I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. I direct the Human-Data Interaction Research Group, whose mission is to support interactive data analysis and data-driven visual communication through human-centered techniques and systems.
If you are an undergraudate or Master's student at UMD looking for research opportunities with me, please read this page first.
News
- Nov. '23: Joining the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) as an Associate Editor.
- Jul. '23: Paper on deconstructing SVG charts for layout reuse accepted at VIS 2023.
- Jul. '23: Received an NSF CAREER Award.
- Jun. '23: Two short papers on authoring responsive documents with Layout Generation and guided data analysis in computational notebooks accepted at VL/HCC 2023.
- May '23: Two papers on the state of the art in visualization corpora for automated chart analysis and comparative evaluation of visual summarization techniques for event sequences accepted at EuroVis 2023.
- Aug. '22: Giving a keynote talk on "Towards Scalable and Interpretable Visual Analytics" at the Visualization in Data Science workshop at ACM KDD.
- Jul. '22: Paper on how visualization designers find and use examples accepted at VIS 2022.
- Aug. '21: Short paper on the Atlas visualization grammar will appear at VIS 2021.
- Feb. '21: Two papers accepted for publication at CHI 2021: Data Animator and VizFlow.
- Aug. '20: Started as an assistant professor in the CS department at University of Maryland.
- Mar. '20: EuroVis paper on authoring paradigms for animated data graphics.
- Mar. '20: A Best Paper Award for our CHI 2020 paper on responsive visualization design.
- Feb. '20: Two papers on responsive visualization design and log data segmentation accepted at CHI 2020.
Featured Projects
Manipulable Semantic Components
Scene-centric data visualization grammar designed to support the generation, transformation, and analysis of expressive charts
Visual Analytics of Event Sequences
Frameworks, techniques, and systems to support interactive visual analysis of event sequence data in different domains
Contact
- Department of Computer Science
- Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
- University of Maryland
- 8125 Paint Branch Drive
- College Park, MD 20742
Email: leozcliu at umd.edu
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Travels and Talks
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Oct. '23: Stanford University
HCI Seminar -
Sep. '23: Virginia Tech
Falls Church, VA - Aug. '23: HFES Webinar
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Jun. '23: EuroVis
Leipzig, Germany -
Apr. '23: MIT
Cambridge, MA
