Scholar
Yifang Wang
Google Scholar ID: 3qWVVUwAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
334
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
55
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications in top-tier venues including Nature, IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG, ACM CHI, SIGGRAPH Art, and ISEA
- Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE VIS 2023
- Invited talks at leading computational social science conferences such as IC2S2 and ICSSI
- Research covered by multiple media outlets
- Artworks exhibited internationally in the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Korea, and Hong Kong
- Key projects: SciSciGPT (Nature Computational Science 2025), InnovationInsights (IEEE VIS 2023), FundingTheFrontier (arXiv 2025)
Background
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University
- Research at the intersection of Data Visualization (VIS), Human-AI Collaboration (HAI), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Central research question: how to advance scientific understanding and support decision-making on critical questions of human behavior and societal dynamics
- Develops novel VIS and HAI techniques for both general data-driven tasks and domain-specific applications such as the science of science, science policy, and public health
- Explores data-driven art to invite reflection, provoke emotion, and encourage public discussion on technology and social issues
- Interdisciplinary researcher contributing to visualization, HCI, and computational social science
