Dear Colleagues and Friends, Through July 27th to August 7th, the *2018 ZJU International Summer School on Visual Analytics* will be held at the Zhejiang University in one of China’s most scenic cities, Hangzhou. The focus of this summer school will be big data visualization and visual analytics, delivering the latest research findings and advanced toolkits in these fields. In this summer school, preeminent researchers from all around the world will share their expertise, and members of the summer school will also have the chance to visit the tech giant Alibaba Group's headquarter. The summer school will bring together hundreds of talented students, professionals, and dozens of outstanding researchers in the field of visual analytics. Undergraduate/graduate students and working professionals who are interested in advanced techniques for data visualization are welcomed to apply. *See below the schedule and speakers for the 2018 ZJU International Summer School…* *Schedule - **July 27th to August 7th* *Topic* *Underlined** lectures are in Chinese* *Speakers* *July 27* Introduction to Information Visualization and Visual Analytics Tobias Schreck *July 28* *Visual Perception and Cognition* Wei Chen *July 29* *Interactive Visualization and Visual Analytics* Kwan-Liu Ma Visualization Toolkits and System I Teaching Assistants *July 30* Visual Design and Encoding Rüdiger Westermann Visualization Toolkits and System II Teaching Assistants *July 31* Scientific Data Visualization Stefan Bruckner *August 1* Tree and Graph Visual Analytics Benjamin Renoust *August 2* Visual Analytics of Text Data Jaegul Choo *August 3* VR/AR-based visualization Issei Fujishiro *August 4* *Flow Visualization* Xiaoyang Mao *August 5* *Visual Analytics of Multidimensional Data* Yingcai Wu *August 6* Visual Analytics of Geosocial Network Data Dennis Thom *August 7* Project Presentation Yingcai Wu & Wei Chen *Speakers* *Benjamin Renoust* Osaka University, Japan Benjamin joined the Osaka University Institute for Datability Science as a Lecturer since 2018. His current interest cover Graphs and Multimedia Analytics, a crosspoint between Visual Analytics and Multimedia Analysis, in which he brings a special touch of Network Analysis that combines heterogeneous and relational information. *Dennis Thom* University of Stuttgart, Germany Dr. Dennis Thom has been working at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart since 2010. He participated in research and development efforts in the EU 7th Framework Project PESCaDO and coordinated the University of Stuttgart participation in the BMBF-Project VASA. His research interests cover the areas of visual analytics, data mining, information retrieval, and social media monitoring. *Issei Fujishiro* Keio University, Japan Fujishiro is currently Chief Professor of the Center for Information and Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama. His research interests include volume visualization/graphics, applied visualization design, and smart multi-modal ambient media. He is serving on the steering committee for IEEE SciVis and IEEE PacificVis and serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Elsevier Journal of Visual Informatics as well as a SciVis Papers Co-Chair for IEEE VIS 2018. Fujishiro is a member of Science Council of Japan. *Jaegul Choo* Korea University, South Korea Jaegul Choo is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University. He focuses on the intersection of machine learning and visual analytics, publishing over 60 peer-reviewed technical articles in premier venues in both fields such as TVCG, CHI, VAST, CG&A, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, WWW, WSDM, ICDM, TKDD, DMKD, ICWSM, and SDM. He earned the Best Student Paper at ICDM’16, the Outstanding Research Scientist Award at Georgia Tech in 2015, and he was nominated as one of the four finalists for the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group dissertation award in 2013. *Kwan-Liu Ma* UC Davis, USA Kwan-Liu Ma is a professor of computer science, where he directs VIDI Labs and UC Davis Center of Excellence for Visualization. His research spans the fields of visualization, computer graphics, high-performance computing, and user interface design. Professor Ma is presently leading a team of over 25 researchers pursuing research in scientific visualization, information visualization, visual analytics, visualization for storytelling, visualization interface design, and immersive visualization. *Rüdiger Westermann* Technical University of Munich, Germany Ruediger Westermann studied computer science at the Technical University Darmstadt and received the Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Dortmund, both in Germany. In 2002, he was appointed the chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is one of the main drivers of the Visual Computing and Computer Games initiatives at TUM. His research interests include scalable data visualization and simulation algorithms, uncertainty visualization, GPU computing, and real-time rendering. *Stefan Bruckner* University of Bergen, Norway Stefan Bruckner is a full professor in Visualization at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include all aspects of data visualization, with a particular focus on interactive techniques for the exploration and analysis of spatial data. He has made significant contributions to areas such as illustrative visualization, volume rendering, smart visual interfaces, biomedical data visualization, and visual parameter space exploration. In addition to his contributions in basic research, he has successfully led industry collaborations with major companies such as GE Healthcare and Agfa HealthCare, and has 6 granted patents. *Tobias Schreck* Graz University of Technology, Austria. Tobias Schreck is a Professor with the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He works in the areas of Visual Analytics and Digital Libraries. His research interests include visual pattern search and analysis in time-oriented, high-dimensional and 3D object data, with applications in data analysis, multimedia retrieval and cultural heritage. He has co-authored more than 150 papers in his research areas. He is currently a principal investigator in several Austrian state-funded research projects on Immersive and Visual Data Analysis for industrial applications. *Wei Chen* Zhejiang University, China Wei Chen is a professor at the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. He has performed research in computer graphics and visualization and published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the last five years. His current research interests include scientific visualization, visual analytics and bio-medical image computing. *Xiaoyang Mao* University of Yamanashi, Japan Xiaoyang Mao received her B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Tokyo. She is currently a professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Yamanashi, Japan. Her research interests include texture synthesis, visual perception, non-photo-realistic rendering, VR/AR and their application to visualization. *Yingcai Wu* Zhejiang University, China Yingcai Wu is a ZJU100 Young Professor at the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to his current position, Yingcai Wu was a researcher in the Microsoft Research Asia, from 2012 to 2015, and a postdoctoral researcher in the University of California, Davis from 2010 to 2012. His main research interests are in visual analytics, information visualization, and human-computer interaction, with focuses on urban computing and sports analysis. He has published more than 50 refereed papers and his three papers have been awarded Honorable Mention at IEEE VIS (SciVis) 2009, IEEE VIS (VAST) 2014, and IEEE PacificVis 2016. *Location* The 2018 ZJU International Summer School on Visual Analytics will convene in Hangzhou, China, at the Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University. *For Candidates* The 2018 ZJU International Summer School on Visual Analytics is free for all attendees out of China. To apply, please email your application to ( Liuyu2018@zju.edu.cn) with the following information: 1. Your Name 2. Your Organization 3. Degree Obtained/Underway (Undergraduate/MSc./Ph.D.) 4. Academic Supervisor (if any) 5. Briefly introduce why you are interested in participating in this summer school *Verification of personal information will be done upon acceptance into the summer school. The 2018 ZJU International Summer School on Visual Analytics is organized by the State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China -- ************************************* Yingai Wu Ph.D, ZJU100 Young Professor State Key Lab of CAD&CG College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R.China Email:ycwu@zju.edu.cn Website: www.ycwu.org *************************************