{"id":168,"date":"2024-03-12T23:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:59:24","slug":"dr-xinhuan-shu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/dr-xinhuan-shu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Xinhuan Shu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong> Lecturer in Data Science<br><strong>Research Group:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/computing\/research\/scalable-computing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/computing\/research\/scalable-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scalable Computing<\/a><br><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xinhuan is a Lecturer in Computer Science. Her research aims to engage humans in interacting with the world of data through visualisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2024\/03\/sxh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2024\/03\/sxh.jpg 470w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2024\/03\/sxh-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2024\/03\/sxh-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 85vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My name is pronounced <strong>Shin-whan Shoo<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am <strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I speak \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 and \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My pronouns are she\/her<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Xinhuan Shu is a lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. Prior to that, she was a PostDoc Fellow, advised by Prof. Benjamin Bach in VisHub at University of Edinburgh. Xinhuan obtained my Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Huamin Qu in VisLab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shuxinhuan.github.io\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shuxinhuan.github.io\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhuan&#8217;s Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Xinhuan&#8217;s research lies at the intersection of data visualisation, human-computer interaction, and machine learning, where her work aims to engage humans in interacting with the world of data through visualisation. I work on developing expressive visualisation techniques and human-AI interfaces that facilitate human-data interaction at various data activities, including data transformation, analysis, communication, and decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1195 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-30 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Zhu, J., Cheng, X., Luo, Z., Zhou, Y., Shu, X., Weng, D., &amp; Wu, Y. (2025). ViseGPT: Towards Better Alignment of LLM-generated Data Wrangling Scripts and User Prompts. Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 1\u201316. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3746059.3747689\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3746059.3747689<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1190 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-30 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Xie, L., Lin, Y., Liu, C., Qu, H., &amp; Shu, X<strong>.<\/strong> (2025). DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1\u201311. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/TVCG.2025.3634635\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/TVCG.2025.3634635<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-929 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-30 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Li, D., Guo, X., Shu, X., Xiao, L., Yu, L., &amp; Liu, S. (2025). RouteFlow: Trajectory-Aware Animated Transitions. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1\u201317. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3706598.3714300\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3706598.3714300<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 Best Paper at CHI 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-687 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-13 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Shu, X., Pister, A., Tang, J., Chevalier, F., &amp; Bach, B. (2024). Does This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations. <em>IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics<\/em> (VIS&#8217;24). <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2408.01272\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2408.01272<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 Best Paper at IEEE VIS 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-685 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-13 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Wang, J., Shu, X., Bach, B., &amp; Hinrichs, U. (2024). Visualization atlases: Explaining and exploring complex topics through data, visualization, and narration. <em>IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics<\/em> (VIS&#8217;24). <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2408.07483\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2408.07483<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-683 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-13 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Zhongsu Luo, Kai Xiong, Jiajun Zhu, Ran Chen, Xinhuan Shu, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu (2024). Ferry: Toward Better Understanding of Input\/Output Space for Data Wrangling Scripts. <em>IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics<\/em> (VIS&#8217;24). <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10670464\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10670464<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-675 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-publication tag-13 tag-xinhuan\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Yanwei Huang, Yurun Yang, Xinhuan Shu, Ran Chen, Di Weng, and Yingcai Wu. 2024. Table Illustrator: Puzzle-based interactive authoring of plain tables. <em>In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/em> (CHI &#8217;24). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3613904.3642415\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3613904.3642415<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role: Lecturer in Data ScienceResearch Group: Scalable ComputingEmail: xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk Xinhuan is a Lecturer in Computer Science. Her research aims to engage humans in interacting with the world of data through visualisation. About me Bio Xinhuan Shu is a lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. 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