi Date and Time: Friday, November 1, 2024; 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM Location: ERF 2068 Abstract: When interacting with large displays, virtual reality, or augmented reality, people often use mid-air gestures. During these touchless…
Read moreMaster of Design graduate student Quentin Bu presents her virtual reality performance piece “An Elegy for the Departed - an Interactive Virtual Reality+Physical Computing Typographic Performance” in EVL’s CAVE2. Friday, May 5, 2023…
Read moreCall for Papers --------------- There is widespread lack of accessibility in built environments, from roads and housing to public buildings and spaces. Such inaccessible urban infrastructure not only contributes to and further reinforces systemic…
Read moreJust as NSF cyberinfrastructure produces greater volumes and varieties of data from data storage systems, online instrumentation and major computational resources like XSEDE and Blue Waters, advanced visualization instruments serve as the…
Read moreEVL professor Mike Papka and his research students have been awarded an Honorable Mention in the EuroVis Best Paper Category for “ChemoGraph: Interactive Visual Exploration of the Chemical Space”. Co-authored by collaborators Bharat…
Read moreThis project’s purpose was to investigate the ability of virtual reality to teach music. An application was developed for the CAVE2™ and Microsoft Hololens, and their ability to teach music effectively was analyzed. Both the applications…
Read moreThe Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is led by assistant professor Debaleena Chattopadhyay of the Department of Computer Science. The HCI Lab designs computer technologies to transform human…
Read moreAssistant professor Hy Kim, director of UIC’s Human-Centered Engineering Lab will present his research: Friday 10/25/24, 1pm EVL Continuum (Room 2068 Engineering Research Facility) Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) has the potential to…
Read moreSAGE3 beta version software and documentation will be introduced next week at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC22) conference in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 13-18, 2022. The SAGE User Community is invited to attend the SC22 Birds of a Feather (BOF)…
Read moreSAGE™ software enables teams of users to manage their data in a room covered with displays, as if the room were one seamless canvas. SAGE lets users post and manipulate information, visualizations and animations. The goal of SAGE is to make it…
Read morePhD Student: Sai Priya Jyothula Committee: Dr. Andrew Johnson, Advisor and Chair Dr. Steve Jones Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Joseph Michaelis Dr. Venugopal Vasudevan (Procter and Gamble) Location: 2068 ERF Date and time: Monday, December 12, 10…
Read moreTo show medical illustrators and educators the value of virtual reality for medical training, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago mocked up a 3D skeleton, complete with body organs, including the…
Read moreParticipants fly through a close-up of a glass fissure computed in a 5-Million atom molecular dynamics nanoscale simulation. Visualization by Aaron Knoll and Michael Papka of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National…
Read moreOmegaDesk provides researchers with a powerful, easy-to-use, information-rich, cyberinfrastructure instrument in support of scientific discovery. The OmegaDesk unifies ultra-high-resolution computer-enhanced collaboration workspaces and stereoscopic…
Read moreEVL Professor Liz Marai has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications publication. As per André Stork, CG&A Editor in Chief, “IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications uniquely combines leading-edge…
Read moreTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - back when it was named University of Illinois Chicago Circle (UICC) — the UIC Alumni magazine’s Spring 2015 issue has a wonderfully nostalgic article titled…
Read moreA collaboration of the UIC, Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Design Archive (CDA), the “Chicago Design Through the Decades” project is a swift exciting journey through the history of Chicago design over the last one hundred years…
Read moreEVL researchers M. Mantovani, A. Wentzel, J. Trelles, J. Michaelis, G.E. Marai have an image of their visualization research featured on the cover of the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol 67 No 6, Nov/Dec 2023 issue. “Kiviat…
Read moreGlobal-scale cyberinfrastructure, whether sensor nets or supercomputers, is transforming the way teams of scientists and engineers study and understand complex systems - whether physical, geological, biological, environmental, or atmospheric - from…
Read moreSave the date for June 11th for the preview of the “Chicago Design Through the Decades” project on the Art ontheMART at the Merchandise Mart Chicago. A collaboration between the Chicago Design Archive and EVL and School of Design…
Read moreA connectome is a map of neural connections in the brain. In this CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment application, participants walk inside streamlines depicting the white matter fiber tracts in the brain, derived from diffusion tensor images…
Read moreSeptember 16, 2024 - The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is proud to become an Intel AI/oneAPI Center of Excellence, advancing computational science education for AI and next-generation heterogeneous programming. The Center will integrate the…
Read moreEVL alumnus Khairi Reda presents his research at EVL tech meeting: Friday, November 3, 2023, 12PM - 1PM EVL Continuum, Room 2068 ERF Towards Trustworthy Visual Analytics Abstract: Interactive visualization tools, such as Tableau, Jupyter notebooks…
