† indicates equal contribution.
2021
[C18]

Xingjun Li, Yuanxin Wang, Hong Wang, Yang Wang, Jian Zhao.
NBSearch: Semantic Search and Visual Exploration of Computational Notebooks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 (In Press).
[C17]

Siyuan Xia, Nafisa Anzum, Semih Salihoglu, Jian Zhao.
KTabulator: Interactive Ad hoc Table Creation using Knowledge Graphs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 (In Press).
2020
[J19]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks with MissBiN. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (In Press).
[J18]

Jian Zhao, Mingming Fan, Mi Feng.
ChartSeer: Interactive Steering Exploratory Visual Analysis with Machine Intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (In Press).
[C16]

Takanori Fujiwara, Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Kwan‑Liu Ma.
A Visual Analytics Framework for Contrastive Network Analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2020 (In Press).
[B1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins.
Designing Tree Visualization Techniques for Discourse Analysis. LingVis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics, M. Butt, A. Hautli-Janisz, and V. Lyding (Editors), Chapter 3, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2020.
[W11]

Zejiang Shen, Jian Zhao, Melissa Dell, Yaoliang Yu, Weining Li.
OLALA: Object-Level Active Learning Based Layout Annotation. arXiv:2010.01762, 2020.
[W10]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Linping Yuan, Zhicheng Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma, Huamin Qu.
ICE: Identify and Compare Event Sequence Sets through Multi-Scale Matrix and Unit Visualizations. arXiv:2006.12718, 2020.
[W9]

Takanori Fujiwara, Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Yaoliang Yu, Kwan‑Liu Ma.
Interpretable Contrastive Learning for Networks. arXiv:2005.12419, 2020.
[W8]

Brad Glasbergen, Michael Abebe, Khuzaima Daudjee, Daniel Vogel, Jian Zhao.
Sentinel: Understanding Data Systems. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference (Demo), pp. 2729-2732, 2020.
Best Demo
2019
[J17]

Mingming Fan, Ke Wu†, Jian Zhao†, Yue Li, Winter Wei, Khai Truong.
VisTA: Integrating Machine Intelligence with Visualization to Support the Investigation of Think-Aloud Sessions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2019), 26(1), pp. 343-352, 2020.
[J16]

Maoyuan Sun, Jian Zhao, Hao Wu, Kurt Luther, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan.
The Effect of Edge Bundling and Seriation on Sensemaking of Biclusters in Bipartite Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(10), pp. 2983-2998, 2019.
[J15]

Zhicong Lu, Mingming Fan, Yun Wang, Jian Zhao, Michelle Annett, Daniel Wigdor.
InkPlanner: Supporting Prewriting via Intelligent Visual Diagramming. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2018), 25(1), pp. 277-287, 2019.
[C15]

John Wenskovitch, Jian Zhao, Scott Carter, Matthew Cooper, Chris North.
Albireo: An Interactive Tool for Visually Summarizing Computational Notebook Structure. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visualization in Data Science, pp. 1-10, 2019.
[S4]

Cheonbok Park, Inyoup Na, Yongjang Jo, Sungbok Shin, Yoo Jaehyo, Bum Chul Kwon, Jian Zhao, Hyungjong Noh, Yeonsoo Lee, Jaegul Choo.
SANVis: Visual Analytics for Understanding Self-Attention Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 146-150, 2019.
[S3]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
MissBiN: Visual Analysis of Missing Links in Bipartite Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 71-75, 2019.
[S2]

Maoyuan Sun, David Koop, Jian Zhao, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan
Interactive Bicluster Aggregation in Bipartite Graphs. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 246-250, 2019.
[C14]

Mona Loorak, Wei Zhou, Ha Trinh, Jian Zhao, Wei Li.
Hand-Over-Face Input Sensing for Interaction with Smartphones through the Built-in Camera. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp. 32:1-32:12, 2019.
Best Paper
[C13]

