Publications
For citations, please see my Google Scholar page (total: 6,000+, h-index: 29);
* indicates corresponding authors;
Conference papers that were published in journals (e.g., VIS papers published in IEEE TVCG journal) are listed in
the Referred Conference Papers.
Referred Conference Papers
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Who Defines "Best"? Towards Interactive, User-Defined Evaluation of LLM Leaderboards
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026)
(To be updated)
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Going PLACES: Participatory Localized Red Teaming for Text-to-Image Safety in the Global South
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026)
(To be updated)
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Bridging the Scale Gap: Augmenting Human Red-Teaming to Uncover Latent Risks in T2I Models
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026)
(To be updated)
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COMPASS: A Framework for Evaluating Organization-Specific Policy Alignment in LLMs
64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
arXiv PDF
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Data-Prompt Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)
DOI arXiv PDF
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Transformer Explainer: Learning LLM Transformers with Interactive Visual Explanation and Experimentation
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)
DOI PDF
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Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
arXiv PDF
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SafePath: Preventing Harmful Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought via Early Alignment
39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
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From Perception to Decision: Assessing the Role of Chart Types Affordances in High-Level Decision Tasks
IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS 2025) - Short Paper
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LLM Comparator: Interactive Analysis of Side-by-Side Evaluation of Large Language Models
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(1), 2025 (VIS 2024)
Deployed on Google's LLM Evaluation Platforms
Featured at Google I/O on Gemini Open Models and Responsible AI Toolkit
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Adversarial Nibbler: An Open Red-Teaming Method for Identifying Diverse Harms in Text-to-Image Generation
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2024)
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VLSlice: Interactive Vision-and-Language Slice Discovery
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
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Visualizing Linguistic Diversity of Text Datasets Synthesized by Large Language Models
IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS 2023) - Short Paper
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DendroMap: Visual Exploration of Large-Scale Image Datasets for Machine Learning with Treemaps
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1), 2023 (VIS 2022)
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Beyond Value: CheckList for Testing Inferences in Planning-Based RL
32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2022)
AAAI PDF -
FitVid: Responsive and Flexible Video Content Adaptation
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
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One Explanation is Not Enough: Structured Attention Graphs for Image Classification
35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
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Contrastive Identification of Covariate Shift in Image Data
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS 2021) - Short Paper
DOI PDF -
"Why did my AI agent lose?": Visual Analytics for Scaling Up After-Action Review
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS 2021) - Short Paper
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Doing Remote Controlled Studies with Humans: Tales from the COVID Trenches
ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2021)
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CNN Explainer: Learning Convolutional Neural Networks with Interactive Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 27(2), 2021 (VIS 2020)
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How Does Visualization Help People Learn Deep Learning? Evaluation of GAN Lab with Observational Study and Log Analysis
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS 2020) - Short Paper
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FairVis: Visual Analytics for Discovering Intersectional Bias in Machine Learning
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VIS 2019)
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GAN Lab: Understanding Complex Deep Generative Models using Interactive Visual Experimentation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(1), 2019 (VIS 2018)
Open sourced with Google AI
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ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1), 2018 (VIS 2017)
Deployed on Facebook ML Platform; Invited to present at SIGGRAPH'18 as a top VIS paper (4 total)
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FACETS: Adaptive Local Exploration of Large Graphs
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2017)
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Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 9(12) (VLDB 2016)
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M-Flash: Fast Billion-scale Graph Computation Using a Bimodal Block Processing Model
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2016)
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GLO-STIX: Graph-Level Operations for Specifying Techniques and Interactive eXploration
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12), 2014 (VIS 2014)
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MMap: Fast Billion-Scale Graph Computation on a PC via Memory Mappping
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2014)
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PathRank: A Novel Node Ranking Measure on a Heterogeneous Graph for Recommender Systems
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) - Short Paper
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Random Walk based Entity Ranking on Graph for Multidimensional Recommendation
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011)
DOI PDF
Journal Papers
This list does not include conference papers published in journal issues (e.g., VIS papers published in IEEE TVCG journal).-
Finding AI's Faults with AAR/AI: An Empirical Study
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 12(1), 2022.
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From Heatmaps to Structural Explanations of Image Classifiers
Applied AI Letters, 2021.
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From "No Clear Winner" to an Effective XAI Process: An Empirical Journey
Applied AI Letters, 2021.
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Visual Analytics in Deep Learning: An Interrogative Survey for the Next Frontiers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 25(8), 2019.
800 citations: 2nd most cited paper among all papers published in TVCG in 2018-2023
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Chronodes: Interactive Multifocus Exploration of Event Sequences
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 8(1), 2018.
