Experiences

Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, 2016.10-

Postdoctoral Researcher, Autodesk Research, Toronto, ON, 2015.7-2016.10

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2009.9-2015.7

Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2014.12-2015.3

Research Intern, Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA, 2014.6-2014.9

Research Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, 2013.6-2013.9

Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2011.6-2011.9

Visiting Student, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2008.6-2008.8

Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship, $90,000, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2016-2017 (declined)
Accelerate Postdoctoral Award, $60,000, Mitacs, 2016
Robert E. Lansdale/Okino Computer Graphics Graduate Fellowship, $2,000, University of Toronto, 2015
Wolfond Fellowship, $10,000, University of Toronto, 2012
Wolfond Scholarship, $5,000/year, University of Toronto, 2010, 2011
Art & Science Graduate Fellowship, ~$30,000/year, University of Toronto, 2009-2014
Chinese National Scholarship, ¥8,000/year, Ministry of Education of China, 2006, 2008
Academic Scholarship, ¥5,000/year, Zhejiang University, 2006-2008

Design for Interactive Visualization: Illustrated with Graph Visualization, UC Davis, 2017.2

CSC108 Introduction to Computer Programming, University of Toronto, 2009-2011, 2015
CSC148 Introduction to Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2010
CSC318 Design of Interactive Computational Media, University of Toronto, 2011-2013
CSC309 Programming on the Web, University of Toronto, 2012
CSC428/2514 Human-Computer Interaction, University of Toronto, 2014

Siwei Fu, Research Intern, FXPAL, 2017.6-2017.9
Phoebe Chang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Toronto, 2013.5-2013.8 (co-advised with Dr. Ravin Balakrishnan)

Siwei Fu, Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, 2015.11-2016.3 (co-advised with Dr. Weiwei Cui)
Yanhong Wu, Ph.D. student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015.1-2015.5 (co-advised with Dr. Huamin Qu)
Fan Du, Research Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 2014.5-2014.9 (co-advised with Dr. Nan Cao)

Visualization and Design: What I Did and What I Learned, Mnubo Inc., Montreal, QC, 2015.11
Supporting Data Analytics with Interactive Visualization, CaseWare International Inc., Toronto, ON, 2015.6
Bridging Data and User with Interactive Visualization, Peking University, Bejing, China, 2015.5
Bridging Data and User with Interactive Visualization, Autodesk Research, Toronto, ON, 2014.11
Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data, Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA, 2014.9
Visual Data Exploration: A Multi-Focus Approach, UOIT, Oshawa, ON, 2013.12
Visual Analytics of Online Social Media, IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, CA, 2013.9
TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking, ToRCHI seminar, Toronto, ON, 2013.4
TimeSlice: Interactive Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2011.8
Modeling Scrolling Interactions on Touch Screens, Jilin University, China, 2010.12
KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data, KMDI seminar, University of Toronto, 2010.9

Annotation Graphs: A Graph-Based Visualization for Meta-Analysis of Data based on User-Authored Annotations. IEEE VIS, Baltimore, MA, 2016.11.
Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLines, ACM CHI, San Jose, CA, 2016.5
Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data, ACM CHI, Seoul, South Korea, 2015.4
#FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media, IEEE VIS, Paris, France, 2014.11
PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media, IEEE VIS, Paris, France, 2014.11
TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking, ACM CHI, Paris, France, 2013.5
Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization, IEEE VisWeek, Seattle, WA, 2012.10
Exploratory Analysis of Time-series with ChronoLenses, IEEE VisWeek, Providence, RI, 2011.10
KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data, ACM CHI, Vancouver, BC, 2011.5
A Model of Multi-touch Manipulation, GRAND, Vancouver, BC, 2011.5

IEEE VIS (VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis) Conference
IEEE Pacific Visualization (PacificVis) Symposium
IEEE Eurographics/VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI)
ACM Graphics Interface Conference (GI)
ACM Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI)
ACM Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI)
ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW)