I am a PhD student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Professor Yuyu Luo. My current research interest focuses on intelligent data visualization.
My research aims to make data visualization more intelligent and accessible, enabling both experts and non-experts to effectively explore and understand complex data through advanced visualization techniques.
🔥 News
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 Our paper “ChartMark” has been accepted by IEEE VIS 2025!
- 2024.06: 🎉🎉 Our paper “HAIChart” has been accepted by VLDB 2024!
📝 Publications

ChartMark: A Structured Grammar for Chart Annotation
Yiyu Chen, Yifan Wu, Shuyu Shen, Yupeng Xie, Leixian Shen, Hui Xiong, Yuyu Luo
IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS) Short Paper, 2025
- ChartMark is a high-level grammar for chart annotation with declarative JSON syntax.
- Provides automatic positioning and supports multiple annotation techniques.

HAIChart: Human and AI Paired Visualization System
Yupeng Xie, Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 17 (11), 3178–3191, 2024
- HAIChart is a novel human-AI paired visualization system that combines the strengths of human expertise and AI capabilities.
- The system enables interactive and collaborative data visualization creation between humans and AI.

Intelligent Data Visualization Analysis Techniques: A Survey
Yuyu Luo, Xuedi Qin, Yupeng Xie, Guoliang Li
Journal of Software, 2024, 35(1): 356-404
- A comprehensive survey on intelligent data visualization analysis techniques.
- Covers data preparation, visualization generation, and analysis recommendation methods.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- First Place, Greater Bay Area Seven Universities Joint Graduate Academic Poster Competition, 2025
- National Scholarship (Top 2%)
- China Telecom Scholarship · Fly Young Award (Top 1%)
- National Encouragement Scholarship (Top 30%)
- Second Prize at National Level, First Prize at Provincial Level in Lanqiao Cup National Programming Contest
- Second Prize in National College Students’ Mobile Internet Application Development Innovation Competition
- Second Prize at National Level, Grand Prize at Provincial Level in National E-Business Innovation Competition
📖 Educations
- 2025.03 - now, PhD in Data Science and Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
- 2021.09 - 2024.06, Master in Artificial Intelligence, Qinghai University, Xining, China.
💼 Experience
- 2023.09 - 2025.02, Visiting Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. Supervised by Assistant Professor Yuyu Luo.
- 2018.09 - 2020.05, Java Developer, Guangdong Xingfu Century Group, Guangzhou, China.
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