Jinrong Xie

Research Scientist, eBay CoreAI

ABOUT

Updates

Dec. 2018 What Black Friday on eBay Looked Like From Space - Visualization of eBay transaction based on the real-time interactive visualization engine (Salesmap) I created in 2016.
Sept. 2018 We've open-sourced HeadGazeLib - A technology that uses head motion to navigate user interface on iPhone X:
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Mar. 2018 ShipAR is now on production eBay mobile app, media coverage:
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Sept. 2017 Our Skunkworks project - ShipAR has won the 2nd place in Hackweek and Peoples Choice's Award in annual Skunkwork Expo
Feb. 2018 One of my PhD topics - Interactive Ray Casting of Geodesic Grids is now open sourced.
July 2017 Hackweek, 2nd place, eBay Inc.
Dec. 2016 SkunkWorks 2016 Excellence in Innovation Award, eBay Inc
Oct. 2016 One TVCG paper is accepted
Mar. 2016 I'm currently working at eBay Data Service and Solution team.
Mar. 2016 Submitted PhD dissertation, and is officially Dr. Xie.
Jan. 2016 PacificVis paper is accepted and will be presented on PacificVis 2016 at Taiwan.
Oct. 2015 Both LDAV and TVCG papers are accepted and will be presented on VIS 2015 at Chicago.
Aug. 2015 LDAV 2015 paper get in.
Aug. 2015 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest, Honorable Mention [report]
Jun. ~ Sep. 2015 Intern at eBay, San Jose, CA
Aug. 2014 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest, Honorable Mention

Publication

	A Combined Eulerian-Lagrangian Data Representation for Large-scale Applications Franz Sauer, Jinrong Xie, Kwan-Liu Ma In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2620975 [Data models] [Hybrid structure] [Spatial data indexing structures] [Correlation] [Scientific visualization] [Paper]
	Advanced Visualization Techniques and Data Representations for Large Scale Scientific Data Jinrong Xie Committee Member: Kwan-Liu Ma (Chair), Bernd Hammand, Nelson Max doi: 10124372 [In-situ visualization] [Multi-resolution] [Parallel algorithm] [Scientific visualization] [Spatial data indexing structures] [Volume rendering] [PhD Dissertation]
	An Integrated Visualization System for Interactive Analysis of Large, Heterogeneous Cosmology Data Annie Preston, Ramyar Ghods, Jinrong Xie, Franz Sauer, Nick Leaf, Kwan-Liu Ma, Steve Rangel, Eve Kovacs, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) doi: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2016.7465250 [Cosmology] [Particle Rendering] [Volume Rendering] [Halo] [Filament] [Merger Tree] [Heavy Birth] [Paper] [Slides (coming soon)] [Demo]
	Fast Uncertainty-driven Large-scale Volume Feature Extraction on Desktop PCs Jinrong Xie, Franz Sauer, Kwan-Liu Ma In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) co-located with IEEE VIS, Oct. 2015 doi: 10.1109/LDAV.2015.7348067 [Segmentation] [multi-resolution] [feature extraction] [hierarchical clustering] [superpixel] [supervoxel] [Paper] [Slides] [Best Paper Honorable Mention] [Photo]
	Scalable Parallel Distance Field Construction for Large-Scale Applications Hongfeng Yu, Jinrong Xie, Kwan-Liu Ma, Hemanth Kolla, and Jacqueline H. Chen In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2417572 [distance field] [distance transform] [in-situ visualization] [spatial data structures] [scientific visualization] [Paper] [Slides] [Photo] [Software]
	Visualizing Large 3D Geodesic Grid Data with Massively Distributed GPUs Jinrong Xie, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan-Liu Ma In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) co-located with IEEE VIS, Nov. 2014 doi: 10.1109/LDAV.2014.7013198 [Distributed GPU volume rendering] [Spherical Quadtree] [Ocean simulation] [Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)] [Paper] [Slides] [Demo] [Photo]
	SPACE: SPatial Atmospheric Cloud Explorer Jinrong Xie, Franz Sauer, Hendrik Schroots, Chuan Wang, Shimin Wang, Kwan-Liu Ma IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest 2014 [Visualization Contest] [Geo-science Visualization] [Volcano Eruption] [Paper] [Demo]
	Interactive Ray Casting of Geodesic Grids Jinrong Xie, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan-Liu Ma Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), vol. 32, no. 3pt4, pp. 481-490, June, 2013 doi: 10.1111/cgf.12135 [Volume rendering] [Geodesic grids] [GPU ray casting] [Climate visualization] [Global Cloud Resolving Model (GCRM)] [Paper] [Errata] [Source Code] [Slides] [Demo] [Photo] [Presentation]
	Parallel Analysis Tools for Ultra-Large Climate Data Sets Robert Jacob, Jayesh Krishna, Xiabing Xu, Sheri Mickelson, Tim Tautges, Mike Wilde, Rob Latham, Ian Foster, Rob Ross, Mark Hereld, (Argonne National Laboratory) Pavel Bochev, Kara Peterson, Mark Taylor (Sandia National Lab.) Karen Schuchardt, Jian Yin (Pacific Northwest National Lab.) Don Middleton, Mary Haley, David Brown, Richard Brownrigg, Wei Huang, Dennis Shea, Mariana Vertenstein (NCAR), Kwan-Liu Ma, Jinrong Xie (UC-Davis) European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 04/2013 [Poster] [Others]
	Bringing Task and Data Parallelism to Analysis of Climate Model Output Robert L. Jacob, Jayesh Krishna, Xiabing Xu, Sheri A. Mickelson, Tim Tautges, Mike Wilde, Robert Latham, Ian T. Foster, Robert B. Ross, Mark Hereld, Jay Walter Larson, Pavel B. Bochev, Kara Peterson, Mark A. Taylor, Karen Schuchardt, Jain Yin, Don Middleton, Mary Haley, David Brown, Wei Huang, Dennis G. Shea, Richard Brownrigg, Mariana Vertenstein, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jinrong Xie SC Companion 2012: 1493-1494 [Poster] [Abstract]