Hao-Fei Cheng, Bowen Yu, Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Brent Hecht, Joseph Konstan, Loren Terveen, Svetlana Yarosh, Haiyi Zhu.
Teaching UI Design at Global Scales: A Case Study of the Design of Collaborative Capstone Projects for MOOCs. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, pp. 11:1-11:11, 2019.
[W7]

Chidansh Bhatt, Jian Zhao, Hideto Oda, Francine Chen, Matthew Lee.
OPaPi: Optimized Parts Pick-up Routing for Efficient Manufacturing. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics, 5:1-5:8, 2019.
2018
[J14]

Shenyu Xu†, Chris Bryan†, Kelvin Li†, Jian Zhao, Kwan-Liu Ma.
Chart Constellations: Effective Chart Summarization for Collaborative and Multi-User Analyses. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2018), 37(3), pp. 75-86, 2018.
[J13]

Wen Zhong, Wei Xu, Kevin Yager, Gregory Doerk, Jian Zhao, Yunke Tian, Sungsoo Ha, Cong Xie, Yuan Zhong, Klaus Mueller, Kerstin Kleese Van Dam.
MultiSciView: Multivariate Scientific X-ray Image Visual Exploration with Cross-Data Space Views. Visual Informatics (Proceedings of PacificVAST 2018), 2(1), pp. 14-25, 2018.
[C12]

Chidansh Bhatt, Matthew Cooper, Jian Zhao.
SeqSense: Video Recommendation Using Topic Sequence Mining. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, pp. 252-263, 2018.
[C11]

Jian Zhao, Chidansh Bhatt, Matthew Cooper, David Shamma.
Flexible Learning with Semantic Visual Exploration and Sequence-Based Recommendation of MOOC Videos. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 329:1--329:13, 2018.
[C10]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Hao-Fei Cheng, Haiyi Zhu, Jennifer Marlow.
T-Cal: Understanding Team Conversation Data with Calendar-based Visualization. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 500:1-500:13, 2018.
[W6]

Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
A Generic Visualization Framework for Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference (Poster), 2018.
[W5]

Matthew Cooper, Jian Zhao, Chidansh Bhatt, David Shamma.
Using Recommendation to Explore Educational Video. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (Demo), 2018.
2017
[J12]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
BiDots: Visual Exploration of Weighted Biclusters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 195-204, 2018.
[J11]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Petra Isenberg, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
Supporting Handoff in Asynchronous Collaborative Sensemaking Using Knowledge-Transfer Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 340-350, 2018.
Honorable Mention
[J10]

Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu.
How Do Ancestral Traits Shape Family Trees over Generations? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 205-214, 2018.
[C9]

Mingqian Zhao, Yijia Su, Jian Zhao, Shaoyu Chen, Huamin Qu.
Mobile Situated Analytics of Ego-centric Network Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Visualization, pp. 14:1-14:8, 2017.
2016
[J9]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Simon Breslav, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
Annotation Graphs: A Graph-Based Visualization for Meta-Analysis of Data based on User-Authored Annotations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2016), 23(1), pp. 261-270, 2017.
[J8]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu.
Visual Analysis of MOOC Forums with iForum. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2016), 23(1), pp. 201-210, 2017.
[C8]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Fanny Chevalier, Yanhong Wu, Azam Khan.
Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLines. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 5003-5014, 2016.
Honorable Mention
[W4]

Jian Zhao, Ricardo Jota, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Augmenting Mobile Phone Interaction with Face-Engaged Gestures. arXiv:1610.00214, 2016.
2015
[J7]

Yanhong Wu, Naveen Pitipornvivat, Jian Zhao, Sixiao Yang, Guowei Huang, Huamin Qu.
egoSlider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2015), 22(1), pp. 260-269, 2016.
[J6]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Exploring and Modeling Unimanual Object Manipulation on Multi-Touch Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 78(0), pp. 68-80, 2015.
[C7]

Jian Zhao, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Aaron Hertzmann, Alan Wilson.
MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 259-268, 2015.
Honorable Mention
[C6]

