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PhD candidate.
Research Area
My main focus is on intelligent data analysis interfaces, serving as a bridge between human analysts and AI agents across diverse domains problems. I combine methods of Visualization , Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction to build versatile and intelligent data analysis workflow and interfaces.
Positions
2021–2022
Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Research Assistant, FDUVIS Lab
Mentor:
Siming Chen
[Visual Analytics, Text Data Mining]
2023
Huawei Research
Shanghai, China
Research Intern
Mentor:
Yu Zhang
[Language Models, Human-AI Collaboration, Visual Analytics, Insight Recommendation]
Education
2022–Present
Ph.D. candidate in Statistics-Machine Learning Track, Fudan University
Shanghai, CN
Advised by Siming Chen Member of the FDUVIS Lab.
2020–2021
M.S. in Data-driven Modeling (Hornored Class), The Hong Kong University of Science AND Technology
Hong Kong SAR, CN
Advised by Wong Kwok Yee Michael Statistics, Machine learning, Spatio-temporal Prediction, etc.
2016–2020
B.S. in Information and Computing Science (Hornored Class), HuaZhong Agricultural University
Wuhan, CN
Mathematical Modeling, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.
Awards
2023
The Doctoral Scholarship of FDU - First Prize
2023
The 9th China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - Gold Award
2021
IEEE VAST Challenge MC2 - Outstanding Comprehensive Solution Award
A Visualization System for Spatio-temporal Situation Awareness
2021
IEEE VAST Challenge MC3 - Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology
Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration of Social Media Text and Events
2021
Fudan University Doctoral Forum of Data Science - Bronze Award
2020
Outstanding Admission Scholarship of HKUST
2019
The 4th China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - The Best Design Prize
Conference
C5
Social Media Island: Interactive User Profiling and Information Diffusion Exploration with 3D Visual Metaphors
Jinjing Jiang*, Yuheng Zhao*, Jun-Hsiang Yao, Huiting Wang, Xuexi Wang, Lana Blue, Chen Guo, Xudong Li, Siming Chen.
PacificVis , 2025.
C4
OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations
Yu Zhang , Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie,
Yuheng Zhao , Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'23) , 2023.
C3
ContextWing: Pair-wise Visual Comparison for Evolving Sequential Patterns of Contexts in Social Media Data Streams
Yuheng Zhao , Xinyu Wang, Chen Guo, Min Lu, Siming Chen.
Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'23) , 2023.
C2
Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration of Social Media Text and Events
Lei Peng,
Yuheng Zhao , Yijie Hou, Qinghong Wang, Siqi Shen, Xingui Lai, Junting Gao, Jiaqi Dong, Ziyue Lin, Siming Chen.
Proceedings of IEEE VIS, IEEE VAST Challenge 2021 - Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology , 2021.
C1
A Visualization System for Spatio-temporal Situation Awareness
Junting Gao, Siqi Shen, Xingui Lai, Qinghong Wang, Ziyue Lin, Lei Peng, Yijie Hou,
Yuheng Zhao , Jiaqi Dong, Siming Chen.
Proceedings of IEEE VIS, IEEE VAST Challenge 2021 - Award for Outstanding Comprehensive MC2 Submission. , 2021.
Journal
J5
LightVA: Lightweight Visual Analytics with LLM Agent-Based Task Planning and Execution
Yuheng Zhao , Junjie Wang, Linbing Xiang, Xiaowen Zhang, Zifei Guo, Cagatay Turkay,
Yu Zhang , Siming Chen.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 2024.
J4
PCLVis: Visual Analytics of Process Communication Latency in Large-Scale Simulation
Chongke Bi, Xin Gao, Baofeng Fu,
Yuheng Zhao , Siming Chen, Ying Zhao, Yunhai Wang.
Computational Visual Media (CVMJ) , 2024.
J3
LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics
Yuheng Zhao , Yixing Zhang,
Yu Zhang , Xinyi Zhao, Junjie Wang, Zekai Shao, Cagatay Turkay, Siming Chen.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 2024.
J2
Visual Exploration of the Reading Comprehension Question Answering Model for Improving the Interpretability
Zekai Shao, Shuran Sun,
Yuheng Zhao , Siyuan Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Cagatay Turkay, Siming Chen.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 2023.
J1
Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization
Yuheng Zhao , Jinjing Jiang, Yi Chen, Richen Liu, Yalong Yang, Xiangyang Xue, Siming Chen.
Visual Informatics , 2022.
Teaching
2021 Autumn
Data Visualization and Application
Fudan University
Teaching Assitant,
80 students
Developed and presented tutorials on visual analytics tools, HTML, and D3.js. Graded assignments.
Service
Conference Reviewer: ACM CHI 2024, IEEE PacificVis 2024, ChinaVis 2023.