Chen Chen

About Me

I am a Senior Data Research Engineer at XMotors USA, Inc. I obtained my PhD degree from University of Maryland, College Park. My research lies at the intersection of visualization, data science, and artificial intelligence. I develop mixed-initiative systems powered by AI models to support data pipelines.

News

• [July 2025] Our SVG corpus, VisAnatomy, has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2025! We demonstrate how a diverse collection of SVG charts enhances the evaluation of modern LLMs, reveals opportunities for graph learning on charts, validates prior work on chart retargeting, and supports the development of chart accessibility.
• [Feb. 2025] I have joined Dolby Laboratories as a senior data visual research scientist!
• [Nov. 2024] I have successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation on my 30th birthday!
• [Sep. 2024] Our interactive narrative article on empirical neural network robustness has been accepted to 7th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability at IEEE VIS 2024!
• [July 2024] One paper presenting the computational representation of data visualization scenes, Manipulable Semantic Components, has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2024 and selected for the Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)!
• [May 2024] I have successfully advanced to candidacy, on the same day as my wedding anniversary!
• [March 2024] Our workshop paper on CLIP’s ability of analyzing fake images has been accepted to Generative AI and HCI at CHI’24! A full-paper version presenting the VA system can be seen here.
• [July 2023] Our paper on deconstructing and reusing SVG chart layouts has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2023!
• [June 2023] Our short paper on interactive notebooks for low-code visual exploratory data analysis has been accepted to VL/HCC 2023!
• [May 2023] Our State-of-the-Art (STAR) analysis on visualization corpora for automated chart analysis has been accepted to EuroVis 2023!
• [July 2021] Mascot.js (previously named Atlas), our graphics-centric visualizaiton grammar, has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2021!

Experiences

XMotors USA, Inc.

Senior Data Research Engineer

Apr. 2026 - Present

Dolby Laboratories

Senior Research Scientist

Feb. 2025 - Mar. 2026

Epsilon Data Management LLC

Visualization Researcher Intern

Summer 2023

Adobe Research

Research Scientist Intern

Summer 2022

Selected Publications

Services

Conference Reviewers

• IEEE VIS: Visualization & Visual Analytics, 2023, 2024, 2025
• The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
• Eurographics, 2025
• IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2024, 2025

Journal Reviewers

• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
• Visual Informatics

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