Scholar
Nan Cao
Google Scholar ID: 5I0mFcsAAAAJ
Professor, Intelligent Big Data Visualization Lab @ Tongji University
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,396
H-index
44
i10-index
108
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 150 research papers, including more than 70 CCF-A category papers
- Received 3 Best Paper Awards and 7 Best Paper Honorable Mentions
- Best Paper Award at IEEE VIS 2023
- Multiple Best Paper/Poster Honorable Mentions at IEEE VIS and IEEE PacificVis
- Named among Forbes China’s “Top 20 Intelligent Industrial Designers” in 2022
- Listed in Stanford/Elsevier’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” from 2022 to 2025
- Received AI Open Index’s “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Visualization” (2020–2024)
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from IBM (2015)
- Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VAST (2014)
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) (2005)
- Led 5 national-level projects, including National Key R&D Program and NSFC grants
- His team was awarded “Tongji University’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Team” in 2024
- Serves on editorial boards and as committee chair for major venues, e.g., Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Associate Chair of ACM CHI 2024
Background
- Vice Dean of Tongji College of Design and Innovation, and Tenured Professor at Tongji University
- Jointly appointed Professor at Tongji School of Software Engineering and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Intelligent Systems
- Full-time Doctoral Supervisor at Shanghai Institute for Innovation and Intelligence
- National-level Young Talent
- Research focuses on the intersection of AI and design, including intelligent information design/data visualization, industrial design/CAD & CG, and interaction design/HCI
