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Name: Shixia LIU
Title: Professor
Email: shixia@tsinghua.edu.cn
Telephone: 010-62795460
Research Fields: Explainable artificial intelligence, visual text analytics, text mining
Homepage: http://shixialiu.com/
Introduction: Shixia Liu is a professor at Tsinghua University. Her research interests include explainable machine learning, visual text analytics, and text mining. Before joining Tsinghua University, she worked as a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a research staff member and research manager at IBM China Research Lab. Shixia was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in 2021 and induced into IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020. She is an associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence. She was one of the Papers Co-Chairs of IEEE VIS (VAST) 2016 and 2017 and is in the steering committee of IEEE VIS (2020-2023) and IEEE VDS (2020-2021).
Education Background
1998.9-2002.7 Ph.D in Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University
1996.9-1998.7 MS in Department of Mathematics Harbin Institute of Technology
1992.9-1996.7 BS in Department of Mathematics Harbin Institute of Technology
Working Experiences
2021.06-now Tsinghua University Professor
2018.01-2021.06 Tsinghua University Tenured Associate Professor
2014.12-2018.01 Tsinghua University Associate Professor
2002.04-2010.05 IBM China Research Lab Senior Research Member, Research Manager
2010.06-2014.12 Microsoft Research Asia Lead Researcher
Honors and Awards
2021, IEEE Fellow
2021, Honorable Mention Award of IEEE VIS
2020, IEEE Visualization Academy
2020, Best Mentor Award of Tsinghua University
2020, Honorable Mention Award of IEEE VIS
2019, Excellent Class Teacher of Tsinghua university
2016, Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE TVCG
2014, Honorable Mention Award of IEEE VIS
2012, Microsoft Ship-It Award
2011, Microsoft Ship-It Award
2010, IBM Research accomplishment
2006, IBM Master Inventor
Academic Services
Steering Committee
IEEE VIS, 2020~
VINCI, 2012~2013
Associate Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019~
General Chair
Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS, 2018
Papers Co-chair
IEEE VIS (VAST) 2016，2017
Associate Editor
Artificial Intelligence, 2021~
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2015~2018
IEEE Transactions on Big data, 2018~
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems , 2019~
Editorial Board
Information Visualization, 2015~
Journal of Visualization, 2018~
Academic Achievements
My research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, visual text analytics, and text mining. I have published 50+ papers in ACM/IEEE Transactions and CCF class-A conferences, which includes 2 ESI highly cited papers, 1 ESI hot paper, 2 IEEE TVCG spotlights, and 2 IEEE VIS honorable mentions. I have been granted 50+ patents.
5 representative papers：
1. Kelei Cao, Mengchen Liu, Hang Su, Jing Wu, Jun Zhu, Shixia Liu*. Analyzing the Noise Robustness of Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (accepted). 2020
2. Mengchen Liu, Jiaxin Shi, Kelei Cao, Jun Zhu, S Liu*. Analyzing the Training Processes of Deep Generative Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2018, 24(1): 77-87 (ESI highly cited paper)
3. Mengchen Liu, Jiaxin Shi, Zhen Li, Chongxuan Li, Jun Zhu, Shixia Liu*. Towards Better Analysis of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2017, 23(1): 91-100 (ESI hot paper and highly cited paper)
4. Xiting Wang, Shixia Liu*, Junlin Liu, Jianfei Chen, Jun Zhu, Baining Guo. TopicPanorama: A Full Picture of Relevant Topics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer. 2016, 22(12): 2508-2521 (IEEE TVCG spotlight paper)
5. Shixia Liu, Michelle X. Zhou, Shimei Pan, Yangqiu Song, Weihong Qian, Weijia Cai, Xiaoxiao Lian. TIARA: Interactive, Topic-Based Visual Text Summarization and Analysis. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 2012, 3(2): 25
