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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
2024
The Fudan University Guotai Jun'an Scholarship
2022, 2023, 2024
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 Freshman Scholarship of HKUST (Top 5%)
2019
The 4th China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - The Best Design Prize
Conference
C6
SmartMLVs: LLM Enabled Multiple Linked Views Generation for Interactive Visualization
Tian Qiu, Fen Wang, Shaohua Huang, Meng Guo,
Yuheng Zhao , Jincheng Li, Siming Chen.
PacificVis , 2025.
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.