About

Short Bio

Han-Wei Shen is a full professor at The Ohio State University. He received his BS degree from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University in 1988, the MS degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992, and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Utah in 1998. From 1996 to 1999, he was a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California. His primary research interests are scientific visualization and computer graphics. Professor Shen is a winner of National Science Foundation's CAREER award and US Department of Energy's Early Career Principal Investigator Award. He also won the Outstanding Teaching award twice in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah, 1998

  • M.S., Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1992

  • B.S., Computer Science, National Taiwan University, 1988

Awards

  • Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014

  • CSE Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002, 2009

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2004

  • DOE Early Career Principle Investigator Award, 2003

  • OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award, 2004

  • Ameritech Faculty Fellow, 2002

Professional Activities

  • Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Visualization

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology

  • Guest Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

  • Executive Committee, IEEE Visualization, 2015-present

  • Steering Committee, IEEE SciVis, 2014- present

  • Paper Co-Chair, IEEE SciVis 2013, 2014

  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization 2008, 2009

  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Pacific Visualization 2009, 2010

  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE/ACM Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics 1999

  • Program Co-Chair, Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2004

  • Program Committee, IEEE Visualization 2004-2006, 2009, 2010

  • Program Committee, Eurographics Symposium on Visualization 2001-2002, 2004-2008, 2010

  • Program Committee, Pacific Graphics 2006-20010

  • Program Committee, Volume Graphics 2001-2009

  • Program Committee, Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2002-2010

  • Program Committee, Pacific Visualization 2008

  • Program Committee, International Symposium on Visual Computing 2006-2009

Previous Professional Experience

  • Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, 10/2008-06/2009

  • Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, 09/1996-08/1999

  • Visiting Scientist, ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, 02/1996-03/1996, 06/1997-07/1997

  • Student Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994, 1995