About Me

I am a lead researcher in the Internet Graphics Group at Microsoft Research Asia. I received a B.S. and M.S. in Computational Mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics from Tsinghua University. Before I joined MSRA, I worked as a research staff member and research manager at IBM China Research Lab, where I managed the departments of Smart Visual Analytics and User Experience.

Email: shliu at microsoft.com (shliu@microsoft.com)

Open Position - Visualization Researchers and Interns

The Team: Weiwei Cui; Yingcai Wu

Research

I am extremely interested in leveraging human intelligence, especially visual perceptional systems to facilitate decision making from huge amounts of data. My research helps users see, communicate, and process information in intuitive and novel ways. My research interests include interactive, visual text analytics and interactive, visual social network analysis.

Interactive, visual text analytics: research and develop interactive visual metaphors and tools to transform text collections into a visual representation that helps reveal thematic patterns and locate interesting information.
Interactive, visual social network analysis: research and develop interactive visual metaphors and tools to aid in fast social network exploration and understanding.

Professional Activities

Program Committee: KDD 2013, PAKDD 2013
Post Co-chair: PacificVis 2013
Workshop Co-chair: IEEE VisWeek 2012 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics
Guest Editor: Tsinghua Science and Technology
Guest Editor: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Program Co-chair: Visual Information Communication - International Symposium 2012
Workshop Co-chair: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
Workshop Co-chair: Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, 2010
Program Committee: PacificVis 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Program Committee: ACM IUI 2009, 2011
Program Committee: VISAPP 2011, 2012
Program Committee: VINCI'11
Program Committee: ACM Multimedia 2009
Program Committee: SDM 2008

