Sara Su

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043

sarasucsail.mit.edu

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Publications & Presentations

• Understanding Visualization by Understanding Individual Users
  C. Ziemkiewicz, A. Ottley, J. Crouser, K. Chauncey, S. Su, and R. Chang
  To appear in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2012
• Molli: Interactive Visualization for Exploratory Protein Analysis
  S. Su, C. Gramazio, M. Strait, C. Crumm, D. Extrum-Fernandez, M. Menke, and L. Cowen
  To appear in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, September 2012
• Heapviz: Interactive Heap Visualization for Program Understanding and Debugging
  E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
  To appear in Information Visualization, May 2012
• How Locus of Control Influences Compatibility with Visualization Style
  C. Ziemkiewicz, J. Crouser, S. Su, A. R. Yauilla, W. Ribarsky, and R. Chang
  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
  Providence, RI, October 2011
  Honorable Mention for Best Paper
• Near to the Brain: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Lightweight Brain
  Imaging Technique for Visualization
  E. Peck, E. Solovey, S. Su, R. Jacob, and R. Chang
  Poster, IEEE Conference on Information Visualization
  Providence, RI, October 2011
  Best Poster Award
• Moleint: Reducing Workload through Adaptive Interaction
  M. Strait, J. Park, S. Su, and L. Cowen
  Poster, Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI)
  Cambridge, MA, March 2011
• Heapviz: Interactive Heap Visualization for Program Understanding and Debugging
  E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
  Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS), pp. 53-62
  Salt Lake City, UT, October 2010
• Heapviz: A Programmer's Tool for Data Structure Visualization
  E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
  Demo, IEEE VisWeek 2010
  Salt Lake City, UT, October 2010
• TuftsViewer: An Intuitive Interface for Viewing 3D Protein Structures
  M. Menke, S. Su, C. Gramazio, C. Crumm, D. Extrum-Fernandez, and L. Cowen
  Demo, 3DSIG 2010: The 6th Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics Meeting
  Boston, MA, July 2010
• Interactive Visual Histories for Vector Graphics
  S. Su, S. Paris, F. Aliaga, C. Scull, S. Johnson, and F. Durand
  Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-031, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA, June 2009
• QuickSelect: History-Based Selection Expansion
  S. Su, S. Paris, and F. Durand
  Proceedings of the 35th Graphics Interface Conference, pp. 215-221
  Kelowna, BC, Canada, May 2009
• Enhanced Visual Authoring Using Operation History
  S. Su
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA, May 2009
• Visualizing, Editing, and Inferring Structure in 2D Graphics
  S. Su
  Doctoral Symposium, 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2007)
  Newport, RI, October 2007
• Dead-End Elimination as a Heuristic for Min-Cut Image Segmentation
  M. Radhakrishnan and S. Su
  Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006)
  Atlanta, GA, October 2006
• De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps
  S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
  Texture 2005: Proceedings of the 4th ICCV Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis, pp. 119-124
  Beijing, China, October 2005
• De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps
  S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
  Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'05)
  A Coruña, Spain, August 2005
• Image Editing With Texture Power Maps
  S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
  Poster, Symposium on Computational Photography and Video (SCPV'05)
  Cambridge, MA, May 2005
• Perceptual Picture Emphasis Using Texture Power Maps
  S. Su
  Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA, January 2005
  M.J. Levin Prize for Best Thesis Presentation in Computer Science
• An Inverted Saliency Model for Display Enhancement
  S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
  MIT Student Oxygen Workshop
  Ashland, MA, September 2004

• A Hybrid Approach to Rendering Handwritten Characters
  S. Su, C. Wu, Y. Xu, and H. Shum
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and
  Computer Vision, pp. 427-434
  Plzeň, Czech Republic, February 2004
• Simulating Artistic Brushstrokes Using Interval Splines
  S. Su, Y. Xu, H. Shum, and F. Chen
  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, pp. 85-90
  Kauai, HI, August 2002
• The Tutored Video Instruction Pilot Project: Overview and Experiences in Introductory Programming Courses
  S. Su and R. Anderson
  Poster, First ACM Richard Tapia Symposium on Diversity in Computing
  Houston, Texas, October 2001

Updated May 2012