Read moreThe Chicago 0,0 Riverwal AR experience provides a novel, interactive way for users to explore historical photographs sourced from museum archives. As users walk along the Chicago River, they are instructed to use their smartphone or tablet to view…
Read moreComputer Science assistant professor and EVL faculty member Fabio Miranda has been named a 2022 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). A total of 185 scientists across disciplines were selected as Kavli Fellows by a committee of NAS…
Read moreCandidate: Ashwini G. Naik Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Johnson (Advisor and Chair) Dr. Robert Kenyon (Co-Advisor) Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Nikita Soni Dr. Steve Jones (External Member - Dept. of Communication) Date and Time: Wednesday…
Read moreEVL is that connection! The Laboratory has a long and rich history in the computer graphics - visualization discipline. Founded in 1973 by co-directors Thomas A. DeFanti and Daniel J. Sandin, EVL’s foundation has been in innovation and…
Read moreIn October 2018, the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) received an equipment grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF #1828265) for a GPU-based system for College of Engineering research and education. Since that time, EVL staff…
Read moreCandidate: Arthur Nishimoto Committee: Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor Debaleena Chattopadhyay Steve Jones Wei Tang Jason Leigh (University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa) Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 Time: 4-5 PM Location: EVL Continuum, Room 2068 ERF…
Read moreStanding in front of Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora supercomputer, EVL and computer science department professor Michael E. Papka is the Featured Photo of the Spring 2023 RISE publication. Papka holds a joint appointment with UIC and is…
Read moreThe First Environmental Justice Workshop, entitled “Generating a Discussion Between Communities and Industries: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools” was held at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory's Continuum environment on…
Read moreAPLU’s Council on Academic Affairs (CAA) provosts, chief academic officers, and senior vice presidents for academic affairs of APLU member institutions and systems visited EVL for presentations and CAVE2 virtual reality experiences during…
Read moreFollowing the premiere of “Hummingbird” as part of the Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival in December 2021, the virtual reality theatrical experience was exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference…
Read moreEVL affiliated faculty member and Computer Science Assistant Professor Sidharth Kumar and his graduate students Landon Dyken and Will Usher are recognized with the Best Paper Award at the 13th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization…
Read moreHonors Faculty Fellows are individually assigned to provide personalized advising and mentoring to students. Each year, Honors College students nominate Fellows to be honored as “Fellow of the Year”s for excellence in mentoring. This…
Read more“Chicago Design Through the Decades” by UIC Design and EVL Professor Daria Tsoupikova, Sharon Oiga, and Guy Villa Jr. will be on view at Art of theMart: Friday, November 18 - Friday, December 30, 7:30 & 8:00 p.m. Best viewed on The…
Read moreThe SAGE Development Team at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently received…
Read moreSENSEI will be a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time data-acquisition, sensor-based, camera system capable of capturing 3D stereo and still images for viewing in…
Read moreProfessor Peter Doran of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) employs virtual-reality to further biological research in terrestrial environments analogous to those found on other planets, and to…
Read moreSpiderSense is a wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him. The millions of sensory receptors that cover the skin presents opportunities for conveying…
Read moreDeveloped by EVL PhD Candidate Arthur Nishimoto the CAVE2/Unity simulator is a Unity3D package for testing and development of Unity3D applications for the CAVE2™ Hybrid-Reality Environment. Using only standard Unity features (no…
Read moreHearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is a 3D narrative experience made for the effective sensory environment of the EVL’s CAVE2™ that gives voice to stories of violence and the post-traumatic stress experienced by ordinary…
Read moreIndividuals standing in the CAVE2™ System interactively fly through Earth’s galaxy to observe constellations from different viewpoints. Data is from the European Space Agency’s Tycho-2 catalog, which contains the positions and…
Read moreParticipants can explore the self-assembly of a ligated gold nanoparticle and proteins inside an ionic solution in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. Data and visualization provided by the Petr Kral Research Group at the Department of…
Read moreGoogle Street View can be considered as an online browsable dataset consisting of billions of street-level panoramic images acquired all around the world. Since 2007, the company has continuously improved and updated its global image database, now…
Read moreEVl graduate student Hal Brynteson&rtsquo;s research in fluid dynamics will be showcased in Washington, DC at the Gallery of Fluid Motion during the 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. The Gallery of Fluid Motion is a visual…
Read moreSince receiving an NSF award for SAGE3, the Smart Amplified Group Environment, in May 2020, the SAGE3 Team has been hard at work designing and developing SAGE3. An alpha version of the SAGE3 remote collaboration platform is being developed, and the…
