Zipeng Liu

Zipeng Liu is an Assistant Professor at the College of Software, Beihang University (China). His research focuses on information visualization, human-computer interaction, and data analysis, emphasizing design of communication-focused visualizations and their integration with computational methods. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) and a BSc from Peking University (PKU, China). Prior roles include research at Adobe Research and teaching at UBC.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science (UBC, 2015-2021), BSc in Computer Science (PKU, 2011-2015)

Research interests include developing new metrics for graph readability (e.g., Sprawlter metric), visualizing GNN embeddings, and segmenting user interaction logs in image editing. His work bridges theoretical visualization principles with practical applications in data-driven problem-solving.

Selected awards include Best Paper Honorable Mention at PacificVis 2020. He has taught courses on information visualization and served as a teaching assistant for computer systems and bioinformatics courses at UBC.