Shixia Liu (刘世霞)
I am a professor in the School of Software, Tsinghua University. I received a B.S. and M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University. Before I joined Tsinghua, I worked as a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a research staff member and research manager at IBM China Research Lab. I was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021.
Email: shixia@tsinghua.edu.cn; liushixia@gmail.com
Research
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My research tightly integrates interactive visualization with machine learning or data mining techniques to help users consume huge amounts of information.
- Explainable artificial intelligence
Visual analytics techniques for machine learnig, Including 1) understand, diagnose, and refine a machine learning model; 2) improve data quality and feature quality. - Visual text analytics
Combine the advantages of text mining and interactive visualization to facilitate visual analytics of large-scale textual data. - Text mining
Develop statistical text mining methods to understand complex text data, including evolutionary text clustering, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.
Students
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Current PhD
- Changjian Chen, 2017~
- Jun Yuan, 2019~
- Weikai Yang, 2019~
- Zhaowei Wang, 2020~
- Zhen Li (co-advised w/Hui Zhang), 2021~
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Completed PhD
- Mengchen Liu , 2013~2018, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Remond
- Xiting Wang, 2011~2016, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Honors and Awards
- 2021, IEEE Fellow
- 2020, IEEE Visualization Academy
- 2020, Best Mentor Award of Tsinghua University
- 2019, Excellent Class Teacher of Tsinghua university
- 2016, Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE TVCG
- 2012, Microsoft Ship-It Award
- 2011, Microsoft Ship-It Award
- 2010, IBM Research accomplishment
- 2006, IBM Master Inventor
Professional Activities
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Steering Committee
- IEEE VIS, 2020~
- VINCI, 2012~2013
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Associate Editor-in-Chief
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General Chair
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Papers Co-chair
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Associate Editor
- Artificial Intelligence, 2021~
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2015~2018
- IEEE Transactions on Big data, 2018~
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems , 2019~
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Editorial Board
- Information Visualization, 2015~
- Journal of Visualization, 2018~
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Program Co-chair
- Organizing Committee (Tutorials Chair): IEEE VIS 2015
- PacificVis 2015
- Organizing Committee (Meetup Chair): IEEE VIS 2014
- Workshop Co-Chair: IEEE VIS 2013 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics
- Poster Co-chair: PacificVis 2013
- Workshop Co-chair: IEEE VisWeek 2012 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics
- Program Co-chair: Visual Information Communication - International Symposium 2012
- Workshop Co-chair: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
- Workshop Co-chair: Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, 2010
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Guest Editor
- Tsinghua Science and Technology: Special issue on visualization and computer graphics, 2012
- ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology: Special Issue on Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, 2012
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Program Committee
- CHI 2018
- InfoVis 2020, 2015, 2014
- VAST 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014
- KDD 2015, 2014, 2013
- PAKDD 2013
- PacificVis 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
- ACM IUI 2011, 2009
- VISAPP 2012, 2011
- VINCI 2011
- ACM Multimedia 2009
- SDM 2008
Talks
- Big Data Foundations and Applications, 2014, Tsinghua course, Information Visualization: Connecting the Abstract and Visual Worlds.
- PacificVis 2012, Tutorial, Interactive Visual Text Analytics and its Evaluation.
- VINCI 2011, Keynote, Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making.
Publications
2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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StreamExplorer: A Multi-Stage System for Visually Exploring Events in Social StreamsYingcai Wu, Zhutian Chen, Guodao Sun, Xiao Xie, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weiwei Cui.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (accepted).
24(10):
2758-2772,
2018.
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Scalable Training of Hierarchical Topic ModelsJianfei Chen, Jun Zhu, Jie Lu, Shixia Liu.
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB).
2018.
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Visual Analytics for Explainable Deep LearningJaegul Choo, Shixia Liu.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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Steering Data Quality with Visual Analytics: The Complexity ChallengeShixia Liu, Gennady Andrienko, Yingcai Wu, Nan Cao, Liu Jiang, Conglei Shi, Yu-Shuen Wang, Seokhee Hong.
Visual Informatics.
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Recent Research Advances on Interactive Machine LearningLiu Jiang, Shixia Liu, Changjian Chen.
Journal of Visualization.