Fan Du, Nan Cao, Jian Zhao, Yu-Ru Lin.
Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 289-298, 2015.
2014
[J5]

Jian Zhao, Nan Cao, Zhen Wen, Yale Song, Yu-Ru Lin, Christopher Collins.
#FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2014), 20(12), pp. 1773-1782, 2014.
Honorable Mention
[J4]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Xiangshi Ren, Ravin Balakrishnan.
A Model of Scrolling on Touch-Sensitive Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72(12), pp. 805-821, 2014.
[C5]

Jian Zhao, Liang Gou, Fei Wang, Michelle Zhou.
PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 203-212, 2014.
[C4]

Ji Wang, Jian Zhao, Sheng Guo, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan.
ReCloud: Semantics-based Word Cloud Visualization of User Reviews. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference, pp. 151-158, 2014.
2013
[J3]

Jian Zhao, Christopher Collins, Fanny Chevalier, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Interactive Exploration of Implicit and Explicit Relations in Faceted Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2013), 19(12), pp. 2080-2089, 2013.
[C3]

Jian Zhao, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan.
TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3009-3018, 2013.
[W3]

Ji Wang, Jian Zhao, Sheng Guo, Chris North.
Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Review. Yelp Dataset Challenge (Grand Prize Winner), 2013.
2012
[J2]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2012), 18(12), pp. 2639-2648, 2012.
[S1]

Jian Zhao, Steven Drucker, Danyel Fisher, Donald Brinkman.
TimeSlice: Interactive Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 433-436, 2012.
[W2]

Jian Zhao.
A Particle Filter Based Approach of Visualizing Time-varying Volume. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (Poster), 2012.
2011
[J1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Emmanuel Pietriga, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Exploratory Analysis of Time-Series with ChronoLenses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2011), 17(12), pp. 2422-2431, 2011.
[C2]

R. William Soukoreff, Jian Zhao, Xiangshi Ren.
The Entropy of a Rapid Aimed Movement: Fitts' Index of Difficulty versus Shannon's Entropy. Proceedings of 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Vol Part 4, pp. 222-239, 2011.
[C1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Ravin Balakrishnan.
KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1737-1746, 2011.
[W1]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Ravin Balakrishnan.
A Model of Multi-touch Manipulation GRAND'11: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Grand Conference (Poster), 2011.
Refereed Journal Articles
[J19]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks with MissBiN. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (In Press).
[J18]

Jian Zhao, Mingming Fan, Mi Feng.
ChartSeer: Interactive Steering Exploratory Visual Analysis with Machine Intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (In Press).
[J17]

Mingming Fan, Ke Wu†, Jian Zhao†, Yue Li, Winter Wei, Khai Truong.
VisTA: Integrating Machine Intelligence with Visualization to Support the Investigation of Think-Aloud Sessions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2019), 26(1), pp. 343-352, 2020.
[J16]

Maoyuan Sun, Jian Zhao, Hao Wu, Kurt Luther, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan.
The Effect of Edge Bundling and Seriation on Sensemaking of Biclusters in Bipartite Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(10), pp. 2983-2998, 2019.
[J15]

Zhicong Lu, Mingming Fan, Yun Wang, Jian Zhao, Michelle Annett, Daniel Wigdor.
InkPlanner: Supporting Prewriting via Intelligent Visual Diagramming. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2018), 25(1), pp. 277-287, 2019.
[J14]

Shenyu Xu†, Chris Bryan†, Kelvin Li†, Jian Zhao, Kwan-Liu Ma.
Chart Constellations: Effective Chart Summarization for Collaborative and Multi-User Analyses. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2018), 37(3), pp. 75-86, 2018.
[J13]

