My name is Huanchen Wang. I am a PhD 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. Zhicong Lu (from George Mason University, previously at CityUHK), Prof. Yuxin Ma (from Southern University of Science and Technology), 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

• 2025.07: 🎉🎉 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!

📝 Publications

• 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 ‘25), 2026. (to appear)

• RAGTrace: Understanding and Refining Retrieval-Generation Dynamics in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  Sizhe Chen*, Jiaping Li*, Huanchen Wang, Yuxin Ma

  (* = equal contribution)

  Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘25), 2025. (to appear)

• Polymind: Parallel Visual Diagramming with Large Language Models to Support Prewriting Through Microtasks

  Qian Wan, Jiannan Li, Huanchen Wang, Zhicong Lu

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ‘25), 2025. (to appear)

  [pdf]

• 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 ‘25), 2025.

  [presentation] [demo] [pdf]

• DanModCap: Designing a Danmaku Moderation Tool for Video-Sharing Platforms that Leverages Impact Captions

  Siying Hu, Huanchen Wang, Yu Zhang, Piaohong Wang, Zhicong Lu

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2):1-27 (CSCW ‘25), 2025.

  [pdf]

• 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 ‘24), 2024.

  [pdf]

• Understanding Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement with Science Knowledge Videos on Bilibili

  Yu Zhang, Changyang He, Huanchen Wang, Zhicong Lu

  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23), 2023.

  [presentation] [pdf]

• A Geomagnetic Sensor Dataset for Traffic Flow Prediction

  Huanchen Wang*, Quanjun Chen*, Zheng Dong, Xuan Song, Hao Tian, Donglong Yang, Manxia Liu

  (* = equal contribution)

  IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data ‘22), 2022.

  [pdf]

• Learning Latent Road Correlations from Trajectories

  Zheng Dong, Quanjun Chen, Renghe Jiang, Huanchen Wang, Xuan Song, Hao Tian

  IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data ‘22), 2022.

  [pdf]

🎖 Honors and Awards

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

📖 Educations

• 2022.09 - now, 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 UIST 2025.
• Reviewer of CHCHI 2024.
• Reviewer of ACM CSCW 2024, 2025.
• Reviewer of ChinaVis 2024.
• Reviewer of ACM CHI PLAY 2024.
• Reviewer of ACM CHI 2023, 2024, 2025.

🏫 Teaching Experiences

• Spring 2023: TA for CS2303 Data Structures for Media (CityU)
• Fall 2022: TA for JC2066 IT Professionals: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (CityU)