Publications

2026

InfoAlign: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Storytelling with Infographics figure

InfoAlign: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Storytelling with Infographics

Jielin Feng, Xinwu Ye, Qianhui Li, Verena Prantl, Jun-Hsiang Yao, Yuheng Zhao, Yun Wang, Siming Chen
CHI Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
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Intelligent Drill-Down: Large Language Model-Driven Drill-Down Technique for Human-AI Collaborative Visual Exploration figure

Intelligent Drill-Down: Large Language Model-Driven Drill-Down Technique for Human-AI Collaborative Visual Exploration

Zhijun Zheng, Tian Qiu, Yuheng Zhao, Siming Chen
PacificVis Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, 2026
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2025

Language May Be All Omics Needs: Harmonizing Multimodal Data for Omics Understanding with CellHermes figure

Language May Be All Omics Needs: Harmonizing Multimodal Data for Omics Understanding with CellHermes

Yicheng Gao*, Weixu Wang*, Yuheng Zhao*, Kejing Dong*, Caihua Shan, Weizhong Zheng, Till Richter, Zekai Li, Siming Chen, Fabian J. Theis, Qi Liu
bioRxiv, 2025
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KinemaFX: A Kinematic-Driven Interactive System for Particle Effect Exploration and Customization figure

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

Yifei Zhang, Lin-Ping Yuan, Yuheng Zhao, Jielin Feng, Siming Chen
UIST The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2025
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Position Paper: Validatory Visualization for Human-GenAI Co-Creation figure

Position Paper: Validatory Visualization for Human-GenAI Co-Creation

Yu Zhang, Yuheng Zhao, Yuhan Guo, Guozheng Li, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
VIS Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS, 2025
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SceneLoom: Communicating Data with Scene Context figure

SceneLoom: Communicating Data with Scene Context

Lin Gao, Leixian Shen, Yuheng Zhao, Jiexiang Lan, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen
VIS TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'25), 2026
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SmartMLVs: LLM Enabled Multiple Linked Views Generation for Interactive Visualization figure

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 IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, 2025
Best Paper Honorable Mention
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Social Media Island: Interactive User Profiling and Information Diffusion Exploration with 3D Visual Metaphors figure

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 IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, 2025
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2024

LightVA: Lightweight Visual Analytics with LLM Agent-Based Task Planning and Execution figure

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
TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
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PCLVis: Visual Analytics of Process Communication Latency in Large-Scale Simulation figure

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
arXiv arXiv, 2024
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LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics figure

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
TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
ESI Highly Cited (top 1%)
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OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations figure

OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations

Yu Zhang, Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie, Yuheng Zhao, Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
VIS TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'23), 2024
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2023

Visual Exploration of the Reading Comprehension Question Answering Model for Improving the Interpretability figure

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
TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023
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ContextWing: Pair-wise Visual Comparison for Evolving Sequential Patterns of Contexts in Social Media Data Streams figure

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
CSCW Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2023
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2022

Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization figure

Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization

Yuheng Zhao, Jinjing Jiang, Yi Chen, Richen Liu, Yalong Yang, Xiangyang Xue, Siming Chen
VI Visual Informatics, 2022
Most Downloaded Paper
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2021

Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration of Social Media Text and Events figure

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
VIS Proceedings of IEEE VIS (VAST Challenge), 2021
Award for Strong Human-in-the-Loop Analysis Methodology
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A Visualization System for Spatio-temporal Situation Awareness figure

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
VIS Proceedings of IEEE VIS (VAST Challenge), 2021
Outstanding Comprehensive Solution Award
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