Liwenhan Xie 谢( xiè )李( lǐ )文( wén )含( hán )

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PhD Candidate

Address: Big Data Institute. Lo Ka Chung University Center. HKUST. Clear Water Bay. Kowloon. Hong Kong.

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Education

2020 -

PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong SAR

CSE department; Advised by Prof. Huamin Qu
Member of the VisLab

2016 - 2020

BSc. in Data Science and Big Data Technology, Peking University

Beijing, China

Yuanpei College; Advised by Prof. Xiaoru Yuan
Research assistant of the PKUVIS Group

2019 Fa

Exchange Student, École Polytechnique

Palaiseau, France

Cycle Ingénieur program, Data Science track

Experience

2025 Sum

Incoming Research Intern at the Creative Intelligence Lab Adobe Research

Seattle, USA

Supervisor: Dr. Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Dr. Li-Yi Wei

2023 Sum

Visiting Student at the Visual Computing Group, Harvard University

Cambridge, USA

Supervisor: Prof. Hanspeter Pfister, Dr. Zhutian Chen

2020 - 2021

Visiting Student at the FDU-VIS, Fudan University

Shanghai, China

Supervisor: Prof. Siming Chen

2017 - 2020

Undergraduate Research Assistant at the PKUVIS Group, Peking university

Beijing, China

Supervisor: Prof. Xiaoru Yuan

2019 Fa

Research Intern at the Aviz group, INRIA

Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Supervisor: Prof. Jean-Daniel Fekete

2019 Sum

Research Intern at the VisHub, University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, UK

Supervisor: Prof. Benjamin Bach

2018 Sum

Research Intern at the HKUST Vislab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong SAR

Supervisor: Prof. Huamin Qu

Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Journal

J-2

Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression.

Liwenhan Xie, Xinhuan Shu, Jeon Cheol Su, Yun Wang, Siming Chen, Huamin Qu. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 30(8):5198—5211. 2023.

J-1

OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations.

Yu Zhang, Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie, Yuheng Zhao, Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS), 30(1):551—561. 2023.

Conference

C-6

“You'll Be Alice Adventuring in Wonderland!” Processes, Challenges, and Opportunities of Creating Animated Virtual Reality Stories.

Lin-Ping Yuan, Feilin Han, Liwenhan Xie, Junjie Zhang, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025.

C-5

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

Liwenhan Xie, Chengbo Zheng, Haijun Xia, Huamin Qu, Chen Zhu-Tian. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Article 119, 14 pages. 2024.

C-4

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

Liwenhan Xie*, Zhaoyu Zhou*, Kerun Yu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Article 98, 14 pages. 2023.

C-3

GeoCamera: Telling Stories in Geographic Visualizations with Camera Movements.

Wenchao Li, Zhan Wang, Yun Wang, Di Weng, Liwenhan Xie, Siming Chen, Haidong Zhang, Huamin Qu. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Article 170, 15 pages. 2023.

C-2

Learning to Automate Chart Layout Configurations Using Crowdsourced Paired Comparison.

Aoyu Wu, Liwenhan Xie, Bongshin Lee, Yun Wang, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Article 14, 13 pages. 2021.

C-1

Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks.

Liwenhan Xie, James O'Donnell, Benjamin Bach, Jean-Daniel Fekete. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), Article 26, 9 pages. 2020.

Short Paper

S-2

FoodWise: Food Waste Reduction and Behavior Change on Campus with Data Visualization and Gamification.

Yue Yu, Sophia Yi, Xi Nan, Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Kento Shigyo, Liwenhan Xie, Jeffry Wicaksana, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Huamin Qu. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 76—83. 2023. Short Paper.

S-1

AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically.

Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Datong Wei, Xiaoru Yuan. In Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 191—195. 2020. Short Paper.

Poster

P-5

Let Every Seat Be Perfect! A Case Study on Combining BIM and VR for Room Planning.

Wai Tong*, Haotian Li*, Huan Wei*, Liwenhan Xie*, Yanna Lin*, Huamin Qu. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 776—777. 2022.

P-4

EarthquakeAware: Visual Analytics for Understanding Human Impacts of Earthquakes from Social Media Data.

Shuai Chen, Sihang Li, Liwenhan Xie, Yi Zhong, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan. In Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST Challenge), 122—123. 2019.

P-3

Automatic Caption Generation for SVG Charts.

Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan. In Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2019.

P-2

Visualizing Dynamic Networks of Long Sequences with Pixel Matrix Array.

CNY 30,000 for visit to the University of Edinburgh

Awards

2020

AVI: Honorable Mention Award

for Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks

2019

VAST Challenge: Honorable Mention for Support for Analysis through Annotation and Context Award

for EarthquakeAware: Visual Analytics for Understanding Human Impacts of Earthquakes from Social Media Data

2019

PacificVis: Honorable Mention Award

for Automatic Caption Generation for SVG Charts

2018

VAST Challenge: Insights Generated Through the Use of a Custom Tool Award

for Visual Analysis for Subgroups in a Dynamic Network

Invited Talks

Creativity Support in Visualization Authoring: Case Studies in Animation

School of Experimental and Sci-Tech Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Dec 2024

Wait, GPT! How Can We Support Human-AI Communication in Personalized Visualization Tasks?

Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing Dec 2024

Creativity Support in Visualization Authoring

HKUST MSBD 5005, Hong Kong Mar 2024

Affective Text Animation Generation

China R Conference, Online Oct 2023

Service

Academia

Program Committee

IUI (2023-25), CHI LBW (2024-25)

Reviewer

Journal	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Visual Informatics
Conference	UIST (2023-25), CHI (2023-25), VIS (2021-25), CSCW (2024-25), IUI (2022), DIS (2024-25), EuroVis (2023-24), PacificVis (2021-22, 2024-25), ChinaVis (2021, 2023-24)
Workshop	CVPR CVEU Workshop (2025)

*Special recognition for outstanding review: CHI'25 (×2), CSCW'25, CVEU'25, CHI'24, IUI'24, DIS'24

Session Chair

CHI'25—Digital Storytelling, CHI'23—Visualization Grammars and Design

Volunteer

HKUST AI Film Festival'25, CHI'23, VIS'22, VIS'21

Community

Seminar Coordinator for the HKUST VisLab (2024-25).
Teaching Assistance Coordinator (postgraduate student representative) for the HKUST CSE Department (2022-23)

Teaching Experience

2024 Sp

COMP2211: Exploring Artificial Intelligence

HKUST

Teaching Assistant for Dr. Desmond Yau-chat Tsoi

2021 Fa

COMP3111: Software Engineering

HKUST

Teaching Assistant for Dr. Wai Ting Leung

2021 Sp

DATA130012.01: Data Visualization

FDU

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Siming Chen

2021 Sp

COMP4321: Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data

HKUST

Teaching Assistance for Prof. Dik Lun Lee