Publications

Best Paper Award at the 14th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis 2021)
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the IEEE Visualization Conference 2022 (IEEE VIS 2022)
10 papers in top-tier venues, including IEEE TVCG, IEEE VIS, and CGF
20 peer-reviewed papers

2023

Visual Analytics on Network Forgetting for Task-Incremental Learning

Ziwei Li, Jiayi Xu, Wei-Lun Chao, Han-Wei Shen

Computer Graphics Forum, 2023. (Proc. EuroVis 2023)

[DOI][EuroGraphics][Preview]

2022

Reinforcement Learning for Load-balanced Parallel Particle Tracing

Jiayi Xu, Hanqi Guo, Han-Wei Shen, Mukund Raj, Skylar W. Wurster, Tom Peterka

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 29(6): 3052-3066, 2023.

[arXiv][DOI][preview][presentation][VIS 2022 Session Recording]

GNN-Surrogate: A Hierarchical and Adaptive Graph Neural Network for Parameter Space Exploration of Unstructured-Mesh Ocean Simulations

Neng Shi, Jiayi Xu, Skylar W. Wurster, Hanqi Guo, Jonathan Woodring, Luke P. Van Roekel, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(6): 2301-2313, 2022. (TVCG Special Issue on IEEE PacificVis 2022, Acceptance Rate: 5/75=6.67%)

[arXiv][DOI][GitHub][Presentation]

VDL-Surrogate: A View-Dependent Latent-based Model for Parameter Space Exploration of Ensemble Simulations

Neng Shi, Jiayi Xu, Haoyu Li, Hanqi Guo, Jonathan Woodring, Han-Wei Shen

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the IEEE Visualization Conference 2022 (IEEE VIS 2022)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 29(1): 820-830, 2023. (Proc. IEEE VIS 2022)

[arXiv][DOI][Suppl. Video][GitHub][Preview][Presentation][Award]

IDLat: An Importance-Driven Latent Generation Method for Scientific Data

Jingyi Shen, Haoyu Li, Jiayi Xu, Ayan Biswas, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 29(1): 679-689, 2023. (Proc. IEEE VIS 2022)

[arXiv][DOI][preview][presentation]

Deep Hierarchical Super Resolution for Scientific Data

Skylar W. Wurster, Hanqi Guo, Han-Wei Shen, Tom Peterka, Jiayi Xu

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 2022.

[arXiv][DOI]

2021

Asynchronous and Load-Balanced Union-Find for Distributed and Parallel Scientific Data Visualization and Analysis

Jiayi Xu, Hanqi Guo, Han-Wei Shen, Mukund Raj, Xueyun Wang, Xueqiao Xu, Zhehui Wang, Tom Peterka

Best Paper Award at the 14th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2021)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 27(6): 2808-2820, 2021. (TVCG Special Issue on IEEE PacificVis 2021, Acceptance Rate: 5/80=6.25%)

[arXiv][DOI][Presentation][Blurb][Award]

FTK: A Simplicial Spacetime Meshing Framework for Robust and Scalable Feature Tracking

Hanqi Guo, David Lenz, Jiayi Xu, Xin Liang, Wenbin He, Iulian R. Grindeanu, Han-Wei Shen, Tom Peterka, Todd Munson, Ian Foster

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 27(8): 3463-3480, 2021.

[arXiv][DOI][GitHub][Replicability Stamp][insideHPC News][ECP News]

KeywordMap: Attention-based Visual Exploration for Keyword Analysis

Yamei Tu, Jiayi Xu, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) (2021): 206-215

[DOI][Presentation]

IExchange: Asynchronous Communication and Termination Detection for Iterative Algorithms

Dmitriy Morozov, Tom Peterka, Hanqi Guo, Mukund Raj, Jiayi Xu, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) 2021

[DOI]

2020

Geometry-Driven Detection, Tracking and Visual Analysis of Viscous and Gravitational Fingers

Jiayi Xu, Soumya Dutta, Wenbin He, Joachim Moortgat, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 28(3): 1514-1528, 2022.

[arXiv][DOI][preview][presentation]

Microparticle Cloud Imaging and Tracking for Data-Driven Plasma Science

Zhehui Wang, Jiayi Xu, Yao E Kovach, Bradley T Wolfe, Edward Thomas Jr, Hanqi Guo, John E Foster, Han-Wei Shen

Physics of Plasmas 27.3 (2020): 033703

[arXiv][DOI]

Distribution-based Particle Data Reduction for In-situ Analysis and Visualization of Large-scale N-body Cosmological Simulations

Guan Li, Jiayi Xu, Tianchi Zhang, Guihua Shan, Han-Wei Shen, Ko-Chih Wang, Shihong Liao, Zhonghua Lu

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) (2020): 171-180

[paper][link]

2019

Statistical Super Resolution for Data Analysis and Visualization of Large Scale Cosmological Simulations

Ko-Chih Wang, Jiayi Xu, Jonathan Woodring, Han-Wei Shen

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) (2019): 303-312

[paper][link]

2017

EasySVM: A Visual Analysis Approach for Open-Box Support Vector Machines

Yuxin Ma, Wei Chen, Xiaohong Ma, Jiayi Xu, Xinxin Huang, Ross Maciejewski, Anthony K. H. Tung

My contribution: I implemented an interactive 3D scatterplot panel to observe high-dimensional elements through 3D projections.

Computational Visual Media 3.2 (2017): 161-175

[paper][link]

A Visual Analytical Approach for Transfer Learning in Classification

Yuxin Ma, Jiayi Xu, Fei Wang, Wei Chen

My contribution: I constructed and implemented the entire visual-analytics system.

Information Sciences 390 (2017): 54-69

[paper][link]

Spatio-temporal Flow Maps for Visualizing Movement and Contact Patterns

Bing Ni, Qiaomu Shen, Jiayi Xu, Huamin Qu

My contribution: I designed and implemented the flow-map visualizations of this paper.

Visual Informatics, 2017, 1(1): 57-64

[link]

2016

TelCoVis: Visual Exploration of Co-occurrence in Urban Human Mobility Based on Telco Data

Wenchao Wu, Jiayi Xu, Haipeng Zeng, Yixian Zheng, Huamin Qu, Bing Ni, Mingxuan Yuan, Lionel M Ni

My contribution: I constructed and implemented the entire visual-analytics system. I also designed the algorithm of the contour-based treemap visualization.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 22(1): 935-944, 2016. (Proc. IEEE VIS 2015)

[paper][DOI][preview]

2013

A Survey on Uncertainty Visualization

Hui Lei, Haidong Chen, Jiayi Xu, Xiangyang Wu, Wei Chen

Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics, 25, 3(2013), 294-303

[link] [paper]

A Visual Analysis Approach for Community Detection of Multi-Context Mobile Social Network

Yuxin Ma, Jiayi Xu, Dichao Peng, Ting Zhang, Chengzhe Jin, Huamin Qu, Wei Chen, Qunsheng Peng

Journal of Computer Science and Technology 28, 5(2013), 797-809

[link]

Posters

Geometry-Driven Detection, Tracking and Visual Analysis of Viscous and Gravitational Fingers

Jiayi Xu, Soumya Dutta, Wenbin He, Joachim Moortgat, Han-Wei Shen

2021 Annual CSE Student Research Poster Exhibition, The Ohio State University

Dissertation

Scalable Extraction and Visualization of Scientific Features with Load-Balanced Parallelism

Jiayi Xu

Committee: Han-Wei Shen (Advisor), Rephael Wenge (Committee Member), and Jian Chen (Committee Member)

2021, Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Computer Science and Engineering.

[PDF][link][event]

arXiv

VMap: An Interactive Rectangular Space-filling Visualization for Map-like Vertex-centric Graph Exploration

Jiayi Xu, Han-Wei Shen

arXiv:2306.00120

[arXiv]