Read moreEVL assistant professor Fabio Miranda’s IEEE VIS2023 paper entitled “ProWis: A visual approach for building, managing, and analyzing weather simulation ensembles in runtime” is recognized among the Best Papers Honorable Mention. A…
Read moreOctober 19, 2020 - - Fabio Miranda joins the EVL faculty as an assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science. Miranda interests include developing techniques that allow for the interactive visual analysis of large-scale data, combining…
Read moreThe Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Computing Research (OSCUR) will create a cohesive ecosystem of tools and resources designed to transform city data into actionable knowledge. This multi-institutional collaboration is supported by a $5…
Read moreThe “Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics” paper was accepted to IEEE VIS 2024. Curio is a framework for collaborative urban visual analytics that uses a dataflow model with multiple abstraction…
Read moreComputer Science assistant professor and EVL faculty Fabio Miranda’s research in visualization is featured in the HEBDEN BRIDGE NEWS, “Mapping cities, health and environment at UIC’s Electronic Visualization Lab”…
Read moreSeptember 2016 - Since graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1992, Lewis Siegel, a Computer Science (CS) Master of Science student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) Research Assistant, has amassed an impressive…
Read moreProject Period: October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021 September 9, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year grant to the UIC Computer Science (CS) Department’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to acquire the…
Read moreIn this application, participants view a number of 2D high-resolution images captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover, along side a 3-dimensional model of Mars in the CAVE2™. EVL’s SAGE™ (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)…
Read moreThree UIC faculty members, including Professor Daria Tsoupikova and Assistant Professor Fabio Miranda from UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), and the School of Design’s Professor Sharon Oiga, can see their work on display…
Read moreThe National Science Foundation has awarded EVL a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to build the Data Observation and Computation Collaboratory (DOCC) in the new Computer Design Research and Learning Center (CDRBC) building. The Data…
Read moreThe visualization of aleatoric uncertainty in ensemble simulations - i.e. the study of high concentrations in mixtures - provides many challenges due to the size and dimensionality of the data sets. EVL researchers have developed a web-based…
Read moreEVL-affiliated faculty and Computer Science Assistant Professor Nikita Soni’s research in human-computer interaction (HCI), along with three other researchers working in this area: Assistant Professor Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Professor Andruid…
Read moreThe growing onslaught of astronomical data available presents a great challenge. Astronomy lacks an easy-to-use and scalable way to collect and distribute expert information about objects from datasets of tens of thousands to billions of individual…
Read moreCancer has a major impact on society all around the world. It affects people of all population groups though certain groups bear more burden of cancer. Some of the contributing factors for cancer disparities are socioeconomic status, geographic…
Read moreEVL in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) hosted a satellite event for VIS2021 featuring a presentation from invited speaker Dr. Alan Keahey, VP for Data Science Visualization at Conversant Media, student lightning talks, a…
Read moreMaxine Brown (UIC PI), Andrew Johnson (UIC co-PI), Luc Renambot (UIC co-PI) Jason Leigh (University of Hawaii Manoa PI)Christopher North (Virginia Polytechnic PI) NSF Award Number: 2003800 Award Period of Performance: 05/15/2020 - 04/30/2025 Total…
Read moreEVL graduate student Hal Brynteson in collaboration with Dr. Parisa Mirbod and PhD student Abbas Moradi Bilondi (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) has been awarded an honorable mention for this year's Image of Research Competition. The Image of…
Read moreThis year, UIC Computer Science PhD students and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistants Sai Priya Jyothula and Arthur Nishimoto received an Honorable Mention in the campus’ 2022 Image of Research competition. Priya…
Read moreCapitalizing on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, which debuted on September 8, 1966, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed a social media #holodeck campaign to promote its support of cutting-edge research in virtual reality and…
Read moreOn January 25, 2022, EVL faculty member assistant professor Fabio Miranda was interviewed by Univision TV to discuss environmental contamination and the implication to Chicagoland Latino communities. According to an investigation and recent study by…
Read moreCongratulations to Mike Papka, one of nine speakers at TEDxChicago 2024: Lighting the Way to be held Friday, September 27th at Harris Theater, Millennium Park fro 3pm - 7pm. Mike holds a joint appointment as a UIC Computer Science faculty member and…
Read moreThis year, students at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering participated in the IEEE VIS 2024 Conference. Prof. Liz Marai’s students had several presentations. PhD Student…
Read moreEVL faculty and UIC Design Professor Daria Tsoupikova is featured in the Fall 2024 College Engineering RISE magazine issue. The article covers Daria’ collaboration with the Chicago Design Archive and Columbia College Chicago. The project…
