Ben Jacobsen Receives Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2021

Dec. 22, 2020
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Ben Jacobsen was selected for honorable mention for the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2021. He is the first author of a paper at the top visualization conference: 

B. Jacobsen, M. Wallinger, S. Kobourov, and M. Noellenburg, ``MetroSets: Visualizing Sets as Metro Maps," 26th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS), 2020. 

As part of this work, Ben designed, implemented and deployed as a web-service a fully functional system that takes as input a hypergraph and generates a metro map visualization; see short video here XX, a video of the conference presentation here YY and test out the actual system here ZZ.

 

XX: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_1FWIzpJYga6FNHuCV2Vb9IGzi_1HIUK?usp=sharing

YY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwnVRMEYG5I&feature=youtu.be&t=4580

ZZ: https://metrosets.ac.tuwien.ac.at/