Please join us for a UW Data Science Seminar featuring Central Washington University Professor of Computer Science Boris Kovalerchuk on Wednesday, May 6th from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. The seminar will be held in IEB G109.

“Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Moving to Visual Knowledge Discovery”

Abstract: Integrating artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) with visualization is an emerging and transformative paradigm for analyzing high-dimensional data and developing explainable AI/ML models that domain experts can understand and trust, rather than black-box models. This interdisciplinary field is now termed as Visual Knowledge Discovery (VKD). While classical orthogonal Cartesian coordinates have been a backbone of science for 400 years, they visualize only 2D or 3D data. Parallel Coordinates removed this limitation only for some types of data. The key new opportunity here is in a lossless visualization of high-dimensional data with emerging General Line Coordinates (GLC). A summary of current advancements and future challenges in the AI and Visualization frontier based on the Concepts of Visual Knowledge Discovery and General Line Coordinates will be presented.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk is a professor of Computer Science at Central Washington University. His publication activities include five books published by Springer: ”Data Mining in Finance (2000), “Visual and Spatial Analysis” (2005), “Visual Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning” (2018), “Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery” (2022), and “Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Advancing Visual Knowledge Discovery” (2024), chapters in the Data Mining/Machine Learning Handbooks (2006, 2010, 2023) with total over 200 publications. He coined the terms Visual Knowledge Discovery (VKD) and General Line Coordinates (GLC), which link AI/ML and visualization frontiers. Dr. Kovalerchuk has been a principal investigator of research projects supported by the US Government agencies and a senior visiting scholar at the Air Force Research Lab. He delivered relevant tutorials at major conferences.