Qiaomu Shen

Qiaomu Shen

Data Visualization
System Observability
Human-Machine Collaboration
Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis
LLM Inference Acceleration

I am an assistant professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai. My major research interests include Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. My research goal is to develop innovative Information Visualization techniques and Interactive Analytics systems, aimed at enhancing the exploration and analysis of big data. I have leveraged my expertise across various domains, including System Observability, Urban Informatics, Interpretable Machine Learning, Augmented Analytics, and LLM Inference Acceleration.

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Huamin Qu. Prior to that, I earned my Master's and Bachelor's degrees at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University in June 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Min Zhu.

Selected Publications (All Publications)
CapeNext: Rethinking and Refining Dynamic Support Information for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation.
Yu Zhu, Dan Zeng, Shuiwang Li, Qijun Zhao, Qiaomu Shen, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.

QOVIS: Understanding and Diagnosing Query Optimizer via a Visualization-Assisted Approach.
Zhengxin You, Qiaomu Shen, Man Lung Yiu, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 18(6): 1677–1690, 2025.

VQLens: A Demonstration of Vector Query Execution Analysis.
Yansha Jia, Zhengxin You, Yujie Wang, Qiaomu Shen, Bo Tang.
Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD Companion), 267–270, 2025.

CheetahTraj: Efficient Visualization for Large Trajectory Dataset with Quality Guarantee
Qiaomu Shen, Chaozu Zhang, Xiao Yan, Chuan Yang, Dan Zeng, Wei Zeng, Bo Tang
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.
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MetroBUX: A Topology-based Visual Analytics for Bus Operational Uncertainty EXploration
Shishi Xiao, Qing Shi, Lingdan Shao, Bo Du, Yang Wang, Qiaomu Shen, Wei Zeng,
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2024.
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QEVIS: Multi-grained Visualization of Distributed Query Execution.
Qiaomu Shen, Zhengxin You, Xiao Yan, Chaozu Zhang, Ke Xu, Dan Zeng, Jianbin Qin, Bo Tang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023.
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Data-Scarce Animal Face Alignment via Bi-Directional Cross-Species Knowledge Transfer.
Dan Zeng, Shanchuan Hong, Shuiwang Li, Qiaomu Shen#, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of the 31th ACM international conference on multimedia (MM), 2023.
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Route-aware edge bundling for visualizing origin-destination trails in urban traffic.
Wei Zeng, Qiaomu Shen#, Yuzhe Jiang, Alexandru Telea.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis 2019), 2019.
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StreetVizor: Visual exploration of human-scale urban forms based on street views.
Qiaomu Shen, Wei Zeng, Yu Ye, Stefan Müller Arisona, Simon Schubiger, Remo Burkhard, Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2017.
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Nameclarifier: A visual analytics system for author name disambiguation.
Qiaomu Shen, Tongshuang Wu, Haiyan Yang, Yanhong Wu, Huamin Qu, Weiwei Cui.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2016.
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News


  • [Jun. 2026] CapeNext was published at AAAI 2026.
  • [Jun. 2025] Two papers were published at SIGMOD Companion 2025.
  • [Apr. 2025] One paper was published at CHI EA 2025.
  • [Feb. 2025] QOVIS was published in PVLDB.
  • [Mar. 2024] One paper was accepted by TKDE.
Experience
  • 2021 - Present
    Assistant Professor

    Visualization, Urban Informatics, System Observability

  • 2020 - 2021
    Senior Developer - Huawei, Noah's Ark Lab

    Visual Analytics, Discrete Event Simulation

  • 2019
    Visiting Scholar - Delft University of Technology

    Advisor: Anna Vilanova.

  • 2015 - 2016
    Research Assistant - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - VISLAB
  • 2016 - 2020
    Ph.D. - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CSE) - VISLab

    Visual Analytics, Urban Informatics, Graph Visualization

    Advisor: Huamin Qu.

  • 2012 - 2015
    Master - Sichuan University (CS)- Computer Vision Lab

    Visual Analytics, Graph Visualization

    Advisor: Min Zhu.

  • 2008 - 2012
    Bachelor - Sichuan University (CS)