miriah meyer

Assistant Professor
School of Computing
University of Utah

Scientific Computing and
Imaging Institute

Warnock Engineering Building
72 S. Central Campus Dr, Rm 4887
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
miriah (at) cs (dot) utah (dot) edu

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bio

full papers

Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks. Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2012), 18(12): 2431-2440, 2012. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.

The Four-Level Nested Model Revisited: Blocks and Guidelines. Miriah Meyer, Michael Sedlmair, Tamara Munzner. Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), IEEE VisWeek 2012.

Aggregate Gaze Visualization with Real-time Heatmaps. Andrew Duchowski, Margaux Price, Miriah Meyer, Pilar Orero. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), 2012.

A Conservered Developmental Patterning Network Produces Quantitatively Different Output in Multiple Species of Drosophila. Charless Fowlkes, Kelly Eckenrode, Meghan Bragdon, Miriah Meyer, Zeba Wunderlich, Lisa Simirenko, Cris Luengo, Soile Keranen, Clara Henriquez, David Knowles, Mark Biggin, Michael Eisen, Angela DePace. PLoS Genetics, 7(10):e1002346, 2011.

MulteeSum: A Tool for Comparative Spatial and Temporal Gene Expression Data. Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner, Angela DePace, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2010), 16(6):908-917, 2010.

Pathline: A Tool for Comparative Functional Genomics. Miriah Meyer, Bang Wong, Mark Styczynski, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2010), 29(3):1043-1052, 2010.

Genome-wide synteny through highly sensitive sequence alignment: Satsuma. Manfred Grabherr, Pamela Russell, Miriah Meyer, Evan Mauceli, Jessica Alföldi, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh. Bioinformatics, 26(9):1145-1151, 2010.

MizBee: A Multiscale Synteny Browser. Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2009), 15(6):897-904, 2009. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.

A Framework for Exploring Numerical Solutions of Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Equations Using a GPU-based Approach. Allen Sanderson, Miriah Meyer, Robert M. Kirby, Chris Johnson. Computing and Visualization in Science, 12(4):155-170, 2009.

Particle-based Sampling and Meshing of Surfaces in Multimaterial Volumes. Miriah Meyer, Ross Whitaker, Robert M. Kirby, Christian Ledergerber, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), 14(6):1539-1546, 2008.

Volume MLS Ray Casting. Christian Ledergerber, Gael Guennebaud, Miriah Meyer, Moritz Bacher, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), 14(6):1539-1546, 2008.

Multimaterial Meshing of MRI Head Data for Bioelectric Field Simulations. Ross Whitaker, Robert M. Kirby, Jeroen Sinstra, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the 17th International Meshing Roundtable, 2008.

Topology, Accuracy, and Quality of Isosurface Meshes Using Dynamic Particles. Miriah Meyer, Robert M. Kirby, Ross Whitaker. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2007), 13(6):1704-1711, 2007.

Particle Systems for Efficient and Accurate High-Order Finite Element Visualization. Miriah Meyer, Blake Nelson, Robert M. Kirby, Ross Whitaker. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(5):1015-1026, 2007.

Entropy-based Particle Systems for Shape Correspondence. Josh Cates, Miriah Meyer, Tom Fletcher, Ross Whitaker. Proceedings of the Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MICCAI, pp90-99, 2006.

Robust Particle Systems for Curvature Dependent Sampling of Implicit Surfaces. Miriah Meyer, Pierre Georgel, Ross Whitaker. Proceedings of the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), pp124-133, 2005.

abstracts and short papers

Designing Visualizations for Biological Data. Miriah Meyer. Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks Symposium keynote, in Leonardo Transactions, MIT Press, to appear.

compreheNGSive: A Tool for Exploring Next-Gen Sequencing Variants. Alex Bigelow, Miriah Meyer, Nicola Camp. Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, IEEE VisWeek 2012.

Contributions, Methods, and Unique Characteristics of Design Studies. Miriah Meyer. Workshop on the Role of Theory in Information Visualization, IEEE VisWeek 2010.

Comparison of gene expression at cellular resolution in Drosophila reveals distinct transcriptional niches between species. Angela DePace, Charless Fowlkes, Cris Luengo, Soile Keränen, Clara Henriquez, Lisa Simirenko, Kelly Eckenrode1, Miriah Meyer, David Knowles, Mark Biggin, Jitendra Malik, Michael Eisen. 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, 2009.

dissertation and thesis

Dynamic Particle Systems for Adaptive Sampling of Implicit Surfaces. Miriah Meyer. PhD Dissertation, School of Computing, University of Utah, 2008.

Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster. Miriah Meyer. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 1999.

technical reports

Image-based Volume Rendering Using Opacity Light Fields. Miriah Meyer, Hanspeter Pfister, Charles Hansen, Chris Johnson. SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2005-002, University of Utah, 2005.