Gallery

Industry Experience

	eBay, San Jose, CA Research Scientist, CoreAI AR/VR, Deep Learning, Big-data Analytics and Visualization June 2015 ~ present
	HP Lab, Palo Alto, CA Analytics Lab Research Associate Intern June ~ Oct. 2014
	NVIDIA, San Clara, CA GPU architecture Intern June ~ Sept. 2013

Awards and Honors

2017 Skunkworks, Peoples Choice's Award , eBay Inc.
2017 Hackweek, 2nd place, eBay Inc. [award]
2016 SkunkWorks Excellence in Innovation Award, eBay Inc. [award]
2015 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest Honorable Mention [award]
2015 LDAV Best Paper Honorable Mention [award]
2014 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest , Runner-up, Honorable Mention [award] [demo]
Graduate Student Travel Award, UCDavis, 2013, 2014, 2015
Second-class Award of Honor for Graduates, Zhejiang Univ. 2010
Winner of the 2nd Zhejiang Nokia Mobile Application & Innovation Contest, Zhejiang Univ. 2008.

Talks

Paper presentation (internal), 2017 eBay Amplify, San Jose, CA
Paper presentation, 2015 SciVis, Chicago
Intern presentation, 2015, eBay, San Jose, CA
Paper presentation, 2014 LDAV, Paris, France
Intern presentation, 2014, HP Lab, Palo Alto, CA
Intern presentation, 2013, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA
Paper presentation, 2013 Eurovis, Leipzig, Germany
Invited talk, 2011, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
CScADS Summer 2011 Workshops, Lake Tahoe, CA

Services

Useful Resource

UCDavis Thesis or Dissertation Latex Template (v1.2 dated 2013/08/18)