Wen Zhong, Wei Xu, Kevin Yager, Gregory Doerk, Jian Zhao, Yunke Tian, Sungsoo Ha, Cong Xie, Yuan Zhong, Klaus Mueller, Kerstin Kleese Van Dam.
MultiSciView: Multivariate Scientific X-ray Image Visual Exploration with Cross-Data Space Views. Visual Informatics (Proceedings of PacificVAST 2018), 2(1), pp. 14-25, 2018.
[J12]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
BiDots: Visual Exploration of Weighted Biclusters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 195-204, 2018.
[J11]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Petra Isenberg, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
Supporting Handoff in Asynchronous Collaborative Sensemaking Using Knowledge-Transfer Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 340-350, 2018.
Honorable Mention
[J10]

Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu.
How Do Ancestral Traits Shape Family Trees over Generations? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 205-214, 2018.
[J9]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Simon Breslav, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
Annotation Graphs: A Graph-Based Visualization for Meta-Analysis of Data based on User-Authored Annotations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2016), 23(1), pp. 261-270, 2017.
[J8]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu.
Visual Analysis of MOOC Forums with iForum. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2016), 23(1), pp. 201-210, 2017.
[J7]

Yanhong Wu, Naveen Pitipornvivat, Jian Zhao, Sixiao Yang, Guowei Huang, Huamin Qu.
egoSlider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2015), 22(1), pp. 260-269, 2016.
[J6]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Exploring and Modeling Unimanual Object Manipulation on Multi-Touch Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 78(0), pp. 68-80, 2015.
[J5]

Jian Zhao, Nan Cao, Zhen Wen, Yale Song, Yu-Ru Lin, Christopher Collins.
#FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2014), 20(12), pp. 1773-1782, 2014.
Honorable Mention
[J4]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Xiangshi Ren, Ravin Balakrishnan.
A Model of Scrolling on Touch-Sensitive Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72(12), pp. 805-821, 2014.
[J3]

Jian Zhao, Christopher Collins, Fanny Chevalier, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Interactive Exploration of Implicit and Explicit Relations in Faceted Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 2013), 19(12), pp. 2080-2089, 2013.
[J2]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2012), 18(12), pp. 2639-2648, 2012.
[J1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Emmanuel Pietriga, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Exploratory Analysis of Time-Series with ChronoLenses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2011), 17(12), pp. 2422-2431, 2011.
Refereed Conference Papers
[C18]

Xingjun Li, Yuanxin Wang, Hong Wang, Yang Wang, Jian Zhao.
NBSearch: Semantic Search and Visual Exploration of Computational Notebooks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 (In Press).
[C17]

Siyuan Xia, Nafisa Anzum, Semih Salihoglu, Jian Zhao.
KTabulator: Interactive Ad hoc Table Creation using Knowledge Graphs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 (In Press).
[C16]

Takanori Fujiwara, Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Kwan‑Liu Ma.
A Visual Analytics Framework for Contrastive Network Analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2020 (In Press).
[C15]

John Wenskovitch, Jian Zhao, Scott Carter, Matthew Cooper, Chris North.
Albireo: An Interactive Tool for Visually Summarizing Computational Notebook Structure. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visualization in Data Science, pp. 1-10, 2019.
[S4]

Cheonbok Park, Inyoup Na, Yongjang Jo, Sungbok Shin, Yoo Jaehyo, Bum Chul Kwon, Jian Zhao, Hyungjong Noh, Yeonsoo Lee, Jaegul Choo.
SANVis: Visual Analytics for Understanding Self-Attention Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 146-150, 2019.
[S3]

Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
MissBiN: Visual Analysis of Missing Links in Bipartite Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 71-75, 2019.
[S2]

Maoyuan Sun, David Koop, Jian Zhao, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan
Interactive Bicluster Aggregation in Bipartite Graphs. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Conference, pp. 246-250, 2019.
[C14]

Mona Loorak, Wei Zhou, Ha Trinh, Jian Zhao, Wei Li.
Hand-Over-Face Input Sensing for Interaction with Smartphones through the Built-in Camera. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp. 32:1-32:12, 2019.
Best Paper
[C13]

