My name is Huanchen Wang (王焕辰). I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and supervised by Prof. Zhichao Lu, Prof. Zhicong Lu, and Prof. Yuxin Ma.
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 Human-AI Collaboration and Creativity Supporting, 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. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. I am currently seeking a postdoctoral position.
🔥 News
- 2026.04: Attending to ACM CHI 2026 (Barcelona, Spain)!
- 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!
📝 Publications

SiMUSation: An Interactive Visitor Experience Simulation Framework to Support Museum Exhibition Design
Huanchen Wang, Qiuming Chen, Zhonghao Ji, Ruqi Sun, Zhichao Lu, Yuxin Ma
Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2026), 2026, to appear.

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, 32(1):615-625 (VIS 2025), 2026.
[IEEE Xplore] | [arxiv] | [demo]

RAGTrace: Understanding and Refining Retrieval-Generation Dynamics in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Sizhe Cheng*, Jiaping Li*, Huanchen Wang, Yuxin Ma
(* = equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025), 2025.
[ACM Digital Library] | [arxiv] | [demo]

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, 9(7):1-29 (CSCW 2025), 2025.
[ACM Digital Library] | [arxiv]

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 2025), 2025.
[ACM Digital Library] | [arxiv]

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]

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.

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 2023), 2023.
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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]
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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 - 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
- Spring 2026: TA for CS5491 Artificial Intelligence (CityU)
- 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)