PhD Student · Virginia Tech

Hi, I’m Jiahao.

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Chris North.

Publications

2026

Spatial Visual Analytics for Multi-Document Summary Verification

Jiahao Xu, Wei Liu, Yang Liu, Eric Krokos, Kirsten Whitley, Xuan Wang, Rebecca Faust, and Chris North

IEEE VIS 2026.
Drag, Infer, Reproject: Grounding LLMs through Spatial Interaction for Image Clustering

Yang Liu, Xuxin Tang, Jiahao Xu, and Chris North

IEEE VIS 2026 (Short Paper).
The Effects of Belief Elicitation in Visual Data Analysis: A Longitudinal Classroom Study

Edward W. He, Vanessa Bellotti, Alexandra Scott, Jiahao Xu, Ashley Suh, Jen Rogers, and Remco Chang

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Volume: 32, Issue: 2, February 2026).

Contact

jiahao@vt.edu github.com/jiahaoxu14