Alexander Lex
  • Associate Professor, School Of Computing
801-585-0327

Professional Service

  • IEEE VIS. Member of IEEE VIS Area Curation Committee, 2023–2026. 03/2023 - 10/2026
  • IEEE TVCG. Associate Editor. 01/2023 - present
  • IEEE CG&A. Associate Editor. 01/2023 - present
  • IEEE VIS. Area papers co-chair at IEEE VIS (area: Theoretical & Empirical), 2023. 10/2022 - 10/2023
  • IEEE VIS. Area Papers Chair. 10/2020 - 10/2021
  • NIH. Study Section / Reviewer. 01/2020 - 06/2020
  • IEEE VIS. Short Papers Chair. 10/2019 - 10/2020
  • Visualization in Data Science. Steering Committee Member. 10/2018 - 11/2022
  • BioVis. Papers Chair. 10/2018 - 10/2019
  • VDS. Program Committee. 06/2018 - 06/2019
  • IEEE VIS. Role: Member. reVISe - Restructuring IEEE VIS Committee. 01/2018 - 10/2020
  • NSF. Grant Review Panels (three times). 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • ACM CHI. Program Committee 2017, 2018. 01/01/2017 - 12/2018
  • Symposium on Visualization in Data Science. General Chair. 10/2016 - 11/2017
  • Symposium on Visualizing Biological Data. Papers Chair. 08/2016 - 07/2017
  • IEEE VIS - VAST. Program Committee Member. 01/2016 - present
  • IEEE PacificVis. Program Committee. 01/2016 - 12/2017
  • IEEE. IEEE VIS, Organizing Committee Member, Publicity Chair, Supporters Chair. 10/2015 - 10/2019
  • School of Computing. Graduate Admissions Committee. 10/2015 - 06/2018
  • EuroVis Short Papers. Program Committee. 01/2015 - 11/2017
  • IEEE InfoVis. Program Committee. 01/2015 - 11/2016
  • BioVis. Program Committee . 01/2015 - 11/2016
  • Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS. Program co-chair. 01/2015 - 11/2016
  • Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis). Poster Co-Chair. 01/2015 - 11/2016

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 2023. IEEE CG&A, 11/2023
  • Honorable Mention Award, IEEE VIS, 2021, for the Loon paper. IEEE VIS, 10/2021
  • Best Abstract Honorable Mention, BioVis at ISMB/ECCV, 2021, for the Loon abstract. BioVis at ISMB/ECCV, 06/2021
  • Honorable Mention Award (Poster), IEEE VIS. IEEE VIS, 10/2019
  • Honorable Mention (top-3 papers) for Paper "Pathfinder: Visual Analysis of Paths in Graphs. EG/VGTC EuroVis, 06/2016

Internal Service

  • SCI Visualization Faculty Search Committee Chair. 10/2022 - 06/2023. Department service.
  • Director of Graduate Studies. 07/2022 - present. Department service.
  • SCI Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Cooperative Steering Committee Member. 11/2021 - 10/2022. Other service.
  • SCI/DBMI Faculty Search Committee. 10/2021 - 10/2022. Department service.
  • Large Scale Visualization Faculty Search Committee. 10/2021 - 07/2022. Department service.
  • Scientific Visualization Faculty Search Committee. 10/2021 - 07/2022. Department service.
  • Curriculum Committee. 08/2020 - 06/2021. Department service.
  • AI Search Committee. 08/2020 - 06/2021. Department service.
  • Software Engineering Curriculum Committee. 01/2020 - 06/2021. Department service.
  • SCI Software Engineering Evaluator. 10/2018 - 11/2021. Other service.
  • Associate Director for Graduate Studies. 10/2018 - 06/2021. Department service.
  • Data Science Curriculum Committee. 10/2018 - 06/2021. Department service.
  • Hiring Committee, Databases. 11/2016 - 06/2017. Department service.
  • GradSac Liason. 07/2016 - 08/2019. Department service.
  • Graduate Admissions Committee. 12/2015 - present. Department service.

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