Education

Research Interests

• Visualization and visual analytics for artificial intelligence systems.
• Human-AI interaction, LLM reasoning analysis, and human-AI alignment.
• Interactive systems for scientific discovery, model diagnosis, and data exploration.

Research Experience

Publications

1. Shiwei Chen, Niruthikka Sritharan, Xiaolin Wen, Chenxi Zhang, Xingbo Wang, and Yong Wang. "When the Chain Breaks: Interactive Diagnosis of LLM Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Errors." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2026), 2026. arXiv
2. Kavinda Athapaththu, Shiwei Chen, Yuan Fang, Sanchali Mitra, Yee Sin Ang, and Yong Wang. "SemiConLens: Visual Analytics for 2D Semiconductor Discovery." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2026), 2026. arXiv
3. Yuanzhi Zeng, Shuxian Gu, Shiwei Chen, Yong Wang, and Haipeng Zeng. "TMSeer: Visual Analysis of City-Level Travel Modes Using Cellular Signaling Data." Visual Informatics, 2026. DOI
4. Yuanzhi Zeng, Shiwei Chen, Yutian Zhang, Dong Sun, Yong Wang, and Haipeng Zeng. "HuGe: Towards Human-Controllable Image Generation in Autonomous Driving." Visual Informatics, 2025. Paper
5. Erdong Zhang, Zilin Pan, Zequan Yao, Tiejun Dong, Guanxing Chen, Tingwen Deng, Shiwei Chen, and Calvin Yu-Chian Chen. "Pre-Trained Language Models for Protein and Molecular Design." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025. Paper

Honors

Skills

Programming

Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Visualization

D3.js, Vue.js, interactive visual analytics system design

Data & ML

PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy, LLM APIs, data preprocessing, model training

Research

Literature review, user study support, prototype design, academic writing