publications

Asterisk * denotes equal contribution. Publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

2026

  1. Preprint
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    SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents
    Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, and Shusen Liu
    2026
    arXiv Code Website HF
  2. Preprint
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    Toward AI VIS Co-Scientists: A General and End-to-End Agent Harness for Solving Complex Data Visualization Tasks
    Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer, and Shusen Liu
    2026
    arXiv Video
  3. Preprint
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    SVLAT: Scientific Visualization Literacy Assessment Test
    Patrick Phuoc Do, Kaiyuan Tang, Kuangshi Ai, and Chaoli Wang
    2026
    arXiv Supp
  4. Preprint
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    SciVisAgentSkills: Design and Evaluation of Agent Skills for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization
    Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Shusen Liu, and Chaoli Wang
    2026
    arXiv Code
  5. Preprint
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    Exploring Interaction Paradigms for LLM Agents in Scientific Visualization
    Jackson Vonderhorst, Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Shusen Liu, and Chaoli Wang
    2026
    arXiv
  6. ISVC
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    Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Built Environment and Housing Attribute Assessment from Street-View Imagery
    Siyuan Yao, Siavash Ghorbany, Kuangshi Ai, Arnav Cherukuthota, Meghan Forstchen, Alexis Korotasz, Matthew Sisk, Ming Hu, and Chaoli Wang
    In Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing, 2026
    arXiv

2025

  1. IEEE VIS
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    🏆 Best Paper VIS 2025 NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, and Chaoli Wang
    In Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS), 2025
    arXiv Video Blog Code Slides Website
  2. IEEE VIS
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    TexGS-VolVis: Expressive Scene Editing for Volume Visualization via Textured Gaussian Splatting
    Kaiyuan Tang, Kuangshi Ai, Jun Han, and Chaoli Wang
    In Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS), 2025
    arXiv
  3. VIS x GenAI Oral
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    An Evaluation-Centric Paradigm for Scientific Visualization Agents
    Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Chaoli Wang, and Shusen Liu
    In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (IEEE VIS), 2025
    arXiv Slides
  4. 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 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2025
    arXiv Code
  5. Preprint
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    KEO: Knowledge Extraction on OMIn via Knowledge Graphs and RAG for Safety-Critical Aviation Maintenance
    Kuangshi Ai*, Jonathan A. Karr Jr*, Meng Jiang, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Chaoli Wang
    2025
    arXiv Code