Short Bio
Danqing Shi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, and worked as a postdoc at the Finnish Center for AI, Aalto University. His research focuses on human-computer interaction and visualization. His work received several awards, including Best Paper Honorable Mentions at ACM CHI 2025, ACM CHI 2024, and IEEE PacificVis 2024.
Research Positions
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Behavior Lab, FCAI & Aalto University, Helsinki
Education
Ph.D. and M.Sc., Tongji University, Shanghai
B.Eng, East China Normal University, Shanghai
Research Visits
Academic Guest, IVIA Lab, ETH Zürich, Zürich (3 months)
Visiting Researcher, Collaborative AI Lab, Stuttgart (3 months)
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing (6 months)
Research Intern, Tencent Jarvis Research Center (6 months)
Honors & Awards
⭐ 2025 DAAD AInet Fellow on Explainable AI
⭐ 2025 Keynote Speaker at Mind & Motion at UIST 2025
🏅 2025 ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention (first author)
🏅 2024 ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention (first author)
🏅 2024 IEEE PacificVis Best Paper Honorable Mention (first author)
⭐ 2024-2025 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews × 6
🏅 2023 IEEE VIS Best Poster Honorable Mention (co-author)
🎓 2022 Shanghai Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate
🎗️ 2021 Award of Excellence @ Microsoft Research Asia "Stars of Tomorrow"
🏅 2021 ChinaVis Best Poster Honorable Mention (second author, supervisor as first author)
🏅 2021 CAD/Graphics Best Poster (first author)
Services
Associate Chair @ ACM CHI 2026
Senior Program Committee @ ACM IUI 2026
Program Committee @ IEEE VIS 2025
Session Chair @ ACM CHI 2025 - Decision Making and Analysis
Program Committee @ ACM IUI 2025
Program Committee @ ACM ETRA 2025 ETVIS
Co-organizer @ IEEE VIS 2024 Workshop on Data Storytelling in an Era of Generative AI
Program Committee @ ACM CHI 2024 LBW
Program Committee @ ChinaVis 2023-2025
Teaching
2025 Co-instructor - Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (ELEC-E7871)
2025 Co-organizor - AI4GOOD: Human-Centered AI for Social Good @ ETH Zürich
2024 Guest Lecturer - Computational Design and Interaction (ELEC-E7852) @ Aalto University
2024 Guest Lecturer - Intelligent Communication @ Fudan University
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant - Data Visualization @ Tongji University
Supervisions and thesis advisors
2024-2025 Xuemei Ge, Master student from Aalto University
2024-2025 Chauhan Mitul Mukesh, Master student from University of Stuttgart
2024-2025 Susan Rämä, Master student from Aalto University
2023-2024 Jan Kompatscher, Master student from University of Trento
2023-2024 Yujun Zhu, Master student from Aalto University
2023 Carlo Zanotto, Master student from Aalto University