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Hagen Tarner, PhD

Hagen Tarner holds a Computer Science PhD from the HCI group of University of Duisburg Essen. He was advised by Fabian Beck.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics from University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, and a Master of Science in Media Informatics from Berliner Hochschule für Technik.

You can find him on ResearchGate, Google Scholar, or Mastodon. His ORCID is 0000-0001-6240-560X.

My research interests include Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization techniques, and Computer Graphics.

Publications

 Interactive Evaluation and Contextualization of Software Performance
Hagen Tarner
Doctoral Dissertation, 2025.
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Evolution Paths Visualizing Runtime Evolution Paths in a Multidimensional Space
Hagen Tarner and Fabian Beck
Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
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Multiple Perspectives Visually Comparing Rendering Performance from Multiple Perspectives
Hagen Tarner, Valentin Bruder, Steffen Frey, Thomas Ertl, and Fabian Beck
27th International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2022
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Spike Spike – A code editor plugin highlighting fine-grained changes
Ronald Escobar Jaldin, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Hagen Tarner, Fabian Beck and Alexandre Bergel
10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization 2022
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Component Graph Visually Analyzing the Structure and Code Quality of Component-based Web Applications
Hagen Tarner, Daniel Van Den Bongard, and Fabian Beck
9th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization 2021
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Talking Realities Talking Realities: Audio Guides in Virtual Reality Visualizations
Shahid Latif, Hagen Tarner, and Fabian Beck
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Journal 2021
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Dynamic Graph Comparison Exploring a Multi-focus Visual Comparison of Dynamic Graphs
Hagen Tarner, Ivan Beschastnikh, and Fabian Beck
Poster Session of the 24th IEEE Visualization Conference 2020
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ViVaSD Visualizing Evolution and Performance Metrics on Method Level as Multivariate Data
Hagen Tarner, Veit Frick, Martin Pinzger, and Fabian Beck
13th Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution 2020
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Visual Comparison Exploring Visual Comparison of Multivariate Runtime Statistics
Hagen Tarner, Veit Frick, Martin Pinzger, and Fabian Beck
9th Symposium on Software Performance 2018
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Master Thesis Skizzenerkennung mit tiefen neuronalen Netzen
Hagen Tarner
Master Thesis, 2017.
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Teaching, Supervision & Service

In 2022 I was Community Chair, Session Chair (Open Tool Demo) and PC member of VISSOFT.

In 2020 I was a member of the Artifact Evaluation Track of VISSOFT.

Supervised Theses

Master
3D Visualization of Changes in Evolving Hierarchical Data
Visualisierung der Evolution von Software Performance Metriken im Source Code
Eine Visuelle Analyse Von Webframework-Komponenten Basierend Auf Ihren Abhängigkeiten Und Qualitätseigenschaften
Cascading Style Sheets: Automatisierte Analyse Der Code-Qualität Und Generierung Eines Bericht
Bachelor
Visuelle Analyse und Vergleich der zeitlichen Änderungen hierarchischer Daten

List of Lectures, Seminars, and Projects I worked on:

Master Project Groups
ViVaSD - Visualizing Variability in Software Dynamics
Talking Realities
Lectures and Exercises
Modelle der Informatik
Computergrafik
Informations- und Softwarevisualisierung
Seminars
Software Performance Monitoring
Software Visualization
Graph Visualization
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data

Experience

Non-academic work experience: