My name is Huanchen Wang (王焕辰). I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) from Sep. 2022 under CityU-SUSTech Joint PhD Programme, supervised by Prof. Yuxin Ma (from Southern University of Science and Technology), Prof. Zhicong Lu (from George Mason University, previously at CityUHK), and Zhichao Lu (CityuHK). I am a member of DEER Lab and DVA Lab.

I received my BEng degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in July, 2022, under the supervision of Professor Xuan Song.

My current research primarily focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the context of Creativity Supporting and Human-AI Collaboration, particularly as it relates to Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). I am also interested in Interactive Visual Analytics, with a focus on Explainable AI (XAI) and multi-modal models.

🔥 News

  • 2025.11: Attending to IEEE VIS 2025 (Vienna, Austria)!
  • 2025.10: Attending to ACM UIST 2025 (Busan, Korea)!
  • 2025.07: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE VIS 2025. Congrats to all the co-authors!
  • 2025.07: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM UIST 2025. Thanks to all the co-authors!
  • 2025.04: Attending to ACM CHI 2025 (Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan)!
  • 2025.02: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM CSCW 2025. Thanks to all the co-authors!
  • 2025.01: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM CHI 2025. Congrats to all the co-authors!
  • 2024.10: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM CSCW 2025. Thanks to all the co-authors!
  • 2024.05: Attending to ACM CHI 2024 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)!
  • 2024.01: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM CHI 2024. Congrats to all the co-authors!
  • 2023.01: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM CHI 2023. Thanks to all the co-authors!
  • 2022.10: 🎉🎉 Two papers are accepted by IEEE BigData 2022. Thanks to all the co-authors!
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📝 Publications

VIS 2025
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VisMoDAl: Visual Analytics for Evaluating and Improving Corruption Robustness of Vision-Language Models
Huanchen Wang*, Wencheng Zhang*, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhicong Lu, Yuxin Ma

(* = equal contribution)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2025), 2026. (to appear)

[arxiv] | [demo]

UIST 2025
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RAGTrace: Understanding and Refining Retrieval-Generation Dynamics in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Sizhe Cheng*, Jiaping Li*, Huanchen Wang, Yuxin Ma

(* = equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025), 2025.

[ACM Digital Library] | [arxiv] | [demo]

CHI 2025
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HarmonyCut: Supporting Creative Chinese Paper-cutting Design with Form and Connotation Harmony
Huanchen Wang*, Tianrun Qiu*, Jiaping Li, Zhicong Lu, Yuxin Ma

(* = equal contribution)

Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), 2025.

[ACM Digital Library] | [arxiv] | [presentation] | [demo]

CHI 2024
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Critical Heritage Studies as a Lens to Understand Short Video Sharing of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Douyin
Huanchen Wang, Minzhu Zhao, Wanyang Hu, Yuxin Ma, Zhicong Lu

Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), 2024.

[ACM Digital Library] | [presentation]

CHI 2023
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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2022-2026 Postgraduate Scholarship, SUSTech & CityU.
  • 2018 Third-class Outstanding Freshmen Scholarship, SUSTech.

📖 Educations

  • 2022.09 - current, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.07, Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

🔨 Services

  • Reviewer of ACM CHI 2023-2026.
  • Reviewr of IEEE PacificVis 2026.
  • Reviewer of ACM UIST 2025.
  • Reviewer of ACM CSCW 2024, 2025.
  • PC Member of Special Track on Cultural Heritage of VINCI 2025.
  • Reviewer of ICHEC (Chinese CHI) 2024, 2025.
  • Reviewer of ChinaVis 2024.

🏫 Teaching Experiences

  • Fall 2025: TA for CS5489 Machine Learning: Algorithm & Applications (CityU)
  • Spring 2023: TA for CS2303 Data Structures for Media (CityU)
  • Fall 2022: TA for JC2066 IT Professionals: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (CityU)