Read moreThe SAGE team has been hard at work designing and developing SAGE3, the NSF-funded Smart Amplified Group Environment, which is a total rewrite of SAGE2. SAGE3 ALPHA RELEASE AND WEBSITE SAGE3 alpha version for Linux, Windows and MacOS is now…
Read moreEVL founding co-director Dan Sandin discusses his pioneering real-time video performance work created between 1975 and 1978. The virtual event includes screenings of the Electronic Visualization Events (EVE) held at the University of Illinois at…
Read moreEVL undergraduate researcher Athena Angara discussed her summer internship project with Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), “Tele-robotics to Tele-autonomous Robotics for Isotope Production,” during NVIDIA’s weekly…
Read morePh.D. Student: Ashwini G. Naik Committee Members: Dr. Nikita Soni Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Steve Jones (External Member) Dr. Robert Kenyon (Co-Advisor) Dr. Andrew Johnson (Advisor and Chair) Date and Time: May 23, 2023, 9 AM-11 AM Chicago…
Read moreSEPTEMBER 22, 2021 - The UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s (EVL) long-time collaborator, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, to start October 2021, to Enhance and Sustain…
Read moreFormer EVL student and graduate research assistant Elisa Tardini is recognized as a recipient of the Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award from the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago for her thesis entitled “Recursive…
Read moreEVL at the University of Illinois Chicago has joined Chameleon! Chameleon is a large-scale, deeply reconfigurable experimental platform built to support Computer Sciences systems research. Publicly available since 2015, Chameleon supports projects…
Read moreComputer Science and EVL faculty member G. Elisabeta Marai has been promoted to Professor Academic Year 2022. Dr. Marai’s research focuses upon visual computing and analysis, an area of computer science that handles images, 3D models, and the…
Read morePatients come to Centers for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation from all over the globe, “often with catastrophic or unusual conditions and always with great hope for an improved life ahead”. In the quest to assist these patients…
Read more“Where the sidewalk ends” in MIT News discusses how Miranda along with researchers from MIT, University of Sao Paulo, and New York University have built an open-source tool that uses aerial imagery and image-recognition to create…
Read moreWe present the design and implementation of a visual mining and analysis tool to help identify protein mutations across family structural models, and to help discover the effect of these mutations on protein function. We follow a client-server…
Read moreThis research explores a novel approach to the design of Mixed Reality (MR) applications, which combines elements from markerless and location-based Augmented Reality in order to explore new types of interaction, leveraging a spatial representation…
Read moreSAGEBoard is an electronic whiteboard for tiled touch displays that can be used locally or shared between remote collaborators. An electronic whiteboard can combine the advantages of an electronic device with the fast paced interaction provided by a…
Read moreEVL hosts Jorge Wagner as a guest speaker, presenting “Designing and Evaluating HMD-Based Immersive Analytics Environments”. Friday 10/18/24, 1pm EVL Continuum, Room 2068 (Engineering Research Facility) Abstract The potential of…
Read moreThis academic year 2023 EVL alum Mike Papka has joined UIC’s Department of Computer Science and EVL faculty as a professor, bringing years of expertise in high performance computing to campus. For nearly three decades, Papka has held the…
Read moreMAY 24, 2018 - The 1980s and beyond were a pivotal time for the digital arts media in the Midwest, and many of the women who went to school or worked in the Midwest are now chronicled in the new book “New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in…
Read moreComputer Science assistant professor and EVL affiliated faculty Nikita Soni showcases her research and the newly installed interactive spherical display housed in EVL on Friday, November 2, 2022, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Room 2036 ERF. The display…
Read moreEVL SAGE3 developers Luc Renambot and Lance Long with collaborators from the University of Hawaii Manoa and Virginia Tech present the latest advances in SAGE3 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023 held December 11-15, 2023 in San…
Read moreCAVE2™, the next-generation large-scale virtual-reality environment, is a hybrid system that combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution display walls and virtual-reality systems to create a seamless 2D / 3D environment that supports…
Read moreParticipants interactively fly around a 3D representation of Mars in the CAVE2™ System. The 3D model was originally created by EVL graduate Robert Kooima using planetary data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Viking missions and star…
Read moreMay 25, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of the first “Star Wars” movie. To celebrate the occasion, and to highlight Chicago’s unique connection to the film, the Chicago Tribune published an in-depth and…
Read moreEVL alumna (MFA 2000) and associate professor of Media Study at the University of Buffalo, Josephine Anstey continues her creative endeavors with the launch of her animated short, “Pik and Etty in Progressive Taxation” at the Yes We…
Read moreContent and application programming: Dan Sandin Content and systems programming: Robert Kooima Music and sound effects: Laurie Spiegel Driver: Tom DeFanti The virtual-reality installation “Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics” is the…
