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📣 I am hiring PhD students with a half-scholarship provided (tuition fee + conference attendance).

🎯 The student will explore visualization in motion in a 3D environment. 

🎓 A successfully completed candidate will be awarded a PhD degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Liverpool (UK).
🏞️ The workplace is in Suzhou, a beautiful and open-minded Chinese city.
🗨️ The working language is English.
👋 International students are welcome.

I am an Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the Program Director of Computer Science and Technology. My research interests include visualization in motion, AI-assisted data communication, and human-AI interaction. My work received the Double-Innovation Doctor Program from Jiangsu Province, the PhD Thesis Prize from ACM AFIHM, and the Research Award from Canada Mitacs Globalink. Part of my work on visualization in motion was applied in the 2024 Paris Olympics swimming races. Before I joined XJTLU, I was a postdoctoral and doctoral researcher at INRIA and a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Université of Paris-Saclay, an Ing. from Polytech Lille, and a B.Eng. from XIDIAN University. Collaboration emails are more than welcome!

For students who are interested in Visualization - AI - Interaction and would like to conduct their PhD with me, please fill in the Google Form (https://forms.gle/aXG7jnjhFYQwRnQa8) or email me.

姚李捷博士，西交利物浦大学助理教授，博士生导师，计算机科学与技术（本科）专业主任，江苏省“双创博士”。她博士毕业于巴黎萨克雷大学，专注“运动中的可视化（Visualization in motion）”的感知、设计、原型构建、交互等研究；在 TVCG、IEEE VIS 等可视化领域顶级期刊/会议上发表学术成果 20 余篇；先后获加拿大Mitacs Globalink Research Award、ACM AFIHM 法国人机交互分会优秀博士论文；部分研究成果已应用于2024巴黎奥运游泳系列赛事。她现任中国图象图形学学会可视化与可视分析专委会委员；是 IEEE VIS (CCF-A) 组织委员会委员（OC）和程序委员会委员（PC），ACM VINCI、ChinaVis、ACM ETRA 程序委员会委员（PC）；曾任 IEEE VIS workshop co-organizer；常任 TVCG、VIS、EuroVis、PacificVis，CHI、UIST、MobileHCI、ISMAR、VR等可视化和交互领域顶级期刊和会议审稿人。

对于对可视化 - 人工智能 - 交互感兴趣并希望申请我博士/硕士/研究助理的同学，请填写 Google 表单（https://forms.gle/aXG7jnjhFYQwRnQa8）或给我发邮件。

My research interests include but are not limited to visualization, interaction, and artificial intelligence.

• Visualization:

I mainly focus on situated and embedded visualization, as well as visualization in motion. I am always contributing to understanding how motion characteristics and spatial factors affect the perception, design, and application of visualization. My research journey includes basic exploration, prototype development, and real application. The ultimate goal of my research is to help the general public better understand the data, get useful insights from information, and make decisions easily in daily life.

• Interaction:

I am interested in investigating how users can better interact with and explore information, especially with complex data and/or by multimodal interactions. The research aims to, based on specific application scenarios, explore and develop innovative interaction techniques, simplify interactions with a human-centered approach, and improve the user experience.

• Artificial Intelligence:

For artificial intelligence (AI), my interests are in exploring how it can help with research on visualization, or broader HCI, what aspects need to be improved, and how. My work here includes preliminary investigation, systematic review, specific model training, and answering how-to questions.   

• Third Prize in the XIPU "AI in Education" Innovation Competition (STEM Staff Group), XJTLU, China, May 2026.
• First-round Certificate in XJTLU Global Dream-Chasers Entrepreneurial Competition, April 2026.
• Jiangsu Provincial Double-Innovation Doctor Program 江苏省“双创博士”，Dec. 2025
• Excellent SURF Poster Awards x 2, Student-nominated SURF Winner x 1, XJTLU, China, Sept. 2025.
• Poster Honorable Mention Award at ChinaVis, Hangzhou, July 2025. 
• Second Prize in the XIPU "AI in Education" Innovation Competition (Staff Group), XJTLU, China, Feb. 2025.
• ACM AFIHM PhD Thesis Prize (Français: Prix de Thèse AFIHM) (only 2 annual recipients), France, March 2024
• Canada Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada, May 2023
• Excellent Undergraduate Award 优秀毕业生, XIDIAN University 西安电子科技大学, China, June 2018

I design and (co-)teach the following modules at XJTLU: 

From 2021 to 2023, I (co-)taught the graduate courses on Interactive Information Visualization at University Paris-Saclay (~50 students):

• CM: Animated Visualization
• CM: Time-series Visualization
• TP: Interactive Visualization through D3.js 
• TP: Tutorials on P5.js
• TD: Sketch and Design
• Project: Course Final Project

• 03/2020 - 03/2024 - Inria - Postdoctoral Researcher / Doctoral Researcher / Research Intern
• 07/2023 - 10/2023 - University of Calgary - Visiting Researcher
• 09/2021 - 08/2023 - University Paris-Saclay - Teaching Assistant
• 03/2019 - 09/2020 - Saint-Gobain - International Industry Management
• 06/2018 - 08/2018 - MCC - Front-end Developper