Hello! I am Liwenhan Xie (Shelly), a PhD candidate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Huamin Qu.
My research lies in information visualization and human-computer interaction, where I view visualization authoring as a form of end-user programming. I conduct empirical studies and develop interactive systems to empower both designers and casual users to create expressive and affective visualizations.
Latest ----------------------
😉 DataWink was accepted to IEEE VIS! [Website]
🤸♀️ Excited to be interning at Adobe Research Seattle this summer!
🙋 I passed my PhD thesis proposal! [About]
🥹 WaitGPT was featured in UIST teaser! Will talk more in Pittsburgh. [Website]
😎 Designed swags for VisLab’s 20th anniversary. [Inspiration] [Me]
Recent Projects Overview
DataWink
VIS'25
Reusing and adapting visualizations with VLM-powered pipeline that extracts dynamic templates from SVG-based references.
WaitGPT
UIST'24
Intuitively understand LLM-generated code with animated visualizations and scrollytelling. Interact with the interactive diagram to steer the data analysis process.
Recent Publications Full List
DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models
VIS 2025 (Just Accepted)