1-17,
2018.
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2017
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Improving Learning-from-Crowds through Expert ValidationMengchen Liu, Liu Jiang, Junlin Liu, Xiting Wang, Jun Zhu and Shixia Liu.
IJCAI 2017.
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Towards Better Analysis of Machine Learning Models: A Visual Analytics PerspectiveShixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Mengchen Liu, Jun Zhu.
Visual Informatics.
1(1):
48-56,
2017.
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2016
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Online Visual Analytics of Text StreamsShixia Liu, Jialun Yin, Xiting Wang, Weiwei Cui, Kelei Cao, Jian Pei.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
22(11):
2451-2466,
2016.
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Adaptive Multi-Compositionality for Recursive Neural Network ModelsLi Dong, Furu Wei, Ke Xu, Shixia Liu, Ming Zhou.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (accepted).
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Topic- and Time-Oriented Visual Text AnalysisWenwen Dou, Shixia Liu.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
36(4):
8-13.
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2015
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Evolutionary Bayesian Rose TreesShixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Yangqiu Song, Baining Guo.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
27(6):
1533-1546.
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Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Keywords via Scalable Bayesian Rose TreesY. Song, S. Liu*, X. Liu, H. Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted).
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Clutter-Aware Label LayoutYu Meng, Hui Zhang, Mengchen Liu, Shixia Liu.
IEEE PacificVis, 207-214, 2015
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2014
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Follower-followee Network, Communication Networks and Vote Agreement of U.S. Members of CongressTai-Quan Peng, Mengchen Liu, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu.
Communication Research(accepted).
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TopicPanorama: a Full Picture of Relevant TopicsShixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Jianfei Chen, Jun Zhu, Baining Guo.
Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2014
Develop a full picture of relevant topics discussed in multiple text sources. |
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A Survey on Information Visualization: Recent Advances and ChallengesShixia Liu, Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Mengchen Liu.
The Visual Computer,
30
(12):
1373–1393,
2014.
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2013
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Visual Analysis of Topic Competition on Social MediaPanpan Xu, Yingcai Wu, Enxun Wei, Tai-Quan Peng, Shixia Liu, Jonathan J. H. Zhu, and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
19
(12):
2012-2021
(IEEE VAST 2013)
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StoryFlow: Tracking the Evolution of StoriesShixia Liu, Yingcai Wu, Enxun Wei, Mengchen Liu, Yang Liu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
19
(12):
2436-2445
(IEEE InfoVis 2013)
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Mining Evolutionary Multi-Branch Trees from Text StreamsXiting Wang, Shixia Liu, Yangqiu Song, Baining Guo.
KDD,
722-730,
2013.
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A Survey of Visual Analytics Techniques and Applications: State-of-the-Art Research and Future ChallengesGuodao Sun, Yingcai Wu Ronghua Liang, and Shixia Liu.
Journal of Computer Science and Technology,
28
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852-867,
2013.
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A Hierarchical Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online ReviewsSuin Kim, Jianwen Zhang, Zheng Chen, Alice Oh, Shixia Liu.
AAAI,
2013.
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Optimizing temporal topic segmentation for intelligent text visualizationShimei Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, Yangqiu Song, Weihong Qian, Fei Wang, Shixia Liu.
IUI,
339-350,
2013.
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ViSizer - A Visualization Resizing FrameworkYingcai Wu, Xiaotong Liu, Shixia Liu*, Kwan-Liu Ma.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
19
(2):
278-290,
2013.
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PIWI: Visually Exploring Graphs Based on Their Community StructureJing Yang, Yujie Liu, Xin Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan, Ye Zhao, Scott Barlowe, Shixia Liu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
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(6):
1034-1047,
2013.
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Lead-Lag Analysis via Sparse Co-Projection in Correlated Text StreamsF. Wu, Y. Song, S. Liu, Y. Huang, Z. Liu.
CIKM,
2069-2078,
2013.
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2012
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Automatic Taxonomy Construction from KeywordsXueqing Liu, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu, Haixun Wang.
KDD,
1433-1441,
2012.
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Breaking News on TwitterMengdie Hu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Yingcai Wu, John Stasko, Kwan-Liu Ma.
CHI,
2751-2754,
2012.
