Hello, I am an Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. My research interests lie primarily in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Visualization. More specifically, my work focuses on mobile device interaction and visualization, multi-device interaction and visualization, narrative visualization for digital cultural heritage, and data physicalization.
News
- 2025.06: Our project title ARthroMap (画游姑苏), received the Third Prize in the 2025 “Huihu Youth Innovation” Suzhou Dushu Lake University Student Cultural and Creative Competition, along with an entrepreneurial seed fund of 50,000 RMB. I received the title Excellent Instructor.
- 2025.05: I received the Student-Voted Best Teacher Award for the academic year 2023-2024! Thanks to all for your wonderful support!
- 2024.07: Our paper titled MapCraft: Dissecting and Designing Custom Geo-Infographics received an honorable mention at ChinaVis 2024.
- 2024.06: Our project Totem Tales（图腾说), won the second prize in the Data Challenge Contest at ChinaVis 2024.
Publications
Enhancing Mobile Interaction: Practical Insights from Smartphone and Smartwatch Integration.
Qiuyao Cheng, Xuanyao Tian, Fengyuan Liao, Tan Chen, Xinyao Chen, Zixuan Wang, Yutong Dong, Yu Liu
Changyuanlang Teng, Zhiwei Shi, Lingyun Yu, Yu Liu
MapCraft: Dissecting and Designing Custom Geo-Infographics
Xinyuan Zhang, Yifan Xu, Kaiwen Li, Lingyun Yu, Yu Liu
A Comparative Study of Table-Sized Physicalization and Digital Visualization
Yanxin Wang, Yihan Liu, Lingyun Yu, Chengtao Ji, Yu Liu
- Exploring Embodied Asymmetric Two-Handed Interactions for Immersive Data Exploration, Haonan Yao, Lixiang Zhao, Hai-Ning Liang, Yu Liu, Yue Li and Lingyun Yu, ACM CHI 2024
- Enhancing Mobile Visualisation Interactivity: Insights on a Mixed-fidelity Prototyping Approach, Fabiola Polidoro, Yu Liu and Paul Craig, ACM CHI 2024
Teaching
- CPT001 Professional Skills in Computer Science
- CPT003 Introduction to Database
Student Competitions
- 2024.06 ChinaVis Data Challenge Contest, Second Prize.
- 2023.06 ChinaVis Data Challenge Contest, First Prize.
- 2022.06 ChinaVis Data Challenge Contest, Second Prize.
- 2021.06 ChinaVis Data Challenge Contest, Merit Prize (优秀奖).
Educations
- 2018.02 - 2022.06, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Liverpool (UoL).
- 2016.09 - 2017.12, MSc. Design for Informatics, University of Edinburgh (UoE).
- 2016.06 - 2012.09, BSc. Computer Science and Software Engineering. Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT).
Invited Talks
- 2023.04, 2023 China-Japan-South Korea Visualization Forum, Seoul, Korea.
Service
Reviewer of IEEE VIS, ACM MobileHCI, CSCW, IJHCI, ISS, IEEE VR, ISMAR, PacificVis, ChinaVis, VINCI etc.
Internships
- 2021.12 - 2022.06, Visualization Designer, Bytedance, Beijing, China.