Danqing Shi ｜ Researcher

This is Dr. Danqing Shi 史丹青
originally from Shanghai
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I am a researcher at the University of Cambridge and Lund University. I build computational behavior models and intelligent interactive systems for human-AI interaction.

Media Highlights

✨ Long-term funding (2026-2031) from Swedish Research Council to study how people interact with computers, AI, and future user interfaces

👁️ AI that mirrors how humans behave can drive better designs

🦾 Advances in AI models simulating human behavior

🤖 MIT Technology Review 中文: Researchers propose a novel interactive method that improves human feedback for AI alignment

👩‍💻 Better AI models by incorporating human feedback into training

Selected Publications

A Workflow for Building Computationally Rational Models of Human Behavior

Suyog Chandramouli, Danqing Shi, Aini Putkonen, Sebastiaan De Peuter, Shanshan Zhang, Jussi Jokinen, Andrew Howes, Antti Oulasvirta

Computational Brain & Behavior

CRTypist: Simulating Touchscreen Typing Behavior via Computational Rationality

Danqing Shi, Yujun Zhu, Jussi P.P. Jokinen, Aditya Acharya, Aini Putkonen, Shumin Zhai, Antti Oulasvirta

CHI 2024 🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Google Research at CHI

Chartist: Task-driven Eye Movement Control for Chart Reading

Danqing Shi, Yao Wang, Yunpeng Bai, Andreas Bulling, Antti Oulasvirta

CHI 2025

Typoist: Simulating Human Errors

Danqing Shi, Yujun Zhu, FE Fernandes Jr., Shumin Zhai, Antti Oulasvirta

CHI 2025 🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Google Research at CHI

DxHF: Providing High-Quality Human Feedback for LLM Alignment

Danqing Shi, Furui Cheng, Tino Weinkauf, Antti Oulasvirta, Menna El-Assady

UIST 2025

Interactive Groupwise Comparison for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Jan Kompatscher*, Danqing Shi, Giovanna Varni, Tino Weinkauf, Antti Oulasvirta (*2024 AScI summer intern and thesis student)

Computer Graphics Forum

Interactive Reward Tuning: Interactive Visualization for Preference Elicitation

Danqing Shi, Shibei Zhu, Tino Weinkauf, Antti Oulasvirta

IROS 2024

More publications on Google Scholar

I build visualization software ⚙️

Calliope

A data visualization software [sdq.github.io/calliope] that employs advanced AI techniques to automatically analyze data and represent data insights in the form of narrative visualization. In 2021, Calliope joined Greenplum (VMware Software) as a plugin feature [link].

Narrative Chart

An open-source visualization library for authoring charts that facilitate data storytelling with a high-level, action-oriented declarative grammar [narchart.github.io].

Curriculum Vitae个人简历

Short Bio简介

Dr. Danqing Shi is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. His research interests include human-AI interaction, human behavior modeling, human-computer interaction, and visualization. Before joining Cambridge, he received his PhD from Tongji University and worked as a postdoc researcher at Finnish Center for AI, and a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich. More infomation can be found at https://sdq.github.io

史丹青博士现为剑桥大学工程系机器学习组副研究员, 他即将加入瑞典隆德大学任终身轨助理教授。他的研究方向包括人机交互、行为建模、可视化与智能用户界面。他于同济大学获得工学博士学位, 任芬兰人工智能中心博士后研究员, 苏黎世联邦理工访问学者。他的研究成果曾多次获得业内顶级国际会议ACM CHI等最佳论文荣誉提名奖。更多信息请访问 https://sdq.github.io