Hello! I am Liwenhan Xie (Shelly), a PhD candidate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Huamin Qu.

With a background in information visualization and human-computer interaction, I study the design of interactive systems that prioritize human agency in creative tasks, focusing on its nuanced, exploratory, and unquantifiable aspect. My recent work explores co-creating expressive visualizations with foundation models.

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Job Hunting: Postdoc/Researcher (2026 Spring)
Let's chat about human-AI co-creation & animated visual storytelling!
Latest News  
Awarded the HKUST Redbird Scholarship.
DataWink was accepted to IEEE VIS. See you in Vienna!
Excited to intern at Adobe exploring controllable animation generation!
I passed my PhD thesis proposal!
WaitGPT was featured in the UIST teaser!
Designed swags for VisLab’s 20th anniversary. [Blog]
Liwenhan Xie

Projects   Overview

My Research    Publications   Projects

DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination

ArXiv 2025 ArXiv Preprint

DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models

VIS 2025 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics -Just Accepted

WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization

UIST 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Pittsburgh, USA

Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF

Liwenhan Xie*, Zhaoyu Zhou*, Kerun Yu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen
UIST 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in San Francisco, USA

Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression

TVCG 2023 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics