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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 in the Department of Computing, School of Advanced Technology. Before I joined Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, I was a postdoctoral and doctoral researcher at INRIA, and a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université of Paris-Saclay. My dissertation received the PhD Thesis Prize from ACM AFIHM and the Canada Mitacs Globalink Research Award. Part of my work on visualization in motion was applied in the 2024 Paris Olympics swimming races. My research interests include visualization in motion, AI-assisted data communication, and human-AI interaction. I also conduct side projects for fun. 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。她博士毕业于法国巴黎萨克雷大学，专注运动可视化（Visualization in motion）感知、设计、原型开发、交互等研究。其博士论文先后获加拿大Mitacs Globalink研究奖、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。她曾于2020年至2024年在INRIA法国国家信息与自动化研究所任博士后研究员和博士研究员；于 2023年在加拿大卡尔加里大学任访问学者。近三年来，她在TVCG、IEEE VIS、EuroVis、MobileHCI, ChinaVis等可视化领域高水平期刊和会议上发表各类研究成果二十余篇。她是IEEE VIS 2026组织委员会委员（OC），IEEE VIS 2025/ACM ETRA 2025/VINCI 2025程序委员会委员（PC），IEEE VIS 2024 工作坊联合组织者；中国图象图形学学会可视化与可视分析专委会委员； 长期任TVCG、VIS、EuroVis、PacificVis，CHI、UIST、MobileHCI、ISMAR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.   

• 2 x Excellent SURF Poster Awards, 1 x Student-nominated SURF Winner, XJTLU, China, 2025.
• Honorable Mention Award for Poster at ChinaVis, Hangzhou, July 2025. 
• Second Prize in the "XIPU AI in Education" Innovation Competition (Staff Group), XJTLU, China, 2025.
• AFIHM PhD Thesis Prize (Français: Prix de Thèse AFIHM) (only 2 annual recipients), France, 2024
• Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada, 2023
• Excellent Undergraduate Award 优秀毕业生, XIDIAN University 西安电子科技大学, China, 2018

In the academic year 2024/2025, I will (co-)teach the following courses:

• SAT006 - Foundations of Computer Science and Engineering (Leader of Computer Science Part), ~710 students.
• CPT210 - Microprocessor Systems (Module Leader), ~544 students.

From 2021 to 2023, I (co-)taught the Master 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