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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Published nearly 100 papers across leading venues in NLP (ACL, EMNLP, COLM), visualization (IEEE VIS, EuroVis), and HCI (CHI, UIST), earning multiple Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, as well as the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence. Served as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review and on the IEEE VIS program committee, and co-organized several tutorials and panels at major international conferences, including IEEE VIS (2022–2025) and EMNLP 2023.
Research Experience
Currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Intelligent Visualization Lab at York University. Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, supervised by Giuseppe Carenini; Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University with Maneesh Agrawala.
Background
Associate Professor at York University and Director of the Intelligent Visualization Lab. Research interests include information visualization, natural language processing (NLP), and human–computer interaction (HCI) to democratize data science and analytics.
Miscellany
Contact Information: 3052 Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3. Will be presenting a tutorial at IEEE VIS titled: MLLM4Vis: Multimodal Large Language Models for Information Visualization.