Hello! I am Yuheng Zhao, a PhD candidate in Department of Data science at Fudan University. I am supervised by Prof. Siming Chen in FDUVIS Lab. Before that, I received my master degree with first class honors from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021, with major in Data-driven Modeling, advised by Prof. Wong Kwok Yee Michael. I have also taken a research internship at Huawei advised by Dr. Yu Zhang.
My research interest lies in harnessing the confluence of Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence to enhance data expression and comprehension. Specifically, I am focused on visual analytics, natural language processing and Human-AI collaboration. Lately, my primary focus has been on intelligent data analysis enhanced by foundation models.
🍒 Projects
LightVA is a lightweight VA framework through human-agent collaboration based on LLM agent-based task planning and execution.
LEVA is a framework that integrates LLMs to enhance user’s visual analytics workflow in three pivotal stages: onboarding, exploration, and summarization.
ContextWing is a visual analytics system which support pair-wise comparison in social media data streams.
A framework that summarizes how graphics, interaction, and visualization techniques support the visual construction of the metaverse and user-centric exploration.
📖 Publications
PacificVis, 2025. LightVA: Lightweight Visual Analytics with LLM Agent-Based Task Planning and Execution
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024. PCLVis: Visual Analytics of Process Communication Latency in Large-Scale Simulation
Computational Visual Media (CVMJ), 2024. LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024. OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'23), 2023. Visual Exploration of the Reading Comprehension Question Answering Model for Improving the Interpretability
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023. ContextWing: Pair-wise Visual Comparison for Evolving Sequential Patterns of Contexts in Social Media Data Streams
Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'23), 2023. Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization
Visual Informatics, 2022. Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration of Social Media Text and Events
Proceedings of IEEE VIS, IEEE VAST Challenge 2021 - Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology, 2021.
Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology A Visualization System for Spatio-temporal Situation Awareness
Proceedings of IEEE VIS, IEEE VAST Challenge 2021 - Award for Outstanding Comprehensive MC2 Submission., 2021.
Outstanding Comprehensive Solution Award