Best Paper, Honorable Mention
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Understanding Variations in Pediatric Asthma Care Processes in the Emergency Department using Visual Analytics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(2) (Special Issue on Visual Analytics in Healthcare), 2015.
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Constructing Compact and Effective Graphs for Recommender Systems via Node and Edge Aggregations
Expert Systems with Applications, 42(7), 2015.
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PathRank: Ranking nodes on a heterogeneous graph for flexible hybrid recommender systems
Expert Systems with Applications, 40(2), 2013.
An extended version of the paper presented at CIKM 2012 listed below.
DOI
Referred Poster and Demo Papers
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LLM Adoption in Data Curation Workflows: Industry Practices and Insights
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) - Late Breaking Work Poster
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LLM Attributor: Interactive Visual Attribution for LLM Generation
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) - Demo
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Automatic Histograms: Leveraging Language Models for Text Dataset Exploration
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) - Late Breaking Work Poster
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Understanding the Dataset Practitioners Behind Large Language Model Development
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) - Late Breaking Work Poster
DOI arXiv PDF -
LLM Comparator: Visual Analytics for Side-by-Side Evaluation of Large Language Models
ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) - Late Breaking Work Poster
DOI arXiv PDF Blog Code
Deployed on Google's LLM Evaluation Platforms
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VIVA: Visual Exploration and Analysis of Videos with Interactive Annotation
28th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2023) - Demo
DOI PDF -
CNN 101: Interactive Visual Learning for Convolutional Neural Networks
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) - Late Breaking Work Poster
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mHealth Visual Discovery Dashboard
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2017) - Demo
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STEPS: A Spatio-temporal Electric Power Systems Visualization
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016) - Poster
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TimeStitch: Interactive Multi-focus Cohort Discovery and Comparison
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VIS 2015) - Poster
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AdaptiveNav: Adaptive Discovery of Interesting and Surprising Nodes in Large Graphs
IEEE VIS Conference (VIS 2015) - Poster
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GLOs: Graph-Level Operations for Exploratory Network Visualization
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) - WIP Poster
DOI PDF -
Exploiting Paths for Entity Search in RDF Graphs
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012) - Poster
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Ranking in Context-Aware Recommender Systems
International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2011) - Poster
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Si-Fi: Interactive Similar Item Finder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010) - Demo
DOI
Referred Workshop Papers
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Lexically-Constrained Automated Prompt Augmentation: A Case Study using Adversarial T2I Data
Safe Generative AI Workshop (at NeurIPS 2024)
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Backprop Explainer: Interactive Explanation of Backpropagation in Neural Network Training
4th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI) (at VIS 2021)
Interactive Article -
Identifying Reasoning Flaws in Planning-Based RL Using Tree Explanations
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (at IJCAI 2020)
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How Does Visualization Help People Learn Deep Learning? Evaluation of GAN Lab
Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems (at VIS 2019)
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Discovery of Intersectional Bias in Machine Learning Using Automatic Subgroup Generation
Ángel Alexander Cabrera,
Debugging Machine Learning Models Workshop (at ICLR 2019)
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Designing a Visual Analytic System for Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models
Workshop on Visual Analytics for Deep Learning (at VIS 2017)
A summary version of the paper presented at VIS 2017 listed above.
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Visual Exploration of Machine Learning Results using Data Cube Analysis
Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA) (at SIGMOD 2016)
Deployed on Facebook ML Platform
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A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding Care Process Variation and Conformance
Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (at VIS 2015)
DOI -
Bicentric Visualization of Pediatric Asthma Care Process Activities
IEEE VIS Workshop on EHR Data (at VIS 2014)
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Towards Scalable Graph Computation on Mobile Devices
IEEE BigData Workshop on Scalable Machine Learning (at BigData 2014)
DOI PDF -
Exploring Clinical Care Processes Using Visual and Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities
KDD Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (at KDD 2014)
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Ranking Objects by Following Paths in Entity-Relationship Graphs
ACM Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (at CIKM 2011)
Best Paper Award
DOI PDF Slides
Others (Book Chapters and Invited Papers)
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Exploratory Visual Analytics of Mobile Health Data: Sensemaking Challenges and Opportunities
Mobile Health: Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications, Springer, 2017.
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Scalable Graph Exploration and Visualization: Sensemaking Challenges and Opportunities
International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (Invited), 2015.
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Exploiting Contextual Information from Event Logs for Personalized Recommendation
Computer and Information Science 2010, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2010.
DOI
Preprints
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When Cars Have Stereotypes: Auditing Demographic Bias in Objects from Text-to-Image Models
arXiv preprint, 2025.
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Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size
arXiv preprint, 2024.
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Interactive Prompt Debugging with Sequence Salience
arXiv preprint, 2024.
arXiv