Some of the public reports on this work:
MSNBC;
Washington Times;
ReadWriteWeb;
LA Times;
Poynter;
GT news.
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TIARA: Interactive, Topic-based Visual Text Summarization and AnalysisShixia Liu, Michelle X. Zhou, Shimei Pan, Yangqiu Song, Weihong Qian, Weijia Cai, Xiaoxiao Lian.
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
3
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25
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Real-time Visualization of Streaming Text with Force-Based Dynamic SystemJamal Alsakran, Yang Chen, Dongning Luo, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Wenwen Dou, Shixia Liu.
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.
32
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34-45
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2011
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Semantic-Preserving Word Clouds by Seam CarvingYingcai Wu and Thomas Provan and Furu Wei and Shixia Liu and Kwan-Liu Ma.
Computer Graphics Forum.
30
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741--750
(EuroVis 2011)
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2010
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OpinionSeer: Interactive Visualization of Hotel Customer FeedbackYingcai Wu, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Norman Au, Weiwei Cui, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
16
(6):
1109--1118
(IEEE InfoVis 2010)
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FacetAtlas: Multifacet Visualization for Rich Text CorporaNan Cao, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz, Shixia Liu and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
16
(6):
1172-1181
(IEEE InfoVis 2010)
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TIARA: A Visual Exploratory Text Analytic SystemFuru Wei, Shixia Liu, Yangqiu Song, Shimie Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, Weihong Qian, Lei Shi, Li Tan, Qiang Zhang.
KDD,
153-162 ,
2010.
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Evolutionary Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for Multiple Correlated Time-varying CorporaJianwen Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Changshui Zhang, Shixia Liu.
KDD,
1079-1088 ,
2010.
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ContexTour: Contextual Contour Analysis on Dynamic Multi-relational ClusteringYu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu.
SDM,
418-429,
2010.
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Context preserving dynamic word cloud visualizationWeiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, Huamin Qu.
PacificVis,
121-128,
2010.
Journal version: IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications,
30(6):
42 - 53,
2010.
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Understanding Text Corpora with Multiple FacetsLei Shi, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Li Tan, Xiaoxiao Lian and Michelle Zhou.
VAST,
99-106,
2010.
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iRANK: A Rank-Learn-Combine Framework for Unsupervised Ensemble RankingFuru Wei, Wenjie Li, Shixia Liu.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
61(6):
1232–1243
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2009
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HiMap: Adaptive visualization of large-scale online social networksLei Shi, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian, Li Tan, Guodong Wang, Jimeng Sun, Ching-Yung Lin.
PacificVis,
41-48,
2009
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MultiVis: Content-Based Social Network Exploration through Multi-way Visual AnalysisJimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian.
SDM,
1063-1074,
2009
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2008-2000
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FanLens: A Visual Toolkit for Dynamically Exploring the Distribution of Hierarchical AttributesXinghua Lou, Shixia Liu, Tianshu Wang.
PacificVis,
151-158,
2008
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Interactive Visual Analysis of the NSF Funding InformationShixia Liu, Nan Cao, Hao Lv.
PacificVis,
183-190,
2008
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Mining Naturally Smooth Evolution of Clusters from Dynamic DataYi Wang, Shi-Xia Liu, Jianhua Feng, Lizhu Zhou.
SDM,
125-134,
2007.
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An Integrated System for Building Enterprise TaxonomiesLi Zhang, Tao Li, Shixia Liu, Yue Pan.
Information Retrieval.
10(4-5):
365-391,
2007
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Reconstruction of curved solids from engineering drawingsShi-Xia Liu, Shi-Min Hu, Yu-Jian Chen, Jia-Guang Sun.
Computer-Aided Design
33
(14):
1059-1072
2001
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A Matrix-Based Approach to Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Three Orthographic ViewsShi-Xia Liu, Shi-Min Hu, Jia-Guang Sun, Chiew-Lan Tai.
Pacific Graphics ,
254-261 ,
2000
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PhD Theses
- Xiting Wang, Topic Mining and Visual Topic Analysis of Rich Text Corpora, PhD thesis, 2017.
- Mengchen Liu, Visual Analytics of Machine Learning Models, PhD thesis, 2018.