Leo Zhicheng Liu
Associate Professor
Designs interactive visualization and data-analysis tools, including visualization authoring systems and AI-assisted data communication.
Leo Zhicheng Liu's lab at UMD works on visualization & visual analytics and signal processing & information theory. 21 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly CHI and CGF. 5 PhD students and 1 master's student. 5 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 19%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 5
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 2
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, CGF, CSCW, Findings of EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Visualization & visual analytics6 papers
- visualization4 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- designs interactive0 papers
- interactive visualization0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- —The CAPED Framework: Characterizing User Skills in Chart Authoring through the Lens of Tasks and Tools
- IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) Short PapersWhat Do We Mean When We Talk About Infographics?
20257 papers
- CHI (T1)Comparing Native and Non-native English Speakers’ Behaviors in Collaborative Writing through Visual Analytics
- Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VISContextualized Dynamic Explanations: A Vision
- CVPR WorkshopEvaluating VLMs as Accessibility Bridges for Process Visualizations
- Findings of EMNLPProcVQA: Benchmarking the Effects of Structural Properties in Mined Process Visualizations on Vision–Language Model Performance
- International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANNUncovering Causal Relation Shifts in Event Sequences under Out-of-Domain Interventions
- —VisAnatomy: An SVG Chart Corpus with Fine-Grained Semantic Labels
- CHI (T1)What-if Analysis for Business Professionals: Current Practices and Future Opportunities
20247 papers
- CSCW (T1)(Dis)placed Contributions: Uncovering Hidden Hurdles to Collaborative Writing Involving Non-Native Speakers, Native Speakers, and AI-Powered Editing Tools
- —A Multi-Level Task Framework for Event Sequence Analysis
- IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) Short PapersEvaluating the Semantic Profiling Abilities of LLMs for Natural Language Utterances in Data Visualization
- —Manipulable Semantic Components: A Computational Representation of Data Visualization Scenes
- CHI (T1)TutoAI: A Cross-domain Framework for AI-assisted Mixed-media Tutorial Creation on Physical Tasks
- —Unveiling How Examples Shape Visualization Design Outcomes
- In2WritingWordDecipher: Enhancing Digital Workspace Communication with Explainable AI for Non-native English Speakers
20235 papers
- CGFA Comparative Evaluation of Visual Summarization Techniques for Event Sequences
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Short PapersDocDancer: Authoring Ultra-responsive Documents with Layout Generation
- —Mystique: Deconstructing SVG Charts for Layout Reuse
- CGFThe State of the Art in Creating Visualization Corpora for Automated Chart Analysis
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Short PapersWhatsNext: Guidance-enriched Exploratory Data Analysis with Interactive, Low-Code Notebooks
Where alumni went5 listed
Apply to UMDFall 2027
Not announced yet
UMD Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- See program page
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- USGeorgia Tech
Christopher J. MacLellan
- Learning & education technology
- CNZhejiang
Lingyun Sun
- Interfaces & interaction techniques
- USGeorgia Tech
Munmun De Choudhury
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing
- USNYU
Claudio Silva
- Visualization & visual analytics
- GBUCL
Manolis Mavrikis
- Learning & education technology
- GBUCL
George Chalhoub
- Large language models
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- The lab homepage
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.