Exhibition
Two of our artworks, Symbiotic Traces: An Ecological Record of Language Model Training and Effort, are accepted by the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track! Find them in Sydney this December.
Junxiu Tang唐俊修
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, working with Prof. Dashun Wang. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2024, advised by Prof. Yingcai Wu at the Interactive Data Group, and my B.Eng. in Digital Media Technology from ZJU in 2019. During my Ph.D., I visited the Aviz team at Inria, working with Dr. Petra Isenberg.
My research studies how interactive visualization helps people communicate and make sense of data. It spans three connected areas: data-driven insight extraction, through visual analytics for domain experts; narrative development, through storytelling and communication around data; and expressive creation, through data-driven art and video that bring data to a broad audience. At CSSI, my current work combines the validation of AI-for-science systems with decision-support tools for research-funding stakeholders. I am also increasingly interested in how AI can support research, design, and collaboration.
News
Service
Glad to be invited as a program committee member for ACM IUI 2027, the IEEE VIS Arts Program 2026, and the posters track of IEEE VIS 2026!
Paper
Our paper, Diving Deep into Time: Temporal Arrangements for Embedded Visualization in Swimming Videos, is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)! It grows out of my visit to the Aviz team at Inria.
Service
Happy and honored to be invited to join the program committee of IEEE VIS 2026!
Talk
I attended the Data | Art Symposium at Harvard University and gave a PechaKucha presentation on Intersections of Logic and Expression: Bridging Science and Art through Data.
Publications
10 selected* equal contribution
NeurIPS Creative AISymbiotic Traces: An Ecological Record of Language Model Training
NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track, 2026
TVCGDiving Deep into Time: Temporal Arrangements for Embedded Visualization in Swimming Videos
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026
VISDoes This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE VIS, 2024
SIGGRAPH Art GalleryLoss of Sonnet 18
ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, 2024
TVCGA Comparative Study on Fixed-order Event Sequence Visualizations: Gantt, Extended Gantt, and Stringline Charts
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
CHIUnderstanding Nonlinear Collaboration between Human and AI Agents: A Co-design Framework for Creative Design
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
VISAPPosts with No Response: The Island of Loneliness
IEEE VIS Art Program - Exhibition and Pictorial, 2023
VISA Visualization Approach for Monitoring Order Processing in E-Commerce Warehouse
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE VIS, 2022
VISWhat Makes a Data-GIF Understandable?
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE VIS, 2021
Art
Impact
At CSSI I develop and maintain InnovationInsights, an AI-powered visual analytics platform that helps universities find researchers and research with untapped commercial potential, onboarding their technology transfer offices and turning their feedback into new features. It runs as part of the Northwestern Innovation Institute’s Bridge program, with about twenty partner universities, among them Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, UCLA, and the University of Chicago.
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World View
Work
- Jun 2025 – PresentEvanston, USPostdoctoral FellowCenter for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern UniversityWorking with Prof. Dashun Wang.
- Jun 2025 – PresentEvanston, USAffiliated Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
- Sep 2019 – Dec 2024Hangzhou, ChinaPh.D. in Computer ScienceInteractive Data Group, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang UniversitySupervised by Prof. Yingcai Wu.
- Nov 2023 – Jun 2024Palaiseau, France
- Sep 2014 – Jun 2019Hangzhou, ChinaB.Eng. in Digital Media Technology
Experience
- Feb 2022 – Jun 2022Beijing, ChinaResearch Intern, Software EngineerJD Intelligent Cities Research, Jing Dong TechnologyVisualization and visual analytics for urban computing, especially intelligent transportation and disease control. Supervised by Dr. Jie Bao and Prof. Yu Zheng.
- Sep 2019 – Dec 2021Hangzhou, ChinaResearch InternIn cooperation with DAMO Academy and Cainiao.
- Sep 2020 – Dec 2021Hangzhou, ChinaResearch InternCainiao Smart Logistics, Alibaba GroupVisual analytics for intelligent logistics, especially order-processing monitoring and optimization.
- Nov 2019 – Sep 2020Hangzhou, ChinaResearch InternAlibaba DAMO Academy, Alibaba GroupVisualization theory and intelligent methods for data-video generation and augmentation.
Service
- Co-organizer of the panel What Do Visualization Art Projects Bring to the VIS Community? at IEEE VIS 2024.
- Program committee member of IEEE VIS 2026, ACM IUI 2027, the IEEE VIS Arts Program 2025 and 2026, and the Short Papers and Posters tracks of IEEE VIS 2025.
- Conference reviewer for CHI 2024–2026, UIST 2026, CSCW 2025–2026, DIS 2026, Creativity & Cognition 2026, IEEE VIS 2022–2026, PacificVis 2024–2026, IEEE VR 2027, EuroVis 2026, VINCI 2026, ChinaVis 2022–2026, and the NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2026.
- Journal reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025–2026.
- Student volunteer at IEEE VIS 2024, ChinaVis 2024, EuroVis 2024, and Information+ 2023.
Teaching
- Teaching assistant for Cross Media Visualization and Information Visualization, Zhejiang University, 2020 and 2022; coordinator of the teaching assistants in 2020, and the event sequence visualization session in 2022.
- Teaching assistant for the International Visualization Summer School, Zhejiang University, 2019 to 2021; coordinator of the teaching assistants in 2021.