I’m Ziao Liu (刘子奥), a second-year graduate student at Zhejiang University (ZJU). I’m a member of the ZJUIDG Lab, co-supervised by Prof. Xiao Xie, Prof. Hui Zhang, and Prof. Yingcai Wu. I received my bachelor’s degree of Data Science and Big Data Technology at Chongqing Univeristy (CQU), where I was supervised by Prof. Haibo Hu and was part of the CQU-VIVA Lab.

My research focuses on data visualization and human-computer interaction (HCI) within the domain of sports. Currently, I am exploring the integration of large language models (LLMs) into sports analytics, particularly applying them in tactical and strategy analysis.

🔥 News

• 2024.07:  🎉 A paper accepted to IEEE VIS 2024.
• 2023.09:  Start my Ph.D. program at Zhejiang University.

📝 Publications

VIS 2024

Smartboard: Visual Exploration of Team Tactics with LLM Agent

Ziao Liu, Xiao Xie, Moqi He, Wenshuo Zhao, Yihong Wu, Liqi Cheng, Hui Zhang, and Yingcai Wu

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS’24)

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PVIS 2025

Visual Analytics of Ball Handlers’ Decisions in Basketball Games

Yihong Wu, Ziao Liu, Liqi Cheng, Moqi He, Dazhen Deng, Xiao Xie, Hui Zhang, and Yingcai Wu

IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PVIS’25)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2023.06  Outstanding Graduate of Chongqing University (CQU).
• 2023.04  Gratitude to Chinese Modern and Contemporary Scientists Scholarship.
• 2022.07  Yangtze River Power Scholarship.

📖 Educations

• 2023.09 - now  School of Education, Zhejiang University (ZJU).
• 2019.09 - 2023.06  School of Big Data and Software Engineering, Chongqing University (CQU).