Kuangshi (Leo) Ai

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

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247 Fitzpatrick Hall

Notre Dame, IN 46556

Hi there👋! I’m Kuangshi Ai, a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, where I work with Prof. Chaoli Wang in the ND-VIS Lab. I received my bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Fudan University in July 2024. During undergrad, I spent a semester as an exchange student at the University of Sydney and conducted summer research with Prof. Toby Li at Notre Dame.

My research interests lie at the intersection of scientific visualization, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing. Currently, I focus on leveraging large language models (LLMs) to make the complex, expert-oriented process of scientific visualization more intuitive and accessible to broader audiences. I’m also exploring the integration of LLMs with 3D/4D data, including general vision-language models for volumetric and spatial understanding.

If you’re interested in my work or would like to collaborate, feel free to reach out at kai[at]nd[dot]edu.

news

May 16, 2025 Leveraging Variation Theory in Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Optimized Active Learning was accepted by ACL 2025 findings!
Aug 15, 2024 Excited to start my Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame.
Jul 01, 2024 Graduated from Fudan University as an Outstanding Graduate.

selected publications

  1. ACL Findings
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    Leveraging Variation Theory in Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Optimized Active Learning
    Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Kuangshi Ai, Zheng Zhang, Elena L. Glassman, and Toby Jia-Jun Li
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025