Publications

2025

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
IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis) 2025
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SmartMLVs: LLM Enabled Multiple Linked Views Generation for Interactive Visualization

Tian Qiu, Fen Wang, Shaohua Huang, Meng Guo, Yuheng Zhao, Jincheng Li, Siming Chen
IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis) 2025
Best Paper Honorable Mention
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SceneLoom: Communicating Data with Scene Context

Lin Gao, Leixian Shen, Yuheng Zhao, Jiexiang Lan, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS) 2025
PDF Project

ProactiveVA: Proactive Visual Analytics with LLM-Based UI Agent

Yuheng Zhao, Xueli Shu, Liwen Fan, Lin Gao, Yu Zhang, Siming Chen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS) 2025
PDF Project Video

KinemaFX: A Kinematic-Driven Interactive System for Particle Effect Exploration and Customization

Yifei Zhang, Lin-Ping Yuan, Yuheng Zhao, Jielin Feng, Siming Chen
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2025
PDF Project

2024

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
PDF Project

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
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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
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2023

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) 2023
PDF Project

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
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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) 2023
PDF Project HTML Bibtex arXiv: 2308.16053

2022

Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization

Yuheng Zhao, Jinjing Jiang, Yi Chen, Richen Liu, Yalong Yang, Xiangyang Xue, Siming Chen
Visual Informatics 2022
PDF Project

2021

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. in Virtual 2021
Outstanding Comprehensive Solution Award
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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 in Virtual 2021
Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology
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