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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.

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!

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.

Happy and honored to be invited to join the program committee of IEEE VIS 2026!

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.

I join the Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI) at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow!

Honored to be invited to the program committee of the IEEE VIS Arts Program 2025!

I successfully defend my PhD on Theoretical and Applied Research of Visualizations for Fixed-order Event Sequence.

I serve as a student volunteer for IEEE VIS 2024. See you in Tampa (Updated: Virtual). I'll also present our TVCG paper A Comparative Study on Fixed-order Event Sequence Visualizations: Gantt, Extended Gantt, and Stringline Charts, and co-organize a panel What Do Visualization Art Projects Bring to the VIS Community?. Looking forward to seeing you at VIS!

I give an invited talk, From Concrete to Ambiguous and Reverse, at the School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University.

Our panel proposal, What Do Visualization Art Projects Bring to the VIS Community?, is accepted by IEEE VIS 2024! Hope to discuss about the impacts of visualization art projects to the community with you during IEEE VIS!

I arrived in Denver to attend SIGGRAPH 2024. Our work Loss of Sonnet 18 will be exhibited in Art Gallery during the conference. The exhibition is at the Experience Hall, the Colorado Convention Center, during Jul. 28 - Aug. 1, 2024. I will also provide an artist talk, on Jul 31 at Room 203.

I serve as a student volunteer in ChinaVis 2024, during July 22-25. See you in Hong Kong, China :D And, our art piece, Posts with No Response: Island of Loneliness, will be exhibited at Lee Shau Kee Library, HKUST, during July 19-25.

Our paper, Does This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations, is accepted by IEEE VIS 2024!

I serve as a student volunteer in EuroVis 2024, during May 27-31. See you in SDU, Odense :D

Our project, Loss of Sonnet 18, is accepted by SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery! It will be exhibited during July 28 - August 1, at Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado. Looking forward to see you in Denver!

Our paper, Understanding Nonlinear Collaboration between Human and AI Agents: A Co-design Framework for Creative Design, is accepted by ACM CHI 2024!

Our paper, A Comparative Study on Fixed-order Event Sequence Visualizations: Gantt, Extended Gantt, and Stringline Charts, is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)!

I arrived in Edinburgh to attend Information+ Conference 2023. Our work Posts with No Response: The Island of Loneliness will be exhibited during the conference The exhibition is at the Inspace, Informatics Forum, during Nov. 21-23, 2023. I will also be a student volunteer during the conference.

I arrived in Paris and start my visiting in the Aviz Team, Inria, and will be supervised by Dr. Petra Isenberg. Excited for the next several months!

I arrived in Melbourne to attend IEEE VIS 2023. Our work Posts with No Response: The Island of Loneliness will be exhibited in VIS Arts Program and presented during the VIS conference. The exhibition is at the Library at the Dock Gallery during October 4-29, 2023. The presentation is on Thu, October 26, 2023 — 10:45 AM-12:00 PM at Room 103.

Our work, Post with No Response: Island of Loneliness, is accepted for Infomation+ Conference Exhibition and will be installed in Edinburgh, UK at Inspace from November 22-24, 2023.

Our work, Post with No Response: Island of Loneliness, is accepted by both Pictorial and Exhibition tracks in IEEE VIS Arts Program and will be installed in Melbourne, Austrilia at Library at the Dock Gallery during October, 04-29, 2023.

I give an invited talk, Visualization × Art, at the School of Design and Innovation, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.

Our work, Explore Mindfulness without Deflection, joins Electric Dreams, the 1st CMA International Symposium and Exhibition, online.

Our paper, SmartShots: An Optimization Approach for Generating Videos with Data Visualizations Embedded, is published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS).

I start as a research intern at JD Intelligent Cities Research, Beijing, working on visual analytics for urban computing with Dr. Jie Bao and Prof. Yu Zheng.

Two of our works are at IEEE VIS 2021 (virtual): I present our paper A Visualization Approach for Monitoring Order Processing in E-Commerce Warehouse, and our pictorial Explore Mindfulness without Deflection: A Data Art Based on the Books of Songs is presented and exhibited in the VIS Arts Program.

Our paper, Nebula: A Coordinating Grammar of Graphics, is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)!

Two of our works are at IEEE VIS 2020 (virtual): I present the short paper Narrative Transitions in Data Videos, and What Makes a Data-GIF Understandable? appears as a full paper in TVCG.

Our extended abstract, SmartShots: Enabling Automatic Generation of Videos with Data Visualizations Embedded, is presented at ACM Multimedia 2020.

I start as a research intern at Cainiao Smart Logistics, Alibaba Group, building visual analytics for order-processing monitoring.

I start as a research intern at Alibaba DAMO Academy, working on data-video generation and augmentation.

I start my Ph.D. at the Interactive Data Group, Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Yingcai Wu.

I present Design Guidelines for Augmenting Short-form Videos using Animated Data Visualizations at ChinaVis 2019 in Chengdu.

I receive my B.Eng. in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University.

At ChinaVis 2018 in Shanghai, I present Toward the Better Modeling and Visualization of Uncertainty for Streaming Data and show our data art A Gear-like Storyline of Inception in the art exhibition.