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About

I am an Associate Professor at 91亚色, Canada, and Director of the . I am also a member of the Connected Minds initiative, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Society, and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at 91亚色. Before joining 91亚色, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at with , and earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the under the supervision of .

My research aims to democratize data science and analytics by integrating information visualization, natural language processing (NLP), and human–computer interaction (HCI) to make data exploration more accessible, inclusive, and responsible. Our recent work advances multimodal large language models (LLMs) and agentic frameworks that connect language, vision, and interaction—producing influential and widely adopted benchmarks and models for data visualization and analytics.

My research has appeared in nearly 100 papers across leading venues in NLP (ACL, EMNLP, COLM), visualization (IEEE VIS, EuroVis), and HCI (CHI, UIST), earning multiple Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, as well as the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence. I serve as an Area Chair for the and on the IEEE VIS program committee.

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Research interests

• Multimodal AI for Visualization Understanding and Generation
• Human-Centered & Responsible AI for Data Visualization
• Agentic & Interactive AI for Data Science Workflows
• Visual & Interactive Document Analytics