IEEE VGTC 2013 Visualization Technical Achievement Award:

• Kwan-Liu Ma, Universty of California, Davis

IEEE VGTC 2013 Visualization Career Award:

• Gregory Nielson, Arizona State University

IEEE Meritorious Service Certificate:

• Rachel Brady, Duke University/ Cisco

IEEE Fellow:

• Claudio Silva, NYU-Poly

VAST Best Paper:

• WINNER: A Partition-Based Framework for Building and Validating Regression Models, Thomas Mühlbacher, Harald Piringer
• Honorable Mention: Temporal Event Sequence Simplification, Megan Monroe, Rongjian Lan, Hanseung Lee, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman
• Honorable Mention: Explainers: Expert Explorations with Crafted Projections, Michael Gleicher

InfoVis Best Paper:

• WINNER: LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings, Samuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister, Marc Streit
• Honorable Mention: Nanocubes for Real-Time Exploration of Spatiotemporal Datasets, Lauro Lins, James T. Klosowski, Carlos Scheidegger
• Honorable Mention: SoccerStories: A Kick-off for Visual Soccer Analysis, Charles Perin, Romain Vuillemot, Jean-Daniel Fekete

SciVis Best Paper:

• WINNER: Comparative Visual Analysis of Lagrangian Transport in CFD Ensembles, Mathias Hummel, Harald Obermaier, Christoph Garth, Kenneth I. Joy
• Honorable Mention: Adaptive Refinement of the Flow Map Using Sparse Samples, Samer S. Barakat, Xavier Tricoche
• Honorable Mention: Design by Dragging: An Interface for Creative Forward and Inverse Design with Simulation Ensembles, Dane Coffey, Chi-Lun Lin, Arthur G. Erdman, Daniel F. Keefe
• Honorable Mention: Ambient Volume Scattering, Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, Daniel Weiskopf

VAST Best Poster:

• ScagExplorer: Using Scagnostics to Cluster Huge Datasets, Tuan Nhon Dang, Leland Wilkinson

InfoVis Best Poster:

• Visualizing Dense Dynamic Networks with Matrix Cubes, Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriega, Jean-Daniel Fekete

SciVis Best Poster:

• WINNER: Lightness Constancy in Surface Visualization, Danielle Albers, Alper Sarikaya, Michael Gleicher
• Honorable Mention: überShadie: A Domain-Specific Language for General Volume Processing and Visualization on Heterogeneous Parallel Systems, Hyungseok Choi, Hanspeter Pfister, Won-Ki Jeong
• Honorable Mention: Volume Rendering with Advanced GPU Scheduling Strategies, Philip Voglreiter, Markus Steinberger, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg

IEEE/VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Awards:

• WINNER: Alexander Endert, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris North
  Semantic Interaction for Sensemaking: Inferring Analytical Reasoning
• RUNNER-UP: Zhicheng Liu, Georgia Tech. Advisor: John Stasko
  Network-Based Visual Analysis of Tubular Data
• Finalist: Jaegul Choo, Georgia Tech. Advisor: Hansun Park
  Integration of Computational Methods and Visual Analytics for Large-Scale High-Dimensional Data
• Finalist: Tiago Etiene, University of Utah. Advisor: Claudio Silva
  Towards the Theory and Practice of Verifying Visualizations

BioVis Symposium Best Paper:

• WINNER: neuroMap - Interactive Graph-Visualization of the Fruit Fly's Neural Circuit, Johannes Sorger, Katja Baehler, Florian Schulze, Tianxiao Liu, Barry Dickson
• Honorable Mention: HumMod Browser: An Exploratory Visualization Tool for the Analysis of Whole-Body Physiology Simulation Data, Keqin Wu, Jian Chen, William Pruett, Robert Hester

BioVis Symposium Best Poster:

LDAV Symposium Best Paper:

• WINNER: Efficient Parallel Volume Rendering of Large-Scale Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data, Nick Leaf, Venkatram Vishwanath, Joseph Insley, Mark Hereld, Michael Papka, Kwan-Liu Ma
• Honorable Mention: Graph-based Seed Scheduling for Out-of-core FTLE and Pathline Computation, Chun-Ming Chen, Han-Wei Shen
• Honorable Mention: An Analysis of Scalable GPU-Based Ray-Guided Volume Rendering, Thomas Fogal, Alexander Schiewe, Jens Krueger

LDAV Symposium Best Poster: