Radu Jianu

In 2016 I became part of the giCentre at City, University of London where I teach and conduct research in information visualization, visual analytics, and human computer interaction.

I received a Ph.D in Computer Science, with a focus on data visualization, from Brown University in 2012. Between my PhD and my move to London I was an Assistant Professor at Florida International University.

I am currently exploring novel ways in which the increasingly affordable eye-tracking technology can change how people use visual data analysis systems. Specifically, I explore both diagnostic uses of eye-tracking (e.g., understanding how analysts explore information and aggregate knowledge), and interactive uses of eye-tracking (e.g., highlighting visualization elements users focus on). In a separate project, I look at how evaluating visualizations via user studies can be automated using crowd-sourcing and benchmark tasks. Finally, I search for practical applications of such fundamental computer science research through interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in areas such as proteomics, genomics, neuroscience, economics, or architecture.

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[2017]
Sayeed Alam, and Radu Jianu. A Data Model and Task Space for Data of Interest (DOI) Eye-Tracking Analyses. In TVCG, 2016.


[2016]
Sayeed Alam, and Radu Jianu. Analyzing Eye-Tracking Information in Visualization and Data Space: from Where on the Screen to What on the Screen. In TVCG, 2016.

Angela Laird, Mark Riedel, Mershack Okoe, Radu Jianu, KL Ray, SB Eickhoff, SM Smith, PT Fox, MT Sutherland Heterogeneous fractionation profiles of meta-analytic coactivation networks. In Neuroimage, 2016.

Renata Pinheiro, Nipesh Pradhananga, Radu Jianu, and Waleed Orabi. Eye-tracking technology for construction safety: A feasibility study. In 33rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction., 2016.


[2015]
Mershack Okoe, and Radu Jianu. GraphUnit: Evaluating Interactive Graph Visualizations Using Crowdsourcing. In Eurovis2015, 2015.  (pdf)

Sayeed Alam, and Radu Jianu. What Are They Doing? : Real-time Analysis of Eye-Tracking Data. In IEEE VIS 2015, poster track, 2015.  (pdf)

Mershack Okoe, and Radu Jianu. Ecological Validity in Quantitative User Studies – a Case Study in Graph Evaluation. In IEEE VIS 2015, poster track, 2015.  (pdf)

Steven Gomez, Radu Jianu, Ryan Cabeen, Hua Guo, and David H. Laidlaw. Fauxvea: Crowdsourcing Gaze Estimates for Visualization Analysis Tasks. In IEEE TVCG, 2015 (in review, minor revision requested).


[2014]
Radu Jianu, Adrian Rusu, Yifan Hu, and Douglas Taggart. How to Display Group Information on Node-Link Diagrams: an Evaluation. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2014.  (pdf)

Mershack Okoe, Sayeed Safayet, and Radu Jianu. GraphUnit: Evaluating Interactive Graph Visualization Using CrowdSourcing. In Eurovis2014 and Computer Graphics Forum Journal (CGF) 2014.  (pdf)

Mershack Okoe and Radu Jianu. A Gaze-enabled Graph Visualization to Improve Graph Reading Tasks. In IEEE VIS 2014 poster program 2014.  (pdf)

Honorable Mention:: Nahid Ferdous and Radu Jianu. Using Pupil Size as an Indicator for Task Difficulty in Data Visualization. In IEEE VIS 2014 poster program 2014.  (pdf)

Sayeed Safayet, and Radu Jianu. Data of Interest (DOI)-Based Analysis of Eye-Tracker Data for Interactive Visualizations. In IEEE VIS 2014 poster program 2014.  (pdf)


[2013]
Adrian Rusu and Radu Jianu. Combining Scientific and Information Visualization Artifacts for Complex System Diagnosis. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), , 2013.

Mershack Okoe, Sayeed Safayet, and Radu Jianu. Using Eye-Tracking as Interactive Input Enhances Graph Visualization. In IEEE Visualization 2013 Poster Compendium 2013.

Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. What Google Maps can do for biomedical data dissemination:examples and a design study In BMC Research Notes vol. 6 2013.


[2012]
Steven R. Gomez, Radu Jianu, Hua Guo, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, and David H. Laidlaw. Different Strokes for Different Folks: Visual Presentation Design Between Disciplines In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), VisWeek 2012, 2012.  (pdf)

Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. An Evaluation of How Small User Interface Changes Can Improve Scientists’ Analytic Strategies In Symposium on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2012.  (pdf)

Radu Jianu, Wenjin Zhou, Ryan Cabeen, Daniel Dickstein, and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing tractography metrics of cortical-connectivity integrity in diffusion imaging In ISMRM 2012.  (pdf)

J Ericson, M Painter, S Davis, C Laplace, G Hyatt, H Paik, K Rothamel, R Cruse, G Doran, T Heng, N Asinovski, Ortiz-A Lopes, A Ergun, D Gray, E Wakamatsu, J Hill, M Mingueneau, D Cipoletta, H Yoshida, C Benoist, D Mathis, N Cohen, E Kim, P Brennan, L Lynch, M Brenner, J Costello, JJ Collins, D Blair, M Dustin, J Knell, E Yang, A Best, L Shaw, A Doedens, A Goldrath, S Shinton, Y Zhou, R Hardy, V Jojic, S Mostafavi, D Koller, Radu Jianu, David H. Laidlaw, N Bezman, J Sun, Y Zhu, D Hendricks, Y Kamimura, G Min-Oo, M Morvan, T Nabekura, V Lam, C Kim, L Lanier, M Greter, J Helft, A Chow, M Bogunovic, A Mortha, J Price, D Hashimoto, J Miller, P Sathe, A Chudnovskiy, Y Lavin, J Idoyaga, M Merad, E Gautier, C Jakubzick, D' J Angelo, G Randolph, T Shay, A Regev, R Gazit, Rossi D, T Kreslawsky, Bohmer H von, A Bellemare-Pelletier, K Elpek, L Spelv, A Fletcher, D Malhotra, V Cremasco, S Turley, F Kim, TN Rao, A Wagers, and Immunological Genome Project. Identification of transcriptional regulators in the mouse immune system In Consortium biology in immunology: the perspective from the Immunological Genome Project, 2012.

Emmanuel L Gautier, Tal Shay, Jennifer Miller, Melanie Greter, Claudia Jakubzick, Stoyan Ivanov, Julie Helft, Andrew Chow, Kutlu G Elpek, Simon Gordonov, Amin R Mazloom, Avi Ma'ayan, Wei-Jen Chua, Ted H Hansen, Shannon J Turley, Miriam Merad, Gwendalyn J Randolph, David H. Laidlaw, and Radu Jianu. Gene-expression profiles and transcriptional regulatory pathways that underlie the identity and diversity of mouse tissue macrophages In Nature Immunology , 2012.

D Malhotra, Anne L Fletcher, J Astarita, V Lukacs-Kornek, P Tayalia, SF Gonzalez, KG Elpek, SK Chang, K Knoblich, ME Hemler, MB Brenner, MC Carroll, DJ Mooney, SJ Turley, The Immunological Genome Project Consortium the, Y Zhou, SA Shinton, RR Hardy, NA Bezman, JC Sun, CC Kim, LL Lanier, J Miller, M Merad, AL Fletcher, A Bellemare-Pelletier, K Narayan, K Sylvia, J Kang, R Gazit, B Garrison, DJ Rossi, V Jojic, D Koller, Radu Jianu, David H. Laidlaw, J Costello, J Collins, N Cohen, P Brennan, T Shay, A Regev, F Kim, TN Rao, A Wagers, EL Gautier, C Jakubzick, GJ Randolph, P Monach, AJ Best, J Knell, A Goldrath, T Heng, T Kreslavsky, M Painter, D Mathis, and C Benoist. Transcriptional profiling of stroma from inflamed and resting lymph nodes defines immunological hallmarks In Nature Immunology , 2012.

Jennifer C Miller, Brian D Brown, Tal Shay, Emmanuel L Gautier, Vladimir Jojic, Ariella Cohain, Gaurav Pandey, Marylene Leboeuf, Kutlu G Elpek, Julie Helft, Daigo Hashimoto, Andrew Chow, Jeremy Price, Melanie Greter, Milena Bogunovic, Angelique Bellemare-Pelletier, Paul S Frenette, Gwendalyn J Randolph, Shannon J Turley, Miriam Merad, David H. Laidlaw, and Radu Jianu. Deciphering the transcriptional network of the dendritic cell lineage. In Nature Immunology , 2012.


[2011]
Radu Jianu, Cagatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Exploring brain connectivity with two-dimensional neural maps. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2011.  (pdf)

Cagatay Demiralp, Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. Exploring brain connectivity with two-dimensional maps. In New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields. 2011.  (pdf)

Amalia Rusu, Andrew Fabian, Radu Jianu and Adrian Rusu. Using the Gestalt Principle of Closure to Alleviate the Edge Crossing Problem in Graph Drawings. In 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), 2011.

Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. Guiding Visualization Users Towards Improved Analytic Strategies Using Small Interface Changes In IEEE Visualization 2011 Poster Compendium, 2011.


[2010]
Steven Gomez, Radu Jianu, and David H. Laidlaw. A Fiducial-Based Tangible User Interface for White Matter Tractography. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing '10, 2010.  (pdf)

Radu Jianu, Cagatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing and exploring tractograms via two-dimensional connectivity maps. In Proceedings of ISMRM'10, 2010.  (pdf)

Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Gene Co-Expression as Google Maps. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing '10, 2010.  (pdf)

Radu Jianu and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Protein Interaction Networks as Google Maps. In IEEE Visualization 2010 Poster Compendium, 2010.  (pdf)

(Best Poster Award) Radu Jianu, Cagatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Exploring brain connectivity with two-dimensional neural maps. In IEEE Visualization 2010 Poster Compendium, 2010.  (pdf)


[2009]
Radu Jianu, Cagatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Exploring 3D DTI Fiber Tracts with Linked 2D Representations. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2009.  (pdf)

R. Jianu, K. Yu, L. Cao, V. Nguyen, A. Salomon and D.H. Laidlaw. Visual integration of quantitative proteomic data, pathways and protein interactions. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2009.  (pdf)

R. Jianu, A. Rusu, A.J. Fabian and D.H. Laidlaw. A Coloring Solution to the Edge Crossing Problem. In Proceedings of the 2009 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation. 2009.  (pdf)

V. Nguyen, L. Cao, J.T. Lin, N. Hung, A. Ritz, K. Yu, R. Jianu, S.P. Ulin, B.J. Raphael, D.H. Laidlaw and A. Salomon. A new approach for quantitative phosphoproteomic dissection of signaling pathways applied to T cell receptor activation. In Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 2009.


[2008]
T.S. Heng, M. W Painter and Immunological Genome Project Consortium. The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells. In Nature Immunology Oct. 2008.


[2007]
K. Yu, L. Cao, R. Jianu, R. Park, C. Gatsonis, D.H. Laidlaw and A. Salomon. A software suite to expedite the study of cell signaling pathway: automated acquisition, organization and annotation. In 55 th ASMS Conference Proceedings. 2007.

A. Rusu, C. Santiago and R. Jianu. Real-time Interactive Visualization of Information Hierarchies. In 11th International Conference on Information Visualization, 2007.

M.Kostandov, J. Schwertfeger, O.C Jenkins, R. Jianu and others. Robot gaming and learning using augmented reality. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, Poster track. 2007.  (pdf)


[2006]
A. Rusu, R. Jianu, C. Santiago and C. Clement. An Experimental Study on Algorithms for Drawing Binary Trees. In Proceedings of the 2006 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation 2006.

A. Rusu, C. Clement and R. Jianu. Adaptive Binary-Trees Visualization with Respect to User-Specified Quality Measures. In 10th Conference on Information Visualization, 2006.

R. Jianu, A. Salomon and D.H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Phosphorilation Experiments Data in the Context of Known Protein Interactions. In IEEE InfoVis '06, Poster Compendium, 2006.  (pdf)

M, Kostandov, R. Jianu, W. Zhou, and T. Moscovich. Interactive Layered Character Animation in Immersive Virtual Environments. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Poster Track. 2006.  (pdf)


[2005]


[2004]
R. Jianu, A. Rusu, V. Anand and K. Hansen. Area efficient visualization of Web Data. In Proc. 5th International Conference on Internet Computing 2004.