Read moreOren Safdie’s visionary play “Façade” will be performed in EVL’s Continuum, Friday February 9th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm. The program will consist of the staged reading followed by a questions & answers session with Playwright Oren…
Read moreEVL Research Experience Undergraduate (REU) and Computer Science alum (BS 2020) Jonathan Vega discusses the impact of his data visualization research. Under EVL faculty member and Computer Science associate professor G. Elisabeta Marai’s…
Read moreThe Shirley Ryan AbilityLab of Chicago worked with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago to use virtual reality to help people needing rehabilitation be more enthusiastic and energetic when doing…
Read moreProfessor Andruid Kerne joins the Department of Computer Science and EVL as incoming faculty specializing in Human Computer Interaction. Kerne comes to UIC completing his assignment to the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a "rotator" program…
Read moreA team of collaborating researchers from EVL and others from the Equitable Health Data Science Institute (EHDS) members placed 2nd out of 17 teams in the EPIC COSMOS Hackaton at UIC sponsored by the EHDS. Team members consisted of Ranga…
Read moreJANUARY 24, 2019 - Daria Tsoupikova, associate professor in the UIC School of Design and an affiliated faculty member of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) which is part of the Computer Science (CS) department, recently received a…
Read moreEVL faculty assistant professor Fabio Miranda has teamed up with researchers from UIC’s School of Public health studying environmental hazards to develop an interactive online map that illustrates the proximity of environmental hazards such as…
Read more“Hummingbird” is coming to the Chicago Children’s Theater March 24-26th. Written by Jo Catell and developed by Daria Tsoupikova, Sai Priya Jyothula, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto and Lance Long at EVL, this experience is…
Read moreThe July 2024 issue of IEEE Computing Edge magazine’ section on Data Visualization features the contrail visual computing digital twin work conducted by EVL graduate students Nafiul Nipu, and Carla Floricel, along with their advisor professor…
Read moreParticipants in the CAVE2™ System stand inside a balls-and-sticks model of a molecular chemistry dataset. The clouds represent the density of electrons around atoms. Chemistry models and simulation data are provided by Aslihan Sumer, Juliuis…
Read moreFor the last several years EVL faculty member and CS associate professor Liz Marai has been collaborating with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Iowa to develop tools to help oncologists make better…
Read moreTransforming Storytelling: Multiuser Virtual Reality Theater for Collaborative Tele-Immersive Interaction (aka “Hummignbird”) is a collaborative project between the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) of the University of Illinois…
Read moreGuadalupe Canahuate, Associate Professor from The University of Iowa presents an EVL colloquium Wednesday, November 30, 2022, Room 2068 ERF (Continuum).
Read moreFleet Commander is an interactive game developed to explore how a real-time strategy game that often relies on complex keyboard commands and mouse interactions can be transferred into a multi-user, multi-touch environment. This game attempts to…
Read moreFor the Supercomputing (SC20) Conference this year, a research community partnership was formed to design an international networking testbed using existing facilities, with several international extensions. Demonstrations and experiments were…
Read moreThe CAVE2™ System is a hybrid environment that enables users to mash-up a number of 2D and 3D images at the same time using SAGE™ software (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) developed by EVL. Users can display related digital media…
Read moreThanks to new NSF support, beginning May 2020, the SAGE team has been hard at work designing and developing SAGE3, the Smart Amplified Group Environment. This new funding enables us to take SAGE2, introduced in 2013, to a new level, integrating…
Read moreLong-time EVLer and PhD candidate Arthur Nishimoto has been recognized by the UIC College of Engineering with the 2022 Exceptional Research Promise Award. Arthur began his work with EVL in 2009 as a Research Experience Undergraduate developing…
Read moreConstruction activities for the new $117.8 million, 135,000-square-foot Computer Design Research and Learning Center to be located at 900 W. Taylor St. is underway. The CDRLC will support the Department of Computer Science’s growing student…
Read moreCandidate: Juan Trelles Trabucco Committee members: - Dr. Liz Marai - Dr. Andy Johnson - Dr. Wei Tang - Dr. Cecilia Arighi (University of Delaware) - Dr. Steven Drucker (Microsoft Research) Date/time: Aug 24th, 11 am CT Location: ERF 3036 and Zoom…
Read moreIn this application, participants view several 2-dimensional high-resolution images captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover in EVL’s CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. Using EVL’s SAGE™ (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)…
Read more“Assessing the Landscape of Toolkits, Frameworks, and Authoring Tools for Urban Visual Analytics Systems” has been accepted for publication by Science Direct (Elsevier) in the Computer Graphics 2024 Journal. In this paper, researchers…
Read moreCandidate: Sai Priya Jyothula Committee: Dr. Andrew Johnson, Advisor and Chair Dr. Steve Jones (Department of Communication) Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Joseph Michaelis Dr. Venugopal Vasudevan (Procter and Gamble) Location: 2068 ERF Date and…
Read moreEVL faculty and computer science (CS) associate professor Liz Marai in collaboration with co-investigator, CS assistant professor Xinhua Zhang are developing a computational artificial intelligence system to serve as a decision support tool for…
