Xin Qian

Ph.D. Student, Information Studies University of Maryland

2105 Hornbake Building South. College Park, MD, 20740

Email: xinq [at] umd [dot] edu
Github: xeniaqian94

Photo credit: Chen Zhao (Singapore, 2019)

Hi! My name is Xin. My tentative thesis topic is Building Educational Chatbots for Historical Figures.

Since joining the HCIL lab in 2018, I work with advisor Dr. Joel Chan on the computational analogy project for sensemaking and creativity.

In 2019 and 2020, I was fortunate to intern at Adobe Research with Dr. Eunyee Koh, Dr. Ryan Rossi et al. on ML techniques for visual analytics, specifically captioning and recommendation. Previously, I also interned at DAMO Academy, Alibaba on dialog state tracking.

Many influenced me throughout education including an MS in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University (2018) and a BEng in Software Engineering from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University (2016).

Papers

• Generating Accurate Caption Units For Figure Captioning.
  Xin Qian, Eunyee Koh, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Joel Chan, Ryan Rossi, Sana Malik, and Tak Yeon Lee.
  TheWebConf'21 (WWW). To appear.
  


• Ask Me Anything: Building educational chatbots for historical figures.
  iConference'21, Doctoral Colloquium.
  


• ML-based Visualization Recommendation: Learning to Recommend Visualizations from Data.
  Xin Qian, Ryan A. Rossi, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Sana Malik, Tak Yeon Lee, and Joel Chan.
  ArXiv preprint. Sept 2020.
  


• Opening Up the Black Box of Scholarly Synthesis: Intermediate Products, Processes, and Tools.
  Xin Qian, Katrina Fenlon, Wayne Lutters, and Joel Chan.
  ASIS&T'20. [Blogpost] [Presentation] [HCIL Symposium]


• A Formative Study on Designing Accurate and Natural Figure Captioning Systems.
  Xin Qian, Eunyee Koh, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, and Joel Chan.
  CHI'20 (Late Breaking Works). [PDF] [Corpus]


• Complex Factoid Question Answering with a Free-Text Knowledge Graph.
  Chen Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Xin Qian, and Jordan Boyd-Graber.
  TheWebConf'20 (WWW). [Presentation]
  Contribution: Local knowledge graph construction and edge classification on two benchmark datasets.


• Beyond iTunes for Papers: Redefining the unit of interaction in literature review tools.
  Xin Qian, Matt J. Erhart, Aniket Kittur, Wayne G. Lutters, and Joel Chan.
  CSCW'19 (Extended Abstract). [PDF] [Video]


• Interleaved Evaluation for Retrospective Summarization and Prospective Notification on Document Streams.
  Xin Qian, Jimmy Lin, and Adam Roegiest.
  SIGIR'16. Oral presentation.

The Google Scholar profile includes a mixture of peer-reviewed papers, and technical reports.