Bei Wang portrait
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Mathematics
  • Associate Professor, School Of Computing
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Professional Service

  • Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2024. Paper Chair Short Paper Track. 09/01/2023 - 05/27/2024
  • Dagstuhl seminar: Topology, Computation and Data Analysis. Workshop organizer. 05/08/2023 - 05/12/2023
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) . Associate Editor. 03/01/2023 - present
  • Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2023. Paper Chair Short Paper Track. 01/01/2023 - 06/12/2023
  • International Symposium on Computational Geometry. Role: Workshop organizer. Geometric and Topological Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, co-located with International Symposium on Computational Geometry. 06/07/2021 - 06/11/2021
  • AAAI 2021. Role: Workshop organizer. A Visual Tour of Bias Mitigation Techniques for Word Representations at AAAI Tutorial Forum. 02/03/2021 - 02/03/2021
  • IEEE Visualization Conference. Role: Workshop organizer. Application Spotlights: Challenges in the Visualization of Bioelectric Fields for Cardiac and Neural Research at IEEE VIS. 10/30/2020 - 10/30/2020
  • IEEE Visualization Conference. Role: Workshop organizer. Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, Educating the Earth at IEEE VIS. 10/26/2020 - 10/26/2020
  • SCI Institute. Role: Workshop organizer. Visualization in Astrophysics: Carnegie + SCI Mini-Workshop at SCI. 04/27/2020 - 04/27/2020
  • International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SOCG). Role: Program Committee. Manage paper reviews and subviews, discussions at the top conference in computational geometry and topology. PC is not allowed to submit papers. 12/2018 - 03/2019
  • Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS. Role: Program Committee. Paper reviews and discussions. 06/2018 - 08/2018
  • EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). Role: Program Committee. Paper discussions and reviews. 12/2017 - 03/2018
  • Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS. Role: Program Committee. Paper review and lead discussion. 08/2017 - 09/2017
  • IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV). Role: Program Committee; LDAV Best Paper Selection Committee; . Paper review and discussion; best paper selection. 06/2017 - 09/2017
  • Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG). Role: Program committee. Review paper and lead paper discussions. 02/2017 - 03/2017
  • Dagstuhl Seminar: Topology, Computation and Data Analysis. Role: Organizer. Organizing the seminar, invite speakers, collect materials for final reporting. 01/2017 - 12/2017
  • 6th Annual Mini-symposium on Computational Topology co-located with 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry. Role: Organizer. Invite speakers and other organizational tasks. 01/2017 - 06/2017
  • IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS). SciVis Session Chair. 10/2016 - 10/2016
  • IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV). Session Chair. 10/2016 - 10/2016
  • High-Performance Computing (HPC) China. Role: Program committee. Paper review for Scientific Visualization. 08/2016 - 09/2016
  • Grace Hopper Conference . Role: Gaming/Graphics/Animation (GFX) track committee. Review and discuss technical submissions under Gaming/Graphics/Animation (GFX) track. 04/2016 - 05/2016
  • National Science Foundation (NSF). Role: Proposal review panelist. Serve on a proposal review panel. 01/2016 - 12/2016
  • Journals/Conferences in data analysis and visualization. Role: Journal and conference paper reviewer. Review technique submissions to journals and conference: Book chapter for Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis series (Birkhauser/Springer); Discrete & Computational Geometry (DCG); IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV); High-Performance Computing (HPC) China; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG); SIAM Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX); Computer Graphics Forum (CGF); Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis); International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications (IJCGA); Symposium on Computational Geometry (SOCG); The Visual Computer (TVCJ); IEEE Visualization conference (VIS), etc. 01/2016 - 12/2016

Internal Service

  • SoC/SCI visualization faculty hiring committee. 11/01/2021 - 04/01/2022. Department service.
  • Organizer, Utah and West Coast Joint Party at IEEE VIS Conference (School of Computing and SCI Institute, Univ. of Utah). Organizer, 08/2017 - 10/2017. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Honorable Mention Paper Award at IEEE Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis) 2023. 10/22/2023
  • Visual Computer Cover of the Year 2023. 01/01/2023
  • Honorable Mention Paper Award at IEEE Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis) 2022 . 10/17/2022
  • Visual Computer Second Best Paper Award at Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2022. 09/12/2022
  • NSF CAREER Award. 06/15/2022
  • Best Paper Award. IEEE Pacific Visualization (PacificVis), 04/2014

Community Partnership

  • Invited Speaker at HackTheU. HackTheU is Utah’s largest hackathon where students from across the state and nation develop their solutions to the various prompts through augmented reality, virtual reality, IoT, and many other kinds of applications. 10/2017 - 10/2017

Outreach

  • Lecturer at Hi-GEAR Camp . 07/14/2022 - 07/14/2022

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