Hao-Fei Cheng, Bowen Yu, Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Brent Hecht, Joseph Konstan, Loren Terveen, Svetlana Yarosh, Haiyi Zhu.
Teaching UI Design at Global Scales: A Case Study of the Design of Collaborative Capstone Projects for MOOCs. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, pp. 11:1-11:11, 2019.
[C12]

Chidansh Bhatt, Matthew Cooper, Jian Zhao.
SeqSense: Video Recommendation Using Topic Sequence Mining. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, pp. 252-263, 2018.
[C11]

Jian Zhao, Chidansh Bhatt, Matthew Cooper, David Shamma.
Flexible Learning with Semantic Visual Exploration and Sequence-Based Recommendation of MOOC Videos. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 329:1--329:13, 2018.
[C10]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Hao-Fei Cheng, Haiyi Zhu, Jennifer Marlow.
T-Cal: Understanding Team Conversation Data with Calendar-based Visualization. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 500:1-500:13, 2018.
[C9]

Mingqian Zhao, Yijia Su, Jian Zhao, Shaoyu Chen, Huamin Qu.
Mobile Situated Analytics of Ego-centric Network Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Visualization, pp. 14:1-14:8, 2017.
[C8]

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Fanny Chevalier, Yanhong Wu, Azam Khan.
Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLines. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 5003-5014, 2016.
Honorable Mention
[C7]

Jian Zhao, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Aaron Hertzmann, Alan Wilson.
MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 259-268, 2015.
Honorable Mention
[C6]

Fan Du, Nan Cao, Jian Zhao, Yu-Ru Lin.
Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 289-298, 2015.
[C5]

Jian Zhao, Liang Gou, Fei Wang, Michelle Zhou.
PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 203-212, 2014.
[C4]

Ji Wang, Jian Zhao, Sheng Guo, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan.
ReCloud: Semantics-based Word Cloud Visualization of User Reviews. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference, pp. 151-158, 2014.
[C3]

Jian Zhao, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan.
TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3009-3018, 2013.
[S1]

Jian Zhao, Steven Drucker, Danyel Fisher, Donald Brinkman.
TimeSlice: Interactive Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 433-436, 2012.
[C2]

R. William Soukoreff, Jian Zhao, Xiangshi Ren.
The Entropy of a Rapid Aimed Movement: Fitts' Index of Difficulty versus Shannon's Entropy. Proceedings of 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Vol Part 4, pp. 222-239, 2011.
[C1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Ravin Balakrishnan.
KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1737-1746, 2011.
Book Chapter
[B1]

Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins.
Designing Tree Visualization Techniques for Discourse Analysis. LingVis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics, M. Butt, A. Hautli-Janisz, and V. Lyding (Editors), Chapter 3, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2020.
Work-in-Progress and Others
[W11]

Zejiang Shen, Jian Zhao, Melissa Dell, Yaoliang Yu, Weining Li.
OLALA: Object-Level Active Learning Based Layout Annotation. arXiv:2010.01762, 2020.
[W10]

Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Linping Yuan, Zhicheng Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma, Huamin Qu.
ICE: Identify and Compare Event Sequence Sets through Multi-Scale Matrix and Unit Visualizations. arXiv:2006.12718, 2020.
[W9]

Takanori Fujiwara, Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Yaoliang Yu, Kwan‑Liu Ma.
Interpretable Contrastive Learning for Networks. arXiv:2005.12419, 2020.
[W8]

Brad Glasbergen, Michael Abebe, Khuzaima Daudjee, Daniel Vogel, Jian Zhao.
Sentinel: Understanding Data Systems. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference (Demo), pp. 2729-2732, 2020.
Best Demo
[W7]

Chidansh Bhatt, Jian Zhao, Hideto Oda, Francine Chen, Matthew Lee.
OPaPi: Optimized Parts Pick-up Routing for Efficient Manufacturing. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics, 5:1-5:8, 2019.
[W6]

Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu.
A Generic Visualization Framework for Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference (Poster), 2018.
[W5]

