Scholar
Jian Zhao
Google Scholar ID: 5v0elikAAAAJ
University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,654
H-index
32
i10-index
68
Publications
20
Co-authors
170
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NBDESCRIB (ACL Findings'25): A dataset for text description generation from tables and code
- VATRA (GI'25): Explaining adversarial machine learning with interactive visualization
- Code Shaping (CHI'25): Editing code using free-form sketch
- Brickify (CHI'25): Designing graphics via directly manipulatable tokens
- Influencer (CHI'25): Fusing images and text for promotional posts
- WavData Lamp (CHI'25): Studying user relations with data-physicalized thing
- AdvEx (TIIS'25): Explaining adversarial machine learning with interactive visualization
- Piet (CHI'24): Fluid color manipulation for motion graphics videos
- Streaming in VR (ISS'23): Investigating practices, challenges, and opportunities of VR streaming on Twitch
- Hand-over-face gestures (MobileHCI'19): Interacting with your smartphone through the built-in camera
- KTGraph (VAST'17): Studying handoff of partial findings in asynchronous collaborative sensemaking
- EgoLines (CHI'16): Visual exploration of dynamic egocentric networks
- MatrixWave (CHI'15): Visual comparison of event sequence data, such as user clickstreams on websites
- FluxFlow (VAST'14): Visual analysis of anomalous information spreading in social media
Background
- Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- Director of the WVisdom (formerly WatVis) research lab
- Affiliated with the WaterlooHCI lab
- Member of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute (Waterloo.ai), Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics (WISA), and the Games Institute
- Research focuses on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Data Science, and Human-Centered AI
- Develops novel interactive systems and visual representations that promote interplay among humans, machines, and data
- Aims to enhance human-data interaction through exploratory and explanatory interfaces that integrate user creativity with algorithmic scalability
