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I'm an assistant professor at Thrust of Computational Media and Arts (CMA), and jointly appointed at Thrust of Data Science and Analytics (DSA) in Information Hub, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and also affiliated with Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST. My research focuses on data visualization and visual analytics, VR/AR, and creative design. Before joining HKUST (GZ), I worked as an associate professor at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, adjunct associate professor at BNU-HKBU United International College , and a senior researcher at Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich. I received both the bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in computer sciences from the Nanyang Technological University.

I'm leading the Collaborative Interactive Visualization & Analysis Laboratory (CIVAL) @ HKUST (GZ). Find more information about CIVAL here.

I'm actively looking for PostDocs, PhDs, masters, and RAs. Drop an email with your resume and research plan if you are hardworking, creative, and well-motivated for high-quality research!
Prospective students: Please take a look at my research profile and interests, and write a concrete research plan accordingly. I will not respond to your email if the content is generic in any research area, for example, "I would like to do research in data visualization" or "in deep learning." I do have a wide spectrum of research interests, but that does not mean that I am dedicated to or capable of doing any research. It is fine if you know nothing about my research, in case that you are willing to and be able to do the research assigned to you!

Nov. '24: Our paper 'Centennial Drama Reimagined: An Immersive Experience of Intangible Cultural Heritage through Contextual Storytelling in Virtual Reality' got accepted to ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. Congrats to Jian Yu.
Sept. '24: Our paper 'AI-rays: Exploring Bias in the Gaze of AI Through a Multimodal Interactive Installation' got accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Papers. Congrats to Ziyao Gao.
Sept. '24: Invited to serve as an Associate Chair for the Design subcommittee in ACM CHI 2025.
Aug. '24: Invited to serve on the Editorial Board for The Visual Computer.
July '24: Two papers got accepted to IEEE VIS 2024.
- 'ModalChorus: Visual Probing and Alignment of Multi-modal Embeddings via Modal Fusion Map'. Congrats to Yilin Ye.
- 'Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models in Chart Question Answering with Visualization-Referenced Instruction Tuning'. Congrats to Xingchen Zeng.