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 visual data communication through human-centered techniques and systems.
News
- 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. Recording link (passcode 9DR=w2D*)
- 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
Data Illustrator
augmenting vector drawing tools with lazy data binding to author expressive visualizations
imMens
querying big data in real-time through data tile precomputation & parallel processing on GPU
DataTone
managing ambiguity in natural language interfaces for data visualization
MAQUI
interweaving querying & pattern mining for recursive exploration
CoreFlow
mining & visualizing branching patterns in event sequences
Patterns and Sequences
exploring clickstreams at multiple levels of granularity
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
Google Scholar | LinkedIn | Twitter
Travels
- June '23, EuroVis, Leipzig
- April '23, Boston
