Nan Cao
nan.cao(at)gmail.com, Room is218A, 281 Fuxin Road, Shanghai, China
Nan Cao (曹楠) is the vice dean of Tongji College of Design and Innovation (Tongji D&I) and a professor at Tongji School of Software Engineering. He is the founding director of AI & Data design program and intelligent big data visualization lab at Tongji University. Before joining Tongji, Nan Cao was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in USA. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are AI + (data visualization, information design, visual communication design, and human-computer interaction). He has published over 100 research papers in these fields.
Recent Publications | Google Scholar | DBLP
Awards:
- 2024, Top 2% Scientists, Stanford/Elsevier
- 2024, Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE PacificVis
- 2024, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Visualization, AI Open Index
- 2023, Best Paper Award, IEEE VIS
- 2023, Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE VIS
- 2023, Best Poster Honorable Mention, IEEE VIS
- 2023, Top 2% Scientists, Stanford/Elsevier
- 2023, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Visualization, AI Open Index
- 2022, 2 Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards, IEEE VIS
- 2022, Intelligent Industrial Designer Top 20, Forbes China
- 2022, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Visualization, AI Open Index
- 2020, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Visualization, AI Open Index
- 2015, Outstanding Technique Achievement Award, IBM
- 2014, Honorable Mention Award, IEEE VAST
- 2005, Most Valuable Professional, Microsoft
Services:
- Computer Science Review (IF:12.9, JCR Q1), Editorial Board
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IF: 7.2, JCR Q1), Associate Editor
- ACM CHI 2024, Associate Chair
- IEEE VIS 2023, Poster Chair
- IEEE PacificVis 2018, 2019, Paper Chair
- ChinaVis 2017, 2018, Paper Chair
Students:
- Yi He, PhD, 2022 - Now, LLM for Visual Narrative
- Chuer Chen, PhD, 2022 - Now, Decision Models for Visual Design
- Jie Bao, PhD, 2021 - Now, Visual Analysis
- Chao Yuan, PhD, 2021 - Now, Intelligent Design
- Xueyang Wang, PhD, 2021 - Now, Visual Communication Design
- Zui Chen, PhD, 2019 - Now, Visual Analysis, On leave for a startup company
- Yi Guo, PhD, 2022 - Now, Augmented Visual Analysis, Researcher at Alibaba Ltd.
- Xingyu Lan, PhD, 2018 - 2022, Visual Communication Design, Asistant Professor at Fudan University
- Danqing Shi, PhD, 2017 - 2022, Augmented Visual Analysis, Postdoc Researcher at Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
- Zhuochen Jin, PhD, 2016 - 2020, Visual Analysis on Healthcare, Researcher at Huawei Ltd.
- Shunan Guo, PhD, 2016 - 2019, Viusla Analysis on Healthcare, Researcher at Adobe Research