Background
I received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the supervision of Prof. Vijay Natarajan in 2018. The title of my Ph.D. thesis was “Geometric and Topological Methods for Biomolecular Visualization”. Before that, I completed Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from the same institute, with my thesis project focussing on extraction of symmetric structures in scalar fields. Since Nov. 2018, I have been part of the SciVis group at Norrköping as a post-doctoral fellow.
Goal and Research interests
My goal is to pursue interdisciplinary research using my skills as a computer scientist to solve problems from different scientific domains. I want to contribute in a tangible way towards devising solutions to major challenges faced by humanity today and in the future. My primary research interest is in the area of data analysis and visualization. Specifically, I am interested in using techniques from the field of scientific visualization, computational topology and computational geometry to solve data analysis problems in varied application domains like climate science, medical science, structural biology and material science. I am also interested in designing and implementing parallel algorithms to handle large datasets more efficiently.
Publications
Aromatic hexazine [N6]4− anion featured in the complex structure of the high-pressure potassium nitrogen compound K9N56 Dominique Laniel, Florian Trybel, Yuqing Yin, Timofey Fedotenko, Saiana Khandarkhaeva, Andrey Aslandukov, Georgios Aprilis, Alexei I Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Carlotta Giacobbe, Eleanor Lawrence Bright, Konstantin Glazyrin, Michael Hanfland, Jonathan Wright, Ingrid Hotz, Igor A Abrikosov, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Natalia Dubrovinskaia Nature Chemistry, 2023 Continuous scatterplot operators for bivariate analysis and study of electronic transitions Mohit Sharma, Talha Bin Masood, Signe Sidwall Thygesen, Mathieu Linares, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023 Subject-specific brain activity analysis in fMRI data using merge trees Farhan Rasheed, Daniel Jönsson, Emma Nilsson, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis 2022), Oklahoma City, USA, pages 113-123, 2022 Honorable mention award Towards benchmark data generation for feature tracking in scalar fields Emma Nilsson, Jonas Lukasczyk, Talha Bin Masood, Christoph Garth, Ingrid Hotz Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis 2022), Oklahoma City, USA, pages 103-112, 2022 Exploring cyclone evolution with hierarchical features Emma Nilsson, Jonas Lukasczyk, Wito Engelke, Talha Bin Masood, Gunilla Svensson, Rodrigo Caballero, Christoph Garth, Ingrid Hotz Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis 2022), Oklahoma City, USA, pages 92-102, 2022 A topology-based approach towards subject-specific brain activity analysis in fMRI data Farhan Rasheed, Daniel Jönsson, Emma Nilsson, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz Poster, Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM), 2022 Level of detail exploration of electronic transition ensembles using hierarchical clustering Signe Sidwall Thygesen, Talha Bin Masood, Mathieu Linares, Vijay Natarajan, Ingrid Hotz EuroVis 2022, Computer Graphics Forum, 41(3), pages 333-344, 2022 Geometry aware merge tree comparisons for time-varying data with interleaving distances Lin Yan, Talha Bin Masood, Farhan Rasheed, Ingrid Hotz, Bei Wang IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022 Morse theory-based segmentation and fabric quantification of granular materials Karran Pandey, Talha Bin Masood, Saurabh Singh, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan, Tejas G. Murthy Granular Matter, 24(1), 27, 2022 Segmentation Driven Peeling for Visual Analysis of Electronic Transitions Mohit Sharma, Talha Bin Masood, Signe Sidwall Thygesen, Mathieu Linares, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), New Orleans, USA, pages 96-100, 2021 An Overview of the Topology ToolKit Talha Bin Masood, Joseph Budin, Martin Falk, Guillaume Favelier, Christoph Garth, Charles Gueunet, Pierre Guillou, Lutz Hofmann, Petar Hristov, Adhitya Kamakshidasan, Christopher Kappe, Pavol Klacansky, Patrick Laurin, Joshua A. Levine, Jonas Lukasczyk, Daisuke Sakurai, Maxime Soler, Peter Steneteg, Julien Tierny, Will Usher, Jules Vidal, Michal Wozniak In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI. Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood, Filip Sadlo, Julien Tierny (Eds.), Springer Nature, Mathematics and Visualization Series, pages 327–342, 2021 Report of the TopoInVis TTK Hackathon: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Perspectives Jonas Lukasczyk, Jakob Beran, Wito Engelke, Martin Falk, Anke Friederici, Christoph Garth, Lutz Hofmann, Ingrid Hotz, Petar Hristov, Wiebke Köpp, Talha Bin Masood, Małgorzata Olejniczak, Paul Rosen, Jan-Tobias Sohns, Tino Weinkauf, Kilian Werner, Julien Tierny In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI. Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood, Filip Sadlo, Julien Tierny (Eds.), Springer Nature, Mathematics and Visualization Series, pages 359–373, 2021 Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood, Filip Sadlo, Julien Tierny Mathematics and Visualization Series, Springer, 2021 Topology-Based Feature Design and Tracking for Multi-center Cyclones Wito Engelke, Talha Bin Masood, Jakob Beran, Rodrigo Caballero, Ingrid Hotz In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI. Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood, Filip Sadlo, Julien Tierny (Eds.), Springer Nature, Mathematics and Visualization Series, pages 71–85, 2021 Scalar field comparison with topological descriptors: Properties and applications for scientific visualization Lin Yan, Talha Bin Masood, Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, Farhan Rasheed, Vijay Natarajan, Ingrid Hotz, Bei Wang EuroVis 2021, Computer Graphics Forum, 40(3), pages 599-633, 2021 Visual analysis of electronic densities and transitions in molecules Talha Bin Masood, Signe Sidwall Thygesen, Mathieu Linares, Alexei I. Abrikosov, Vijay Natarajan, Ingrid Hotz EuroVis 2021, Computer Graphics Forum, 40(3), pages 287-298, 2021 Topological analysis of density fields: An evaluation of segmentation methods Alexei I. Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Martin Falk, Ingrid Hotz MolVA 2021, Computers & Graphics, 98, pages 231-241, 2021 High-pressure synthesis of Dirac materials: Layered van der Waals bonded BeN4 polymorph Maxim Bykov, Timofey Fedotenko, Stella Chariton, Dominique Laniel, Konstantin Glazyrin, Michael Hanfland, Jesse S. Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Alexander F. Goncharov, Alena V. Ponomareva, Ferenc Tasnádi, Alexei I. Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz, Alexander N. Rudenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Igor A. Abrikosov Physical Review Letters, 126(17), 175501, 2021 Continuous histograms for anisotropy of 2D symmetric piece-wise linear tensor fields Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz In Anisotropy Across Fields and Scales. Evren Özarslan, Andrea Fuster, Thomas Schultz, Eugene Zhang (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Mathematics and Visualization Series. pages 39-70, 2021 Cover Image Parallel computation of alpha complexes for biomolecules Talha Bin Masood, Tathagata Ray, Vijay Natarajan Computational Geometry, 90, 101651, 2020 Parallel computation of alpha complexes for biomolecules Talha Bin Masood, Tathagata Ray, Vijay Natarajan 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2020, LIPIcs, 164, pages 17:1-17:16, 2020 Edit distance between merge trees Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, Talha Bin Masood, Adhitya Kamakshidasan, Vijay Natarajan IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(3), pages 1518-1531, 2020 Visual analysis of charge flow networks for complex morphologies Sathish Kottravel, Martin Falk, Talha Bin Masood, Mathieu Linares, Ingrid Hotz EuroVis 2019, Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3), pages 479-489, 2019 Approximation algorithms for Max Morse matching Abhishek Rathod, Talha Bin Masood, Vijay Natarajan Computational Geometry, 61, pages 1-23, 2017 An integrated geometric and topological approach to connecting cavities in biomolecules Talha Bin Masood, Vijay Natarajan PacificVis 2016: Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pages 104-111, 2016 Extraction of robust voids and pockets in proteins Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, Talha Bin Masood, Harish Doraiswamy, Siddharth Patel, Raghavan Varadarajan, Vijay Natarajan In Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences III. Lars Linsen, Hans-Christian Hege, and Bernd Hamann (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Mathematics and Visualization Series, pages 329–349, 2016 Cover Image ChExVis: a tool for molecular channel extraction and visualization Talha Bin Masood, Sankaran Sandhya, Nagasuma Chandra, Vijay Natarajan BMC Bioinformatics, 16:119, 2015 Facet-JFA: Faster computation of discrete Voronoi diagrams Talha Bin Masood, Hari Krishna Malladi, Vijay Natarajan ICVGIP 2014: Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 2014 Scalar field visualization via extraction of symmetric structures Talha Bin Masood, Dilip Matthew Thomas, Vijay Natarajan Computer Graphics International (CGI'2013), The Visual Computer 29 (6), 761-771, 2013 
