Jiayi Zhou

About

Jiayi Zhou is a Ph.D. Student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Huamin Qu in the VisLab. Before that, she received her Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) degree in industrial design, graduating with honors as an Outstanding Graduate from Zhejiang University in 2024.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. She is curious about how creators "connect the dots" in storytelling amidst the explosion of information. She investigates how advanced Artificial Intelligence, including GenAI and computer vision models, can empower the visual storytelling process.

In daily life, Jiayi seeks moments of "connection" with nature, her beloved cat, her body, and like-minded individuals. She aspires to be a dedicated rower, an imaginative designer, and a perceptive photographer.

• [Sep. 2025] Excited to attend UIST 2025 in Busan, South Korea in late September!
• [Sep. 2025] Check my new posts about a New Zealand adventure and reflections from the rowing championship experience.
[May. 2024] Attending the CHI 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi!
[May. 2024] Our paper about human-AI co-creativity is going to be presented at CHI 2024. Grateful for the excellent collaboration with all co-authors :)
[Jan. 2024] Our paper about Fixed-order event sequence visualization has been accepted to TVCG 2024.
[Jul. 2023] Attending the ChinaVis 2023 conference in Chongqing, China!
[Aug. 2022] Our paper about interactive techniques has been accepted to UbiComp 2022.
[Jul. 2022] Our paper about data transformation has been accepted to VIS 2022.

Blog

Paper Submission Reflection: Behind the Scenes • What I Talk about When I Talk about Rowing • Jiayi's Bookshelf • Collecting the Dots

Service

Research Assistants

• [Mar. 2022 - June. 2024] Interactive Data Group, Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Yingcai Wu and Prof. Tan Tang
• [Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2022] Guanyun Lab, Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Guanyun Wang

Conference Reviewers

• [2024, 2025] The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
• [2025] The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)