Scholar
Xinyu Shi
Google Scholar ID: tdbR5K4AAAAJ
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
302
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
9
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Brickify: Enabling Expressive Design Intent Specification through Direct Manipulation on Design Tokens' accepted by CHI'25; Paper 'Piet: Facilitating Color Authoring for Motion Graphics Video' won Best Paper Award at CHI 2024; Paper 'Exploring Interactive Color Palettes for Abstraction-Driven Exploratory Image Colorization' accepted by CHI 2024; Paper 'De-Stijl: Facilitating Graphics Design with Interactive 2D Color Palette Recommendation' accepted by CHI 2023; Paper 'Real-World Blind Super-Resolution via Feature Matching with Implicit High-Resolution Priors' accepted by MM 2022 and selected as Oral Presentation.
Research Experience
- Interned at Adobe Research in Summer 2025; Interned at Adobe Research (San Jose) in May 2024; Interned at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) in May 2023; Attended CHI 2023 to present De-Stijl in Hamburg, Germany in April 2023.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2021 - Present, University of Waterloo, Canada, Advisor: Prof. Jian Zhao; B.Eng. in Software Engineering, 2016 - 2020, Xiamen University, China.
Background
- Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design Intelligence, and AI-Powered Creativity Support Tools. The goal is to design, develop, and evaluate interactive systems to facilitate graphic design authoring and enhance human creativity.
Miscellany
- Hobbies include skiing, playing badminton, rock climbing (only belay, no bouldering), and traveling. Has two cats.
