CV

Education

M.Phil. in Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2025.9 -
Summer School in University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.7
B.Sc. in Information and Computing Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2020.9 - 2024.7
High School Attached to Northeast Normal University, 2017.9 - 2020.7

Work experience

2024.9 - 2025.8: Research Assistant
- Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Duties included: Assisted in research projects focusing on geographic visualization and smartwatch data representation.
- Supervisor: Dr. Yu Liu
2023.11 – 2024.2: Database Engineer
- Changchun FAW Communications Technology Co.,Ltd.
- Duties included: Designed and optimized database architecture for the OSS code management module.
2023.6 – 2023.9: AI Algorithm Engineer
- Beijing Beisen Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.
- Duties included: Integrated Beisen’s HR SaaS business with the SenGPT model using RESTful APIs.
2021.12 – 2022.1: AI Algorithm Engineer
- Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Duties included: Developed and optimized the Changchun City Public Security Bureau website homepage system.

Publications

Text-Color Hybrid Labeling for Multiclass Map Visualization: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Annotation Strategies(Honorable Mention Award at VINCI ‘25)

Xinyao Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Teng Ma, Lingyun Yu, and Yu Liu. 2025. Text-Color Hybrid Labeling for Multiclass Map Visualization: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Annotation Strategies. In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3769534.3769610

MapCraft: Dissecting and Designing Custom Geo-infographics (Honorable Mention Award at ChinaVIS 2024)

Zhang, X., Xu, Y., Li, K. et al. ChinaVis24.MapCraft: dissecting and designing custom geo-infographics. J Vis 28, 837–857 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-025-01059-4

Dissecting Geo-Infographics: A Study on Visualizing Geographic Data

Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Yu, L. Dissecting Geo-Infographics: A Study on Visualizing Geographic Data, IEEE VIS 2023 Posters, Melbourne, Australia, October 2023. https://virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2023/poster_v-vis-posters-1071.html