Selected Publications

2013
	Mining Evolutionary Multi-Branch Trees from Text Streams. Xiting Wang, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu*, Baining Guo. KDD 2013 (accepted)
	A Hierarchical Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews. Suin Kim, Jianwen Zhang, Zheng Chen, Alice Oh, Shixia Liu AAAI 2013 (accepted)
	Optimizing temporal topic segmentation for intelligent text visualization. Shimei Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, Yangqiu Song, Weihong Qian, Fei Wang, Shixia Liu. IUI 2013: 339-350.
	ViSizer - A Visualization Resizing Framework. Yingcai Wu, Xiaotong Liu, Shixia Liu*, Kwan-Liu Ma. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 19(2): 278-290 (2013)
	Constrained Text Co-clustering with Supervised and Unsupervised Constraints Y. Song, S.i Pan, S. Liu*, F. Wei, M. X. Zhou, W. Qian. IEEE TKDE. 25(6): 1227-1239 (2013)
2012
	RankExplorer: Visualization of Ranking Changes in Large Time Series Data Conglei Shi, Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Panpan Xu, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'12).
	Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Xiaohua Sun, David Lazer, Shixia Liu, Huamin Qu IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'12).
	Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Keywords Xueqing Liu, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu, Haixun Wang. KDD 2012 (accepted).
	Breaking News on Twitter. Mengdie Hu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Yingcai Wu, John Stasko, Kwan-Liu Ma. CHI 2012 (accepted). Some of the public reports on this work: MSNBC; Washington Times; ReadWriteWeb; LA Times; Poynter; GT news
	TIARA: Interactive, Topic-based Visual Text Summarization and Analysis. Shixia Liu, Michelle X. Zhou, Shimei Pan, Yangqiu Song, Weihong Qian, Weijia Cai, Xiaoxiao Lian. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 3(2): 25, 2012
	ImageHive: Interactive Content-Aware Image Summarization Li Tan, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu, Lexing Xie. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. 32(1): 46-55, 2012.
	Real-time Visualization of Streaming Text with Force-Based Dynamic System Jamal Alsakran, Yang Chen, Dongning Luo, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Wenwen Dou, Shixia Liu. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. 32(1): 34-45, 2012.
2011
	TextFlow: Towards Better Understanding of Evolving Topics in Text Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Li Tan, Conglei Shi, Yangqiu Song, Zekai Gao, Xin Tong, Huamin Qu. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'11). [Paper][Video]
	Tracking and Connecting Topics via Incremental Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes Zekai Gao, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu, Haixun Wang, Weiwei Cui, Hao Wei, and Yang Chen. ICDM 2011 (Accepted).
	Semantic-Preserving Word Clouds by Seam Carving Yingcai Wu, Thomas Provan, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, and Kwan-Liu Ma. EuroVis 2011. (Accepted)
2010
	Context-Preserving, Dynamic Word Cloud Visualization Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle Zhou, Huamin Qu. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 42 - 53.
	OpinionSeer: Interactive Visualization of Hotel Customer Feedback Yingcai Wu, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Norman Au, Weiwei Cui, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'10) [Paper]
	FacetAtlas: Multifacet Visualization for Rich Text Corpora Nan Cao, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz, Shixia Liu and Huamin Qu IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'10) [Paper]
	TIARA: A Visual Exploratory Text Analytic System Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Yangqiu Song, Shimie Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, Weihong Qian, Lei Shi, Li Tan, Qiang Zhang. KDD 2010 [Paper]
	Evolutionary Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for Multiple Correlated Time-varying Corpora Jianwen Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Changshui Zhang, Shixia Liu. KDD 2010 [Paper]
	Constrained Co-clustering for Textual Documents Yangqiu Song, Shimei Pan, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, Weihong Qian. AAAI 2010. [Paper]
	ContexTour: Contextual Contour Analysis on Dynamic Multi-relational Clustering Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu. SDM 2010: 418-429 [Paper]
	Context preserving dynamic word cloud visualization Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, Huamin Qu. PacificVis 2010: 121-128 [Paper]
	Understanding Text Corpora with Multiple Facets Lei Shi, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Li Tan, Xiaoxiao Lian and Michelle Zhou. VAST 2010 [Paper]
	iRANK: A Rank-Learn-Combine Framework for Unsupervised Ensemble Ranking. Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Shixia Liu. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010 [Paper]
2009
	Interactive, Topic-based Visual Text Summarization and Analysis Shixia Liu, Michelle X. Zhou, Shimei Pan, Weihong Qian, Weijia Cai, Xiaoxiao Lian. CIKM 2009, 543-552, 2009. (Candidate of the best paper award) [paper][Video]
	HiMap: Adaptive visualization of large-scale online social networks Lei Shi, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian, Li Tan, Guodong Wang, Jimeng Sun, Ching-Yung Lin. PacificVis 2009: 41-48
	MultiVis: Content-Based Social Network Exploration through Multi-way Visual Analysis. Jimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian. SDM, 1063-1074, 2009.
2008-2000
	FanLens: A Visual Toolkit for Dynamically Exploring the Distribution of Hierarchical Attributes Xinghua Lou, Shixia Liu, Tianshu Wang. PacificVis 2008: 151-158
	Interactive Visual Analysis of the NSF Funding Information Shixia Liu, Nan Cao, Hao Lv. PacificVis, 183-190, 2008.
	Mining Naturally Smooth Evolution of Clusters from Dynamic Data Yi Wang, Shi-Xia Liu, Jianhua Feng, Lizhu Zhou. SDM 2007
	An Integrated System for Building Enterprise Taxonomies Li Zhang, Tao Li, Shixia Liu, Yue Pan. Information Retrieval, 10(4-5): 365-391, 2007.
	Reconstruction of curved solids from engineering drawings Shi-Xia Liu, Shi-Min Hu, Yu-Jian Chen, Jia-Guang Sun. Computer-Aided Design 33(14): 1059-1072 (2001)
	A Matrix-Based Approach to Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Three Orthographic Views Shi-Xia Liu, Shi-Min Hu, Jia-Guang Sun, Chiew-Lan Tai. Pacific Graphics 2000: 254-261