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Cecilia R. Aragon Staff Scientist, Visualization Group Computational Research Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 Note: this site is no longer being kept up to date. Please go to my new page at: http://vis.lbl.gov/~aragon   Research Interests Visual Analytics Information and Scientific Visualization Human-Computer Interaction   Education Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley       Advisor: Prof. Marti Hearst M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley B.S. with Honors, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology   Employment 2005 - present: Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. Research in visual analytics and information and scientific visualization with applications to supernova image data. 1996 - 2005: Computer Scientist, Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. (1996 - 2000: employed by Caelum Research Corp.) Research in human-computer interaction and information and scientific visualization with applications to aerospace. Group lead, Domain Exploration for the Information Design project. Data visualization, 2D/3D graphics and user interface software design and implementation for remote access and scientific collaboration software over very large heterogeneous databases of aeronautical and aerospace data. 1987 - 1996: Software Consultant, Aragon Consulting, Berkeley, California. Software development in 2D and 3D graphics, user interface design, image processing and aerodynamic modeling. 1991 - 1994: Founder and CEO, Aragon Aviation, Inc., Livermore, California. Founded professional aerobatic flight school. Managed staff of 24, developed aviation curriculum and provided flight instruction at all levels, supervised design and building of aircraft, test flew completed aircraft, performed at airshows and competitions in the U.S. and Europe.   Selected Publications Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization "Using Visualization in Cockpit Decision Support Systems," C. Aragon, IEEE SMC 2005: Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hawaii (2005). "Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study," C. Aragon and M. Hearst, CHI 2005: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, OR (2005). "Airflow Hazard Visualization for Helicopter Pilots: Flight Simulation Study Results," C. Aragon and K. Long, American Helicopter Society 61st Annual Forum, Grapevine, TX (2005). "Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots," C. Aragon, University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation (2004). More detailed thesis description with graphics and video. "Usability Evaluation of a Flight-Deck Airflow Hazard Visualization System," C. Aragon, 23rd IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Salt Lake City, UT (2004). Winner of "Best Student Paper" Award. "A Prototype Flight-Deck Airflow Hazard Visualization System," C. Aragon, SAE World Aviation Congress, Reno, NV (2004). "Data Visualization of Invisible Airflow Hazards During Helicopter Landing Operations," C. Aragon, Grace Hopper Conference, Chicago, IL (2004). "Prediction of aerodynamic coefficients for wind tunnel data using a genetic algorithm optimized neural network," T. Rajkumar, C. Aragon, J. Bardina, and R. Britten, Data Mining III, Third International Conference on Data Mining, A. Zanasi, C. Brebbia, N. Ebecken, and P. Melli, eds. (2002) 473-485. "Experimental and Computational Data Analysis in CHARLES and DARWIN," D. Korsmeyer, J. Walton, C. Aragon, A. Shaykevich, L. Chan, ISCA-97-, 13th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (1998). Theoretical Computer Science "Randomized Search Trees," R. Seidel and C. Aragon, Algorithmica 16 (1996) 464-497. "Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part II, Graph Coloring and Number Partitioning," D. S. Johnson, C. R. Aragon, L. A. McGeoch and C. Schevon, Operations Research, 39:3 (1991), 378-406. "Randomized Search Trees," C. Aragon and R. Seidel, Proc. 30th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (1989), 540-546. "Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning," D. S. Johnson, C. R. Aragon, L. A. McGeoch and C. Schevon, Operations Research, 37:6 (1989), 865-892. Scientific Visualization and Simulation "A Unified Approach to Building Accelerator Simulation Software for the SSC," V. Paxson, C. Aragon, S. Peggs, C. Saltmarsh, L. Schachinger, Proc. 1989 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (1989).     Invited Talks Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (Apr. 2005). Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (Mar. 2005). Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (Mar. 2005). Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Mar. 2005). Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Mar. 2005). Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots, Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (Feb. 2005). Making the Invisible Visible: Augmented-Reality Airflow Hazard Visualization for Pilots, Adaptive Displays Conference, SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA (Aug. 2004).     Awards and Honors Best Student Paper Award, 23rd IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2004 Eugene L. Lawler Award, 2004 U.S. patent pending for video image stabilization system (UnshakerTM) NASA Space Act Award (twice) Caelum Research Corporation Employee Excellence Award Bell Laboratories Graduate Fellowship National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship McKinney Prize in English Tau Beta Pi 4.0 undergraduate GPA National Merit Scholar United States Aerobatic Team (twice)