Hi! I'm Zikun Deng(邓紫址)
Associate Professor @ South China University of TechnologyVisual Analytics / Urban Computing / Human-Computer Interaction / AI

I'm a Associate Professor at School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. degree from the School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University in 2018, and Ph.D. degree from the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University in 2023, supervised by Prof. Yingcai Wu in Interactive Data Group.

Research Highlights. I have published over 20 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE TVCG, IEEE ITS, CVMJ, IJCAI, AAAI, and ACM CHI. My research focuses on Visual Analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Human-Computer Interaction, and their applications in Smart City, Digital Twins, and Industry 4.0.

πŸ™Œ I am actively seeking motivated students to work on Visual Analytics (VA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

EXPERIENCE

2023.08-PresentSouth China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Associate Professor, School of Software Engineering
2019.04-2021.04Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China
Algorithm Engineer, with Prof. Yingcai Wu and Prof. Wei Chen
2018.04-2018.09Urban Computing Lab, JDT, Beijing, China
Algorithm Engineer & Research Intern, with Prof. Yu Zheng
2018.01-2018.04Zhejiang Univeristy, Hangzhou, China
Undergraduate Research Intern, with Prof. Yingcai Wu

EDUCATION

2018.9-2023.6Ph.D. in Computer Science
Zhejiang Univeristy
Advisor: Yingcai Wu
Thesis: Visual Propagation Analytics of Urban Spatiotemporal Event
Committee: Xiaoru Yuan, Wei Chen, Ying Zhao, Siming Chen, Xiao Xie
2014.8-2018.6B.Eng in Transportation Engineering
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Advisor: Renxin Zhong
News
Pinned πŸ“ŒI am actively seeking motivated students to join the group! See working with me for more information.
2026.01Our paper "Open-ended Structured Question Assessment with Human-LLM Collaboration" got accepted by CHI 2026. Congratulations to Fengyan and all the co-authors! πŸŽ‰
2026.01Our paper "DensityBars: A Space-Efficient Visualization for Event Temporal Distribution" got accepted by CHI 2026. Congratulations to Mingwei and all the co-authors! πŸŽ‰
2026.01I will be honored to serve as a full paper program committee memberπŸ‘©β€βš–οΈ for IEEE VIS 2026.
2026.01Our paper "DrainScope: Visual Analytics of Urban Drainage System" got accepted by IEEE TVCG. Congratulations to Mingwei and all the co-authors! πŸŽ‰
2026.01Our paper "Towards Understanding Time-Varying Spatial 3D Data Analysis with Animation and Small Multiples in Virtual Reality and Desktop" got accepted by IEEE VR. Congratulations to all the co-authors! πŸŽ‰
Research Highlights(Full list)
Visual Analytics for Decision Making

TraSculptor: Visual Analytics for Enhanced Decision-Making in Road Traffic Planning

Zikun Deng, Yuanbang Liu, Mingrui Zhu, Da Xiang, Haiyue Yu, Zicheng Su, Qing-Long Lu, Tobias Schreck, Yi Cai

IEEE TVCGIEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 31(10): 6899-6914 (2025)

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DrainScope: Visual Analytics of Urban Drainage System

Mingwei Lin, Zikun Deng*, Qin Huang, Yiyi Ma, Lin-Ping Yuan, Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, Yi Cai

IEEE TVCGIEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. (2026)

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StressDiffVis: Visual Analytics for Multi-Model Stress Comparison

Jiabao Huang, Zikun Deng*, Hanlin Song, Xiang Chen, Shaowu Gao, Yi Cai

IEEE TVCGIEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 32(1): 1043-1053 (2026)

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Large Scale Spatiotemporal Data Visualization

Visualizing Large-Scale Spatial Time Series with GeoChron

Zikun Deng, Shifu Chen, Tobias Schreck, Dazhen Deng, Tan Tang, Mingliang Xu, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu

IEEE TVCGIEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 30(1): 1194-1204 (2024)

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Volume-Based Space-Time Cube for Large-Scale Continuous Spatial Time Series

Zikun Deng, Jiabao Huang, Chenxi Ruan, Jialing Li, Shaowu Gao, Yi Cai,

IEEE TVCGIEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 31(10): 7019-7033 (2025)

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