2015 Committee
Organizing Committee
General chairs
Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany
G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Paper chairs
Daniel Weiskopf, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany
Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium
Poster chairs
Alexander Lex, Harvard University, USA
Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Publication chairs
Cydney Nielsen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Primer/Tutorial chairs
Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA
Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia
Challenges chairs
Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia
Greg Carter, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
Data Contest chairs
Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA
Jason Bohland, Boston University, USA
Design Contest chairs
Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland
Ryo Sakai, Leuven University, Belgium
Industry and fundraising chairs
Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK
Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Hanchuan Peng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
Website chairs
Tengfei Yin, Seven Bridges Genomics, Cambridge, USA
Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Publicity chairs
Hendrik Strobelt, Harvard University, USA
Andreas Hildebrandt, University of Mainz, Germany
Steering Committee
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA
Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)
Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA
Program Committee
Danielle Albers Szafir , University of Wisconsin
Bilal Alsallakh, Vienna University of Technology
Chris Bartlett, Ohio State University
Bertjan Broeksema, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Stefan Bruckner, University of Bergen, Norway
Jian Chen, University of Maryland
Katja Bühler, VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung
Çagatay Demiralp, Stanford University
Inna Dubchak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Duke, University of Leeds
Jim Faeder, University of Pittsburgh
Angus Forbes, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School
Mohammad Ghoniem, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Nicholas Hamilton, University of Queensland
Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen
Julian Heinrich, CSIRO
Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh
Larry Hunter, University of Colorado
Radu Jianu, Florida International University
Fabrice Jossinet, University of Strasbourg
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University
Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories
Karsten Klein, Monash University
Robert Kuhn, University of California Santa Cruz
Alexander Lex, Harvard University
Lars Linsen, Jacobs University Bremen
Lydia Müller, University of Leipzig
Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University
Eamonn Maguire, CERN Geneva
Han Mulder, Wageningen University
Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia
Tim Nattkemper, Bielefeld University
Sergiy Nesterko, Harvard University
Benoît Otjacques, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Julius Parulek, University of Bergen
Jürgen Pleiss, University of Stuttgart
Yann Ponty, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Paris-Saclay
Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg
A. Johannes Pretorius, The University of Leeds
James Procter, University of Dundee
Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen
Francis Rowland, European Bioinformatics Institue
Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven
Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg
Falk Schreiber, Monash University
Joost Schymkowitz, VIB-KULeuven
Hendrik Strobelt, Harvard University
Cagatay Turkay, City University London
Jim Vallandingham, Bocoup
Corinna Vehlow, University of Stuttgart
Toni Verbeiren, KU Leuven
Ivan Viola, Vienna University of Technology
Ting Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
Tengfei Yin, Seven Bridges Genomics
Dirk Zeckzer, University of Leipzig
Simone Zorzan, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology