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.

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Job Seeking: Postdoc/RS starting Fall 2025/Spring 2026
I'm broadly interested in human-AI co-creation and animated visual storytelling. Open to chat!
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🎉 Honored to receive the HKUST Redbird Scholarship.
😉 DataWink was accepted to IEEE VIS!
🤸‍♀️ Excited to intern at Adobe exploring agent-based motion synthesis!
🙋 I passed my PhD thesis proposal!
🥹 WaitGPT was featured in UIST teaser! Will talk more in Pittsburgh.
😎 Designed swags for VisLab’s 20th anniversary. [Inspiration] [Me]
Liwenhan Xie

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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