Matthew Cooper, Jian Zhao, Chidansh Bhatt, David Shamma.
Using Recommendation to Explore Educational Video. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (Demo), 2018.
[W4]

Jian Zhao, Ricardo Jota, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan.
Augmenting Mobile Phone Interaction with Face-Engaged Gestures. arXiv:1610.00214, 2016.
[W3]

Ji Wang, Jian Zhao, Sheng Guo, Chris North.
Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Review. Yelp Dataset Challenge (Grand Prize Winner), 2013.
[W2]

Jian Zhao.
A Particle Filter Based Approach of Visualizing Time-varying Volume. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (Poster), 2012.
[W1]

Jian Zhao, R. William Soukoreff, Ravin Balakrishnan.
A Model of Multi-touch Manipulation GRAND'11: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Grand Conference (Poster), 2011.
Thesis
[T1]

Jian Zhao
Interactive Visual Data Exploration: A Multi-Focus Approach. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2015.
Patents
[P19]
Takanori Fujiwara, Jian Zhao, Francine Chen. System and Method for Contrastive Network Analysis and Visualization. Filed in 2020.
[P18]
Jian Zhao System and Method for Summarizing and Steering Multi-User Collaborative Data Analysis. Filed in 2019.
[P17]
Jian Zhao, Francine Chen System and Method for Automatically Sorting Ranked Items and Generating a Visual Representation of Ranked Results. Filed in 2019.
[P16]
Hideto Oda, Chidansh Bhatt, Jian Zhao. Optimized Parts Pickup List and Routes for Efficient Manufacturing using Frequent Pattern Mining and Visualization. Filed in 2018.
[P15]
Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu. A Visual Analysis Framework for Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks. Filed in 2018.
[P14]
John Wenskovitch, Jian Zhao, Matthew Cooper, Scott Catter System and Method for Computational Notebook Interface. Filed in 2018.
[P13]
Francine Chen, Jian Zhao, Yan-Ying Chen. System and Method for Generating Titles for Summarizing Conversational Documents. Filed in 2018.
[P12]
Jian Zhao, Yan-Ying Chen, Francine Chen. System and Method for Creating Visual Representation of Data based on Generated Glyphs. Filed in 2018.
[P11]
Jian Zhao, Chidansh Bhatt, Matthew Cooper, Ayman Shamma. System and Method for Visualizing and Recommending Media Content Based on Sequential Context. Filed in 2018.
[P10]
Jian Zhao, Siwei Fu. System and Method for Analyzing and Visualizing Team Conversational Data. Filed in 2017.
[P9]
Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu. System and Method for Visual Exploration of Sub-Network Patterns in Two-Mode Networks. Filed in 2017.
[P8]
Jian Zhao, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu. System for Visually Exploring Coordinated Relationships in Data. Filed in 2017.
[P7]
Francine Chen, Jian Zhao, Yan-Ying Chen. System and Method for User-Oriented Topic Selection and Browsing. Filed in 2017.
[P6]
Michael Glueck, Azam Khan, Jian Zhao. Handoff Support in Asynchronous Analysis Tasks using Knowledge Transfer Graphs. US20180081885 A1, 2018.
[P5]
Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan, Simon Breslay. Techniques For Mixed-Initiative Visualization of Data. US20180081862 A1, 2018.
[P4]
Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan. Node-Centric Analysis of Dynamic Networks. US10142198 B2, 2018.
[P3]
Mira Dontcheva, Jian Zhao, Aaron Hertzmann, Allan Wilson, Zhicheng Liu. Providing Visualizations of Event Sequence Data. US9577897 B2, 2017.
[P2]
Liang Gou, Fei Wang, Jian Zhao, Michelle Zhou. Personal Emotion State Monitoring from Social Media. US20150213002 A1, 2015.
[P1]
Jian Zhao, Steven Drucker, Danyel Fisher, Donald Brinkman. Relational Rendering of Multi-Faceted Data. US8872849 B2, 2014.