Read moreStarting Academic Year 23/24 visiting professor Zhiling Lan joins as faculty in the Department of Computer Science and EVL. Dr. Lan comes with significant expertise in high-performance computing and parallel/distributed systems. Prior to her tenure…
Read moreThe Goodman Theater New Stages Festival will showcase “HUMMINGBIRD” December 3-6, 2021to be held at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIC. “HUMMINGBIRD” is a multi-user theatrical performance merging live theater and…
Read moreCandidate: Juan Trelles Trabucco Date: Friday, April 29, 2022 Time: 11 am CT Committee Members: Dr. G. Elisabeta Marai, Dr. Andy Johnson, Dr. Wei Tang, Dr. Steven Drucker, Dr. Cecilia Arighi Abstract: Biomedical researchers need to search over an…
Read moreEVL alumni Tommy Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi and Mike Papka (also EVL Professor) are recognized at 2023 IEEE VIS SciVis Contest for their research in the visualization of neuronal network simulations of plasticity changes in the human brain. The…
Read moreParticipants walk through an architectural model of University of California, San Diego’s recently dedicated Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) building in the CAVE2™ System. The Graphics, Visualization and Virtual Reality…
Read moreThe George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability is an institutional partnership between Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), enabling transformative solutions for complex scientific challenges…
Read moreUIC Today covers the “Hummingbird” project, a collaboration between UIC and the Goodman Theatre that blends VR storytelling and theatrical performance with the goal of encouraging stronger theatrical engagement with a tech-savvy younger…
Read moreEVL alumna and Associate Professor in Interactive Systems at the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Maria Roussou presents her research in immersive eXtended Reality (XR): Wednesday, May…
Read moreJUNE 13, 2017 - Ryan Wolff and David Wolff, producers of the documentary web series “The Good Stuff,” recently completed a program on virtual-reality headsets, but “as awesome as the experience was,” says Ryan, “it’s…
Read moreAssistant Professor Sidhart Kumar joins the Computer Science and EVL faculty with expertise in High-Performance Computing. Kumar’s research goal is to provide a comprehensive framework for high-performance data management, critical in…
Read moreUIC Department of Computer Science Doctoral Admissions Webinar November 2nd 2022 @7 am-8:30am Chicago time (CDT) Webinar: https://tinyurl.com/uicwebinar2022 See what the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago has to…
Read moreA special screening of the Chicago Design Milestones 1920–2019 project will be exhibited on Monday, August 5 at 2pm at 150 Media Stream Chicago. The installation visualizes the evolution of Chicago design by its examination and presentation of…
Read moreJUNE 3, 2020 - While medical personnel and engineers apply their brains to finding cures and vaccines for COVID-19, it’s computers that apply their brawn to crunch the numbers and run the simulations that empower researchers’ insights…
Read moreNOVEMBER 14-17, 2022 -- SAGE3 Team members announced the release of the SAGE3 alpha version at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2022 (SC22) conference, held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 14-18, 2022…
Read moreThe International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Discovery is a CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment simulation where participants can explore the Space Station in full scale, orbiting the Earth at the current location and altitude of the…
Read moreAssistant professor Nikita Nandish Soni has joined the faculty of computer science at UIC, specializing in human-computer interaction. As affiliated EVL faculty, Dr. Soni will continue her research in designing natural user interactions for…
Read moreDespite much progress and increased interest, mixed reality applications are not yet in widespread use by the general public. Our framework, DigitalQuest, facilitates the creation of mixed reality applications, providing application designers with…
Read moreAs a demonstration of cultural heritage, participants can view 360-degree panoramic images of Medinet Habu, the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III located on the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt, in the CAVE2™ System. The 360-degree photographic…
Read moreEVL faculty member and computer science assistant professor Fabio Miranda has been researching how visual data analytics can help address different problems cities face by integrating data on different resolutions and from different sources. His…
Read moreBactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment, is a genome visualization approach developed at Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to address growing volumes of genome sequence data, specifically microbial genomes, in…
Read moreEVL faculty and Computer Science (CS) Assistant Professor Fabio Miranda (PI) and Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering (CME) Professor Sybil Derrible (co-PI) have been awarded $1.75 million NSF grant entitled: "Collaborative Research…
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $2.6 million grant to lead institution Northern Illinois University and sub-recipient the University of Illinois Chicago for classroom training and research opportunities in computational high energy…
Read moreRoberto Cesar Jr., professor/department head of Computer Science at the University of Sao Paolo and director of eScience Research Center presents his research in computer vision and image processing for urban visualization. Dr. Cesar’ invited…
