I am an associate professor in School of Computing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the director of Holland Computing Center. I received my B.S. degree and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California-Davis. After my Ph.D. graduation, I spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, California. My research concentrates on big data analysis and visualization, high-performance computing, and user interfaces and interaction.

Highlights
• Congratulations, Dr. Jianxin Sun! (04/29/2024).
• Our visualization lab participated in Lincoln's 2023 Hour of Code & Tech Fair event at Nebraska Innovation Campus, which had 570 people register for the event and checked in 600 attendees (12/02/2023).
• Girls Code Lincoln visited our visualization lab, and girls had hands-on activities on interactive visualization. (11/12/2023)
• Yu Shi successfully defended his Master thesis on CT Image Synthsis. (07/25/2023)
• We had a booth at the Woman in Science conference. (03/31/2023)
• We had an opportunity to join the first in-person Hour of Code event in over two years and resume our visualization demonstrations for our Nebraska kids. (12/03/2022)
• We met with the Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) Science Connector at Science Connector. (08/10/2022)
• Congratulations, Dr. Tiao Gao! (04/22/2022).
• Congratulations, Dr. Yu Pan! (08/05/2021).
• Several team members get summer internships: Ian - NASA, Jianxin - Argonne National Laboratory, Shawn - ThredUp (04/29/2021).
• Suresh Thapa successfully defended his Master project (10/23/2020).
• Congratulations, Dr. Feiyu Zhu! (07/23/2020).
• We demonstrated visualization to Nebraska girls in grades 3-12 at the third annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering day. The event was supported by multiple sponsors, including Lincoln Children's Museum, UNL College of Engineering, and so on (01/25/2020).
• Our lab participated in Hour of Code 2019 with our visualization demonstrations (12/07/2019).
• Saeideh Samani successfully defended her Master thesis on uncertainty visualization for nitrogen leaching (12/02/2019).
• Our lab participated in Nebraska State FFA Convention Tours for visualization demos and presentations to future farmers of America (04/03/2019).
• Jin Wang successfully defended his Master thesis on learning-based data prefetching (11/18/2019).
• Ebrahim successfully defended his Master project on GPU-based point cloud processing (07/26/2019).
• Yves successfully defended his Master thesis on distributed edge bundling (07/23/2019).
• Li successfully defended her Master thesis on eye tracking data visualization (05/24/2019).
• Congratulations, Dr. Jieting Wu! (12/14/2018).
• Jianxin have been awarded UNL Chancellor's Fellowship! (10/09/2018).
• We had an interactive scientific visualization booth at Hour of Code 2018, an annual event co-hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) for promoting interdisciplinary computer technology. There were 980 people registered for this event, including 459 adults and 521 students (most K-12 students).(12/08/2018)
• Chunxiao successfully defended her Master project (07/19/2018).
• Hongfeng Attended Dagstuhl Seminar on In Situ Visualization for Computational Science, July, 2018 (07/1-6/2018).
• Saeideh gained Computing Research Association of Women in Computing (CRA-W) conference scholarship, San Fransisco, CA, April 2018!
• Babak successfully defended his Master project (04/11/2018).
• Congratulations, Dr. Lina Yu and Dr. Jianping Zeng! (12/15/2017).
• Shi successfully defended his Master thesis (04/18/2017).
• Saeideh received Computing Research Association of Women in Computing (CRA-W) conference scholarship, Washington, DC, April 2017!
• Mohsen successfully defended his Master project (04/11/2017).
• Lina won Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant from UNL College of Engineering (12/13/2016).
• Jianping passed the Ph.D. comprehensive exam (12/10/2016).
• Lina passed the Ph.D. comprehensive exam (11/30/2016).
• American Scientist. "A Computed Flame: To understand how fuel burns in a diesel engine takes chemistry knowledge and supercomputing muscle."
• Our Tweether work has been reported by Science Node.
• Yanfu successfully defended his Master thesis (07/15/2016).
• Feiyu passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam in Spring 2016.
• Jieting passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam in Fall 2015.
• Jianping's paper "Parallel Modularity-based Community Detection on Large-scale Graphs" has been selected as one of four Best Paper Candidates at IEEE Cluster 2015.
• Jianping won NSF Travel Award (07/08/2015).
• Jianping won Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant from UNL College of Engineering (06/11/2015).
• Jieting successfully defended his Master thesis (04/14/2015).
• Shruti successfully defended her Master project (04/10/2015).
• Jianping passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam in Fall 2013.
• Lina passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam in Fall 2013.
• Hongfeng was selected to participate in the 2013 UNL Research Development Fellows Program.