About me

Hi, welcome to my corner of the Internet!

I am a first-year CS Ph.D student at Brown University, advised by Prof. David Laidlaw in Brown Visual Computing Lab. Prior to that, I received my Master degree in Computational Arts from HKUST(GZ) and my Bachelor degree in communication Engineering from UESTC. I am committed to exploring visual representation ( data chartabout_chart, infographicsabout_infographics, logoabout_logo, etc) to explain complex ideas and empower humans with the tools for effective visual communication.

Research Interest

Revolving around "visual", my research interest lies in Vision, Visualization, and Visual design.

Research goal

With computer vision as design material and user intent as design consideration, I aim to support various stages of visualization/graphic design pipeline, including retrieval, generation, and application. Specifically, my research goals includes:

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    xploring novel designs to represent complex ideas.
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    nhancing user intent-aware workflow to facilitate the design process.
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    mpowering lay users and experts with authoring tools and grammar to achieve visual communication.

    • Upcoming Work

    Here are some logo designs from my upcoming work.

    Selected Publication

    Resume

    Education

    1. Brown University

      2024 — Present

      PhD student of Computer Science

    2. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

      2022 — 2024

      MPhil student of Computational Media and Arts

    3. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

      2018 — 2022

      Bachelor of Network Engineering

    Research Experience

    1. Microsoft Research Asia

      2024.5 — 2024.8 | Advised by Dr. Yuhui Yuan

      - Improved the capabilities of generating infographics and slides through region-wise control.

      2. Human-Computer Interaction Initiative @ HKUST

      2023.6 — 2023.10 | Advised by Prof. Xiaojuan Ma

      - Leverage diffusion model to generate a semantic typographic logo from an image.

      - Developed a tool to author semantic typographic logo design covering ideation, generation, and evaluation.

    2. Collaborative Interactive Visualization & Analysis Laboratory @ HKUST (GZ)

      2022.6 — Present | Advised by Prof. Wei Zeng

      - Developed a visual analytics tool to explore bus operation uncertainties for transit scheduling, and investigated the semantic space for probing and aligning multi-modal embeddings.

      - Created an authoring tool that integrates generation and evaluation processes to produce accurate pictorial visualizations.

      - Proposed a retrieval framework featuring multi-modality embedding disentanglement to enhance intent-aware visualization retrieval and visual design retrieval.

    3. University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China

      2020.6 — 2021.11 | Advised by Prof. Liangjian Deng

      Proposed a progressive neural network to improve super-resolution for remote sensing images.

    My skills

    • Python
      80%
    • DL/ML
      75%
    • Vue
      70%
    • Design(PS/PR/AI)
      60%