Read moreOn-line, real-time audio dilation is a technique that time stretches, or slows down the tempo of audio signals as they are generated. This research focuses upon the control over incoming live audio tempo for increased intelligibility and comfort…
Read moreThe first Creative Coding Community Workshop brought together a diverse group of Chicago public high school students ranging in age from 13 to 15 to introduce students to the basics of coding, interactive 3D, typography and game design. Hosted at…
Read moreIn January 2016, Siying Li, a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University covering technology innovations for arts, contacted the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to do a story. More specifically, he…
Read moreUIC Engineering’s News promotes the new and very popular computer science + design undergraduate degree. UIC is the only public university offering this interdisciplinary degree, which addresses the growing trend and demand for creative…
Read moreEVL Professor Michael Papka is among 52 ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Members inducted into the International Computing Society for significant contributions towards pivotal education, engineering, and science. Each…
Read more“MouseScholar: Evaluating an Image+Text Search System for Biocuration”, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Carla Floricel, Cecilia Arighi, Hagit Shatkay, Daniela Raciti, Martin Ringwald, and G. Elisabeta Marai is an accepted paper at 2023 IEEE…
Read moreParticipants stand inside virtual train tracks in the CAVE2™ System to observe distortion as high-speed trains roar past. This visualization of fundamental dynamics phenomena related to high-speed rail operations was done in collaboration with…
Read moreThe annual “SAGE3: Smart Amplified Group Environment for Harnessing the Data Revolution” all hands meeting was held this year at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Oahu, Hawaii, June 26 - 30 2023. UIC’ PI Andrew Johnson, CoPI…
Read moreThe 2023-2024 University Scholar Program has selected EVL professor G. Elisabeta Marai among its awarded and honored candidates. Dr. Marai is among two other designees within the College of Engineering - Professor Natasha Devroye with the Department…
Read moreExploring big cities like Chicago can be a daunting experience when the tourist has to gather information from multiple sources regarding places, directions, transportation, safety, and weather. We propose a large display solution (kiosks) which…
Read moreMichael E. Papka has been announced as the new Director of EVL. Mike has a long history with EVL, starting in 1994 when he graduated with his Masters degree in Computer Science - - through many long-term collaborations between Argonne National…
Read moreCarla Gabriela Floricel has been awarded funding by the UI Health Cancer Center to offset the cost of travel and registration to present her cancer-related work at the IEEE VIS 2023 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia October 22-27, 2023…
Read moreEVL PhD candidate Ke Fan has been named a recipient of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship. The fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is on high-performance computing…
Read moreSchool of Design and EVL professor Daria Tsoupikova has been recognized with the UIC Award for Creative Activity for 2022-2023. Daria is among 42 faculty members awarded to continue their pursuits of creative scholarship and activities at UIC. Daria…
Read moreEVL hosted ChicagoCHI’s June presentation &rlquo;Making Design Sense of Hearing”, June 22, 2023. Guest Speaker Greg Olsen, Portfolio Scientist Lead in the GN Advanced Science group presented his research augmented hearing, along with…
Read moreEVL faculty and Computer Science assistant professor Wei Tang has been working with Motorola to use computer vision to improve cell phone photos taken in low-light conditions. Dr. Tang’s research focuses on the integration of deep neural…
Read moreEVL hosts the pilot performances of “HUMMINGBIRD” the multiuser theatrical work that merges real and virtual worlds, engaging tech-savvy youth with a highly interactive virtual reality experience. This innovative project combines…
Read moreFunded by NASA, the SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems) is to deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) whose sensors collect biogeochemical data of the water’s composition (salinity, pressure…
Read moreCaterpillar Inc. is working with the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to develop a SAGE2™ application to enable distributed teams to collaborate on project planning and scheduling. Planning and scheduling the design, development…
Read moreIn an homage to “StarTrek,” EVL graduate student Arthur Nishimoto spent his spare time over the past two years creating a 3D virtual replica of the starship Enterprise. Participants can wander through various rooms inside the ship, and…
Read morePhD Student: Andrew Wentzel Committee members: Dr G.Elisabeta Marai (chair) Dr. Xinhua Zhang Dr. Fabio Miranda Dr. Guadalupe Canahuate (University of Iowa) Dr. Renata Raidou (Vienna University of Technology) Date Time: Wednesday, Dec 6th at 10 am…
Read moreAndrew Wentzel presents his research entitled “Digital Twins Visualization” at the IEEE VIS2024 Conference at 3:30 (4:30 EDT) October 17, 2024. Abstract: Digital twin models are of high interest to Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) oncologists…
Read moreComputer Science (CS) Professor and EVL faculty Micheal E. Papka is being honored among only a few of his colleagues with the Warren S. McCulloch Professorship of Computer Science. This recognition is the first-ever CS Professorship Investiture. Dr…
