Education

2016 Ph.D. Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Visual Analytics with Biclusters: Exploring Coordinated Relationships in Context
Advisor: Chris North
Committee: Naren Ramakrishnan, Kurt Luther, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Nathalie Henry Riche
2011 M.Ed. Educational Technology, Peking University, Beijing
2009 B.S. Computer Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing

Employment

2016 - Present University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science
Member, Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research
2013 - 2016 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Researcher
Summer 2014 & 2015 Informatica Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Research Intern
2011 - 2012 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2010 - 2011 Peking University, Beijing, China
Administration Assistant

Presentations

Professional Activities

Program Committee IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST): 2018 - 2019
IEEE Conference on Smart City Innovations: 2018
International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration: 2016
Reviewer IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST): 2014 - 2017
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis): 2016 - 2017
IEEE/EG VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis): 2017
IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis): 2016
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR): 2018
International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI): 2016
IEEE Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR): 2018
Graphics Interface (GI): 2016
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI): 2015 - 2016
ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW): 2015
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD): 2016
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS): 2016 - 2017
Information Sciences, Elsevier: 2015
Panel Interacting with Machine Learning, Human Centered Machine Learning at ACM CHI 2016
UMass Dartmouth Robotics Minor Committee, College of Engineering (09/2017 - Present)
Undergrad Curriculum Committee, Computer and Information Science (01/2017 - Present)
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Computer and Information Science (09/2016 - 02/2017)
Virginia Tech Member, The Center for Human Computer Interaction (2012 - 2016)
Member, The Discovery Analytics Center (2012 - 2016)

Teaching

Awards

2015 Grand Prize Award, the Caring for the Caregiver Hack, The Lindsay Institute
2008 & 2009 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China