Xinyu Shi

Xinyu Shi

石新羽 | CS PhD Student

xinyu.shi@uwaterloo.ca

Hi, I am Xinyu Shi, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at University of Waterloo in Canada. I am lucky to be advised by Prof. Jian Zhao in WatVis Research Group, affiliated with the WaterlooHCI Lab.

My research focuses on Human-AI Interaction (HCI), particularly, Design Intelligence and AI-Powered Creativity Support Tools. The goal of my research is to design, develop, and evaluate interactive systems to facilitate graphic design authoring and enhance human creativity.

Outside of research, I am keen on exploring new possibilities in my life. I love skiing, playing badminton, rock climbing (only belay, no bouldering), and travelling. I have two cats, they are so sweet!

Interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Design Intelligence
  • Creativity Support Tool
  • Human-AI Co-Creation
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science 2021 - Present

    University of Waterloo, Canada

  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering 2016 - 2020

    Xiamen University, China

News
  • 2024/05: I will be joining Adobe Research at San Jose as Research Intern this summer.
  • 2024/04: Super excited that Piet won Best Paper Award at CHI24!
  • 2024/01: Two papers conditionally accepted by CHI'24.
  • 2023/11: Passed my Comprehensive Exam II, I am a Ph.D. candidate now!
  • 2023/05: Interning at Microsoft Research Asia with Dr. Yun Wang.
  • 2023/04: Attentding CHI 2023 to present De-Stijl at Hamburg, Germany!
  • 2022/06: FeMaSR is accepted by ACM MM'22 and selected as Oral Presentation.
  • 2022/05: Transferred from M.Math to Ph.D. program.
  • 2021/09: Fortunate to receive the 2021 Vector Scholarship from Vector Institute.
  • 2021/09: Started my journey at University of Waterloo!

Publications

  • CHI 2024

    Exploring Interactive Color Palettes for Abstraction-Driven Exploratory Image Colorization

    In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
    PDF Video 30s Preview DOI

  • CHI 2023

    De-Stijl: Facilitating Graphics Design with Interactive 2D Color Palette Recommendation

    In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
    PDF Code Video 30s Preview Dataset (3.4G) DOI

  • MM 2022  ORAL PRESENTATION (TOP 5%)

    Real-World Blind Super-Resolution via Feature Matching with Implicit High-Resolution Priors

    In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
    PDF Code DOI

  • UbiComp 2021 / IMWUT 2020

    Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality

    In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
    PDF Video DOI

  • ISMAR 2019

    Accurate and Fast Classification of Foot Gestures for Virtual Locomotion

    In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.
    PDF Video DOI

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