Yuan Tian

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, and a member of the Interactive Data Group (ZJUIDG), supervised by Prof. Dazhen Deng and Prof. Yingcai Wu. My research focuses on AI-assisted visual analytics, with a particular interest in using large language models (LLMs) to support data understanding and visualization generation.

Currently, I am a visiting scholar at CMU, working with Prof. Sherry Wu in the WINE Lab.

I expect to graduate in 2027 and am actively seeking job opportunities. Please feel free to reach out!

2026-07Our paper "ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts from Abstract Natural Language" received the TVCG 2025 Best Paper Award!
2026-071 paper accepted to IEEE VIS 2026.
2026-061 paper accepted to ACM UIST 2026.
2026-04I'm thrilled to start my visit at CMU, working with Prof. Sherry Wu!
2026-012 papers, NoteFlow and ExChart, were accepted to ACM CHI 2026.

NoteFlow: Leveraging Charts as Sight Glasses for Consistent and Continuous Data Flow Tracing
Yuan Tian, Dazhen Deng, Sen Yang, Huawei Zheng, Bowen Shi, Kai Xiong, Xinjing Yi, and Yingcai Wu
CHI 2026
DOI arXiv
Making Multimodal LLMs Reliable Chart Data Extractors: A Benchmark and Training Framework
Yuchen He, Peizhi Ying, Liqi Cheng, Kuilin Peng, Yuan Tian, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu
CHI 2026
DOI Website

ReSpark: Leveraging Previous Data Reports as References to Generate New Reports with LLMs
Yuan Tian, Chuhan Zhang, Xiaotong Wang, Sitong Pan, Weiwei Cui, Haidong Zhang, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu
UIST 2025
PDF DOI GitHub ArXiv

ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts From Abstract Natural Language
Yuan Tian, Weiwei Cui, Dazhen Deng, Xinjing Yi, Yurun Yang, Haidong Zhang, and Yingcai Wu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
PDF DOI ArXiv HuggingFace
Relation-driven Query of Multiple Time Series
Shuhan Liu, Yuan Tian, Zikun Deng, Weiwei Cui, Haidong Zhang, Di Weng, and Yingcai Wu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
PDF DOI

A Survey of Urban Visual Analytics: Advances and Future Directions
Zikun Deng, Di Weng, Shuhan Liu, Yuan Tian, Mingliang Xu, and Yingcai Wu
Computational Visual Media
PDF DOI

ECoalVis: Visual Analysis of Control Strategies in Coal-fired Power Plants
Shuhan Liu, Di Weng, Yuan Tian, Zikun Deng, Haoran Xu, Xiangyu Zhu, Honglei Yin, Xianyuan Zhan, and Yingcai Wu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2022)
PDF DOI

CycleChart: A Unified Consistency-Based Learning Framework for Bidirectional Chart Understanding and Generation
Dazhen Deng, Sen Yang, Yuchen He, Yuan Tian, Yingcai Wu
arXiv preprint
arXiv

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Technology
State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University
2022.9 - Present
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
2022.12 - 2023.12
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University
2018.9 - 2022.6

Summer 2024-2025, TA in the International Visualization Summer School, ZJU
Summer 2023, Coordinator & TA in the International Visualization Summer School, ZJU
Winter 2023, Coordinator & TA in Cross Media Visualization and Information Visualization, ZJU