Rui SHENG

About Me

Nice to meet you! I am Rui SHENG (盛睿), currently a Ph.D. candidate in HKUST VisLab, at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Huamin Qu. Before joining HKUST, I obtained my B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2021 (rank 2/334).

My research interests lie in data visualization, human-AI collaboration and decision making, in particular focusing on how to leverage visual analytics to support decision making in crucial sectors such as healthcare, science, and e-learning.

I enjoy engaging in communication with others, not only limited to scientific research. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Research Interests

• Data Visualization: I have a passion for developing visual analytics systems that empower decision makers to make more efficient and informed choices.
• Human AI Collaboration: I have a keen interest in studying the synergistic collaboration between humans and AI, with a particular focus on exploring how data visualization can serve as a bridge between the two.
• Decision making: I specifically focus on sequential decision making in crucial sectors, such as healthcare and e-learning.

News

• [June, 2024] Our research proposal Visual Analytics of Student-AI Interaction Data for Generative AI-Assisted Learning was awarded approximately 1M HKD by the General Research Fund, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong!
• [Aug, 2023] Our UIST demo paper (first author) has been accepted!
• [July, 2023] Our VISAP paper has been accepted!
• [Oct, 2022] I passed the PQE and became a Ph.D. candidate!
• [Sept 1, 2021] I started my Ph.D. journey!
• [Apr 14, 2021] Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)!
• [2020] National Scholarship in Wuhan University.
• [2019] National Scholarship in Wuhan University.
• [2019] National College Mathematics Modeling Competition Competition Award M.
• [2019] The Second Prize of the National College Internet of Things Competition.
• [2018] The First Prize of the 10th National College Mathematics Competition(Non-math Major).

Ongoing Works

I am currently working on several research projects. My primary focus is on the application of AI in healthcare, as well as assisting different end users (such as clinicians, patients, and healthcare-related researchers) in making informed decisions through visualization and HCI methods. In addition, I am working on AI4Science and AI4Education.

Publications

Upcoming Papers

Here are some works that have been completed and are currently under review. We have not made them accessible to the public yet. Looking forward to some good news! In addition, please feel free to contact me if you are interested in those projects.

Collaborations

I am eager to collaborate with researchers worldwide. My goal is for our joint research outcomes to be accepted and widely shared.

• [Westlake University in China, Zhejiang University in China] I am collaborating with the team of Prof. Ziqing Li on human-AI collaboration for the medical domain.
• [Northwestern University in the USA] I am collaborating with Yifang Wang (post-doc in Northwestern) and Prof. Dashun Wang on leveraging visualizations to support the domain of Science of Science.
• [CMU in the USA, ETH Zurich in Switzerland] I have worked on a paper together with Adam Perer (an Assistant Professor in CMU) and Furui Cheng (post-doc in ETH) (Sept 2024).
• [Cornell University in the USA] I have collaborated with Xingbo Wang (post-doc in Cornell) and Prof. Fei Wang, where we hoped to develop a visual analytics tool to help the domain of clinical trials. The paper is under revision. Besides, we also have collaborated on a paper SciDaSynth (July 2024). (Under review)
• [Zhejiang University in China] Our survey paper has been submitted to Computer Science Review (June 2024). (Under review)
• [Sichuan University in China, Southeast University in China] I have collaborated with Prof. Min Zhu and Prof. Chuhan Shi on human-AI collaboration for science discovery (April 2024). (Under review)
• [UC Davis in the USA, Michigan State University in the USA] I have collaborated with Prof. Dongyu Liu and Prof. Winson Peng, where we focused on developing visual analytics solutions for mental health applications (April 2023). Our joint paper on this research is currently under review. (Under review)

Projects

• [Project leader] The project leader of the research proposal Visual Analytics of Student-AI Interaction Data for Generative AI-Assisted Learning (approximately 1M HKD by the General Research Fund, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, 2024-2027)
• [Project leader] The project leader of the project AI-Powered, Personalized Analysis and Feedback Platform for K-12 Education in Computational Thinking Skills (ITF project & CUHK project, approximately 450K HKD, 2023-2025)
• [Project member] The project member of the project AI-powered Audience Engagement Analysis for Virtual Communication (approximately 2M HKD by ITF, 2021-2023)

Services

Conference Helpers

• ChinaVis 2024 student helper

Teaching Assistant

• HKUST COMP 4321 Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data
• HKUST COMP 1021 Introduction to Computer Science
• HKUST COMP 2221 Exploring Artificial Intelligence

Conference Reviewers

• The China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (ChinaVis) 2023
• The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2023
• The Pacific Visualization (PacificVIS - TVCG track) 2024
• The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024
• The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2024
• The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Late Breaking Work (CHI-LBW) 2024
• Visual Informatics 2024
• The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025
• The Pacific Visualization (PacificVIS - TVCG track) 2025

VisLab Service

• Maintained our group's homepage for one year (2021-2022)
• In charge of the publicity of our group (including WeChat, Zhihu, RedBook, Twitter and other platforms)
• In charge of the BBS of our group

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