Read moreAI competency will be an essential workforce skill. A group of computer scientists and learning science experts are considering what a foundational introduction to AI might look like for middle school and high school students. EVL affiliated…
Read moreKyra Jones, School of Design undergraduate student created a virtual reality environment for the CAVE2 “TRNQWRLD” under the supervision of EVL faculty and Design Professor Daria Tsoupikova. Using Unity and the Unity simulator for the…
Read moreThe EVL research team lead by Professor Liz Marai and graduate research assistants Carla Floricel and Andrew Wentzel has their visual analytics work published at the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics session at the IEEE Vis…
Read moreCongratulations to Daria Tsoupikova in collaboration with award winning theater director Jo Cattell and their team, including application developers - EVL PhD candidates Arthur Nishimoto and Sai Priya, Computer Science professor / EVL interim…
Read moreEVL-affiliated faculty and Communication Distinguished Professor Steve Jones was part of the program committee for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication day-long research forum - AI IMPACT. The forum discussed…
Read moreEVL PhD candidate Arthur Nishimoto has developed a virtual reality representation of the proposed new College of Engineering (COE) building for display in the CAVE2. Participants can navigate through and explore the virtual COE building and…
Read moreNational Institutes of Health: National Cancer Institute has awarded UIC funding to continue research in head and neck cancer therapy. UIC PI, EVL faculty and Computer Science associate professor Liz Marai in conjunction with co-PI Xinhua Zhang are…
Read moreWritten and programmed for EVL’s CAVE2 by UIC Masters of Design student Quentin Bu, “Elegy” is a highly experimental virtual reality work, merging the artist’s original poetry and audio composition, graphic design, 3D…
Read moreJuly 19th - 22nd, EVL hosted the SAGE3 research and development team to discuss the past year’s major activities, significant results, key outcomes, other achievements, and future developments. Meeting topics include current SAGE3 usage…
Read moreSENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument is a National Science Foundation award to construct a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time data-acquisition…
Read moreResearchers at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, University of Illinois Chicago, and Virginia Tech were awarded a $5 million National Science Foundation grant to synergize two complementary technologies - large-scale data visualization and…
Read moreThis application uses EVL’s SAGE™ software to display both 2D and 3D data in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. In a collaborative session, participants can compare and contrast a variety of digital media sources towards better…
Read moreNewcity magazine is Chicago’s only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, and has been covering Chicago’s local scene for more than 25 years. It’s current “Best of Chicago” issue just came out (Volume 31, No…
Read moreIn 2023, the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research launched a program to fund interdisciplinary research by forming and funding pilot research institutes to bring together the unique strengths of…
Read moreEVL Research Associate Professor Luc Renambot joins collaborators from the University of Hawaii Manoa and Virginia Tech to present the latest advances in SAGE3 with a tutorial session at the ACM ISS 2023. SAGE3, the newest and most advanced…
Read moreA team led by researchers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) including EVL Professor Mike Papka was recognized with the Best Paper Award for an innovative scientific visualization study presented at the 2023 In Situ Infrastructures…
Read morePhD student Ke Fan’s research in profiling and visualizing performance data at scale is recognized with a best poster nomination at SC23. “Two-phase IO Enabling Large-scale Performance Introspection” focuses on developing an…
Read moreThe IBHE has approved the request for a Bachelor’s of Science (BS) degree in both Computer Science and Design effective for the Fall 2022 admissions and course cycle. This interdisciplinary degree officially culminates in EVL’s long…
Read moreIn the past decades, science has become increasingly interdisciplinary and scientific discovery has experienced a paradigm shift from the classical scientific method to data-intensive scientific discovery. SAGE2 provides these interdisciplinary…
Read moreProfessor and EVL interim director and director of research, Andrew Johnson participated with Matt Bubabla and Judy Pielach on their radio show WLS-AM 890 to discuss UIC’s involvement on the first “Star Wars” movie. In 1976…
Read moreThe SAGE3 Team has been quiet far too long, but we’ve been very busy! Here’s what to look forward to in the coming months: * SAGE3 beta version software with documentation will be released the week of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC22)…
Read moreUIC Computer Science Professors Andy Johnson (PI) and Barbara Di Eugenio (co-PI) have been awarded a $333,000 NSF grant entitled “CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Articulate+ - A Conversational Interface for Democratizing Visual…
Read moreEVL affiliated faculty and assistant professor of Computer Science Wei Tang has been appointed by Science Direct as associate editor of the journal “Pattern Recognition”. The journal publishes developments in the fields of computer…
Read moreAbleton Live is music software designed for computer-based composition and performance. Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound technique used for playing audio on sound systems with more than two speakers, providing the illusion that sound is…
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