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My Footprints

Student Work

I worked at the Art Center of the Student Union at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I mainly worked in photography, videography, and interviewing.

Some interesting courses I have taken or audited

French Philosophy Information Design Phenomenology A Spiritual Odyssey of the West Interactive Design Epistemology
Mapping What I Feel
Design Research

Mapping What I Feel

Design Research Mapping What I Feel — Affective Geovisualization Design

emotional maps · case research · design synthesis

Design research on how emotion and place are represented in map-based visualizations. We analyzed 62 affective geovisualization works to characterize design features and the ways people–place relationships are encoded. The work contributes a design space and implications for creating visualizations that reflect subjective, emotional experiences of place.

Paper · Slides · Website IEEE VIS 2025
City Pulse
Information Design

City Pulse

Information Design City Pulse — Global Metro Line Development

metro · abstract encoding · information design

City Pulse is an information design project that encodes global metro systems as abstract visuals: each city becomes a square, metro lines become flows. The representation reveals urban identity and how metro networks grow over time. It blends data-driven design with a consistent visual language.

Demo · Video · Paper · Gallery
EmoGeoCity
Interactive Information Design

EmoGeoCity

Interactive Information Design EmoGeoCity — City History & Culture Explorer

city history · interactive exploration · multi-view

EmoGeoCity is a digital humanities tool for exploring a city’s cultural and historical evolution through emotional geography. It combines place-based sentiment data with multidimensional visualizations so users can see how emotions and narratives attach to locations over time.

Paper PacificVis 2024
Global Mosaic
AI Product · Interactive Design

Global Mosaic

AI Product · Interactive Design Global Mosaic — Language, Culture & Environment

linguistic typology · multi-database · AI-assisted analysis

Recent advancements in typology have led to a shift toward large scale, quantitative analyses. Linguistic, cultural and environmental databases like Grambank, D-PLACE, and WALS offer rich and structured data, facilitating the exploration of complex relationships in interdisciplinary research. Key challenges include selecting meaningful and theoretically relevant features from vast and heterogeneous datasets; manual evaluation of thousands of variables is time consuming and prone to omissions or bias; and fully data driven feature discovery is computationally expensive and linguistically opaque. We are currently working on an AI enhanced, knowledge driven platform for multi database feature selection and validation. By embedding expert knowledge into an interactive AI supported visual environment, the platform guides and augments researchers' decision making rather than replacing it.

AI4Humanities 2025
Octopus Maps
Design Research

Octopus Maps

Design Research Octopus Maps — Visual Rhetoric in Persuasive Cartography

persuasive maps · visual rhetoric · design space

A design research project that examines how maps are used to persuade. We built a design space and conducted a visual rhetoric analysis of persuasive cartography—maps that argue, advocate, or shape opinion—and documented recurring visual and narrative strategies.

Paper · Website IEEE VIS 2025
Classic Chinese Novel
AI Product · Interaction

Classic Chinese Novel Extraction

AI Product · Interaction Classic Chinese Novel — Dialogue Character Extraction & Annotation

classic novel · character extraction · LLM + human annotation

The framework supports extracting, annotating, attributing and visualizing dialogue characters in classic Chinese novels, with interactive workflows that incorporate expert knowledge. Classic Chinese novels such as Dream of the Red Chamber feature complex characters and intricate relationships; manual extraction is labor-intensive and limited in scalability, while the richness of context and complexity of character references pose challenges for fully automated methods. Co-reference resolution—determining whether different names refer to the same character—is particularly difficult due to multiple aliases and context-dependent naming. The system is LLM-assisted: a backend handles segmentation, extraction, and database storage; a frontend supports interactive annotation and visualization. Co-reference resolution uses a combined LLM and visualization-assisted approach, integrating user expertise to refine character chains and improve attribution accuracy. The front-end provides an annotation interface with color-coded dialogue display and a dialogue network that visualizes characters as nodes and speaker-listener relationships as links; experts can correct name chains and regenerate the network. The approach bridges fully automated methods and human expertise, offering a scalable solution for dialogue character recognition in classic Chinese novels.

Slides DH2025
MBTIviz
Data Visualization

MBTIviz

Data Visualization MBTIviz — Personality & Demographics Explorer

personality · demographics · correlation analysis

An interactive visualization for exploring the distribution of MBTI personality types and their relationship to demographic variables. Users can compare type frequencies and examine correlations between personality and other survey dimensions. Published in a Springer LNCS volume.

Paper

Internship

OECD/SWAC · 2025–2026 · Data visualization & interaction design. Research-oriented data products for African urbanisation and policy.

Abstract Africa map Abstract Africa Rural-Urban Population Map
Food flow West Africa Food Trade
Agglomeration growth West Africa Agglomeration Growth
Rural-urban storytelling Africa Rural–Urban Storytelling
Urbanisation Africa Urbanisation