Hello! I am Liwenhan Xie (Shelly). I obtained my Ph.D. 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)
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Latest News  
I defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
I received 5 (out of 6) special recognition for outstanding reviews at CHI’26.
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 Ph.D. thesis proposal!
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 -Early Access

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