Mr Mao Lin Huang

Dr Mao Lin Huang is a Professor in the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Wester Sydney University. He completed his PhD dissertation and graduated from the data visualization group at Newcastle University in 1999, with the PhD dissertation titled: "Online Information Visualization of Huge Data Spaces", awarded the Best Paper Award at the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC'98), held in Perth 1998.

Over the past 24 years, he conducted world-class research in the fields of Data Visualization and Visual Data Analytics in the university. During that period, he has supervised 15 PhD students towards the completion of their doctoral dissertations in the above fields. Many of his PhD graduates are now working in universities as a Professor, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.

Professor Huang, so far, has published 211 research papers in high quality journals and international conferences. These publications have received approx. 2,615 citations as per Google Scholar (h-, and i10-indices are 22, and 63, respectively).See Google Scholar at: [https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=cUxFLH0AAAAJ&hl=en].

Professor Huang is an internationally recognized Data Visualization Scientist, known for his expertise in Hierarchical Data (Tree) Visualization and Dynamic Information Visualization. He invented or co-invented many data visualization techniques. Among them, eight techniques are included in the TreeVis 2.0 [A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization 2.0 (http://www.treevis.net)] as part of its recommended 336 Most Remarkable methods recorded in the entire 309 years history of hierarchical data visualization from 1714 to 2023.

These eight innovative Tree Visualization techniques are:

1. Space-Optimized Tree [invented in 2002],

2. EncCon Tree 2D [invented in 2004],

3. Radial Edgeless Tree [invented in 2007],

4. EncCon Tree 3D [invented in 2007],

5. Treemap Bar Chart [invented in 2009] ( made a Significant Social Impact worldwide),

6. Angular Treemap [invended in 2012],

7. Golden Rectangle Treemap [invended in 2017] and

8. Pansy Tree [invended in 2020].

The "Treemap Bar Chart" technique published in 2009 has become a very popular and modern Business Intelligent (BI) Tool disseminated to millions of business users, through the commercialization by Microsoft Co., Tableau Software and other top software companies in the world, for providing them with business intelligence and advanced data analytics facility.

This information has been contributed by Mr Huang.