Published multiple academic papers, such as 'PiCCL: Data-Driven Composition of Bespoke Pictorial Charts' (VIS 2025), 'Data Formulator 2: Iterative Creation of Data Visualizations, with AI Transforming Data Along the Way' (CHI 2025), and more. Won best paper awards, such as 'DynaVis: Dynamically Synthesized UI Widgets for Visualization Editing' (CHI 2024).
Research Experience
Working at Microsoft Research, focusing on program synthesis, data analysis tools, etc.
Education
Ph.D. from the University of Washington, supervised by Ras Bodik and Alvin Cheung; B.S. from Peking University, supervised by Zhenjiang Hu and Yingfei Xiong.
Background
A principal researcher at Microsoft Research, designing new interactive agentic tools to help people better work with data.
Miscellany
Contributed to the open-source project Data Formulator.