Yue Yu (θ™žθΆŠ)

Hi, I'm Yue (or Bruce), an MPhil student (and will continue as a PhD student from 2025) at HKUST supervised by Prof. Huamin Qu and Prof. Cameron Campbell, and previously earned my BSc in Quantitative Social Analysis and Computer Science in the same university.

With background in both Computer Science and Social Science, I am interested in understanding complex human behavior and making a positive impact on society through AI and computing systems.

When I'm not working, I enjoy human-nature interaction (i.e., hiking) in Hong Kong. I'm also passionate about Karate, a sport that teaches me to be patient and resilient.

πŸ“’ I'm always open to new opportunities and collaborations!
Find me via:

Human-Nature Interaction (HNI)
Human-Human Interaction (HHI)
Graduation in 2023 πŸŽ“
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News
Feb 2025 πŸŽ‰ Our paper MagicQuill has been accepted by CVPR 2025! See you in Nashville.
Dec 2024 πŸŽ‰ Our paper InclusiViz has been accepted by PacificVis 2025 (TVCG Journal Track)! See you in Taipei.
Dec 2024 🎀 Gave an online talk with my co-author Zichen about our MagicQuill, invited by ModelScope at Alibaba DAMO Academy.
[Bilibili]
Nov 2024 🎨 We release MagicQuill, an intelligent and interactive image editing system! Try it out!
[magicquill.art]
Oct 2024 πŸ“¦ GWalkR just dropped v0.2, which integrates DuckDB for powerful computation! Read my tutorial below.
[CRAN][blog]
Aug 2024 πŸ† Our paper "PyGWalker" is accepted by IEEE VIS 2024 and won the best short paper! See you in Tampa.
[paper]
Aug 2024 πŸ‘€ Found amazing tutorial video and article made by Matt Dancho (Business Science) introducing our R package GWalkR. Thank you!
[Youtube][R-bloggers]
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My research aims to drive innovation in computational social science and digital art creation, leveraging big data and AI across key stages: πŸ” Explore data management and exploration, πŸ“Š Analyze analysis and interpretation, and πŸ’‘ Impact translating insights and creativity into real-world impact.

InclusiViz: Visual Analytics of Human Mobility Data for Understanding and Mitigating Urban Segregation
Yue Yu, Yifang Wang, Yongjun Zhang, Huamin Qu, Dongyu Liu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (PacificVis 2025)
[arXiv]
Data Analysis & Interpretation
Social Science
MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System
Zichen Liu*, Yue Yu* (co-first), Hao Ouyang, Qiuyu Wang, Ka Leong Cheng, Wen Wang, Zhiheng Liu, Qifeng Chen, Yujun Shen
IEEE /CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
[arXiv][project page][online talk (Chinese)]
Real-world applications
Image Editing
PyGWalker: On-the-fly Assistant for Exploratory Visual Data Analysis
Yue Yu, Leixian Shen, Fei Long, Huamin Qu, Hao Chen
IEEE VIS 2024
Best Short Paper
[paper][arXiv]
Data Management & Exploration
Viz Tool
Open-source
Highlighted Projects
GWalkR: R Package for Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis
πŸ•΅οΈ GWalkR is an interactive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Tool in R. With just single line of code, it can simplify your R data analysis and data visualization workflow by turning your data frame into a Tableau-style UI for visual exploration. Also, by using it in RMarkdown, you can create web page to showcase your insights with editable and explorable.
πŸͺ„ Below are some examples showing the power of GWalkR with RMarkdown. Data are from TidyTuesday:
Work & Research Experience
Selected Honors & Awards
  • IEEE VIS 2024 Best Short Paper Award (top 1%)
    2024
  • First Class Honors
    2023
  • Professor Samuel Chanson Best Final Year Project Award (top 2 in 114 teams)
    2023
  • Second place in IEEE SusTech 2022 Student Poster Competition
    2022
  • Multiple Dean’s List and Scholarships at HKUST, totaling HKD 60,000
    2019 - 2023