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Conference Committee

General Chair 
Terry YooNational Institutes of Health
Vice Chair 
Jesus J CabanWalter Reed National Military Medical Center
Program Chairs 
James AhrensLos Alamos National Laboratory
Gautam ChaudharyAlcon
Papers Chairs 
Gennady AndrienkoFraunhofer IAIS & City University London (VAST)
Shixia LiuTsinghua University (VAST)
John StaskoGeorgia Institute of Technology (VAST)
Niklas ElmqvistUniversity of Maryland, College Park (InfoVis)
Bongshin LeeMicrosoft Research (InfoVis)
Kwan-Liu MaUniversity of California, Davis (InfoVis)
James AhrensLos Alamos National Laboratory (SciVis)
Mike KirbyUniversity of Utah (SciVis)
Jos RoerdinkUniversity of Groningen (SciVis)
Posters Chairs 
Tobias SchreckGraz University of Technology (VAST)
Jing YangUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte (VAST)
Tim DwyerMonash University (InfoVis)
Petra IsenbergInria (InfoVis)
Gunther H. WeberLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (SciVis)
Xiaoru YuanPeking University (SciVis)
Panels Chairs 
Remco ChangTufts University (VAST)
Michael SedlmairUniversity of Vienna (InfoVis)
Heike LeitteKaiserslautern University (SciVis)
Tutorial Chairs 
Margit PohlVienna University of Technology (VAST)
Nathalie Henry RicheMicrosoft Research (InfoVis)
Joao CombaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (SciVis)
Workshop Chairs 
Natalia AndrienkoFraunhofer IAIS & City University London (VAST)
Enrico BertiniNYU Tandon School of Engineering (InfoVis)
Markus HadwidgerKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SciVis)
Arts Program Chairs 
Fanny ChevalierInria
Angus ForbesUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
VAST Challenge Chairs 
Kristin CookPacific Northwest National Laboratory
Georges GrinsteinUniversity of Massachusetts, Lowell
Mark WhitingPacific Northwest National Laboratory
SciVis Contest Chairs 
Christoph GarthUniversity of Kaiserslautern
Berk GeveciKitware
VDS Workshop Liaison 
Alexander LexUniversity of Utah
LDAV Symposium Liaison 
Hank ChildsUniversity of Oregon
VizSec Symposium Liaison 
Daniel BestPacific Northwest National Laboratory
BioVis Symposium Liaison 
G. Elisabeta MaraiUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
BELIV Workshop Liaison 
Michael SedlmairUniversity of Vienna
Vis in Practice Chairs 
Daniela OelkeSiemens AG (VAST)
Justin TalbotTableau Research (InfoVis)
Bernd HentschelRWTH Aachen University (SciVis)
Alan KeaheyIBM Research (SciVis)
Doctoral Colloquium Chairs 
Tatiana van LandesbergerTechnische Universität Darmstadt (VAST)
Pierre DragicevicInria (InfoVis)
G. Elisabeta MaraiUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (SciVis)
Fast Forward & Video Previews Chairs 
Jeremy BoyUN Global Pulse
Christoph GarthUniversity of Kaiserslautern
Tom PeterkaArgonne National Laboratory
Meetup Chairs 
Kresimir MatkovicVRVis (VAST)
Marc StreitJohannes Kepler University (InfoVis)
Abon Chaudhuri@WalmartLabs (SciVis)
Community Chairs 
Daniel BestPacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alex EndertGeorgia Institute of Technology
Jonathan WoodringLos Alamos National Laboratory
Student Volunteers Chairs 
Kate IsaacsUniversity of Arizona
Thomas Torsney-WeirUniversity of Vienna
John WenskovitchVirginia Tech
Publicity Chairs 
Wenwen DouUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte (VAST)
Alexander LexUniversity of Utah (InfoVis)
Jian ChenUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (SciVis)
VisKids Chairs 
Miriah MeyerUniversity of Utah
Tino WeinkaufKTH Stockholm
Steering Committee Liaisons 
Tamara MunznerUniversity of British Columbia (VIS)
Brian FisherSimon Fraser University (VAST)
Jason DykesCity University London (InfoVis)
Han-Wei ShenThe Ohio State University (SciVis)
Supporters Chairs 
Jörn KohlhammerFraunhofer IGD (VAST)
Rahul C. BasoleGeorgia Institute of Technology (InfoVis)
Allen SandersonUniversity of Utah (SciVis)
Finance Chairs 
Loretta AuvilUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maria VelezCA Technologies
Publication & Project Coordinator 
Meghan HaleyJunction Publishing
Web Chairs 
Samuel GratzlJohannes Kepler University Linz
Carlos ScheideggerUniversity of Arizona