Xiaolin Wen 温啸林 (Shawn)
I am now a PhD student in VIDA Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) under the guidance of Prof. Yong Wang. In 2023, I got my master’s degree in computer science at Vision Computing Lab, Sichuan University, and my supervisor was Prof. Min Zhu. In 2020, I got my dual bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology & financial engineering at Sichuan University. I have also served as a reviewer for major conferences and journals in visualization, HCI, and Blockchain, including IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, IEEE PacificVis, ChinaVis, and TWEB.
My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction and Data Visualization. Now, I am working on Visualization for Fintech and Vis+LLM.
🔥 News
- 2025.04: 🎉🎉 PrettiSmart won the Best Paper Honorable Mention in PacificVis25 (TVCG Track)!
- 2025.04: 🎤 Gave an oral presentation for the published paper PrettiSmart at PacificVis 2025!
- 2025.04: 📜 IntelliCircos is accepted by EuroVis 2025!
- 2025.01: 🎓 Become a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore!
- 2024.12: 📜 PrettiSmart is accepted by PacificVis 2025 (TVCG Track)!
- 2024.12: 📜 PonziLens+ is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)!
- 2024.10: 🎤 Gave an oral presentation for the published paper DiffSeer at IEEE VIS 2024!
- 2024.07: 🧑💻 Became a Research Engineer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore!
- 2024.01: 🎤 Gave a talk titled “Visualization for Web3 Fraud Detection” at Sichuan University!
- 2023.12: 📜 VIOLET is accepted by 2024 IEEE PacificVis (TVCG Track)!
- 2023.09: 🎤 Attended a panel discussion as a Guest Speaker at the Web3 Security Forum, SMU Singapore!
- 2023.09: 🧑💻 Became a Research Engineer at Singapore Management University!
- 2023.06: 🎓 Graduated from Sichuan University with a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Technology!
- 2023.06: 🎖️ Received the Research Star Award and Excellent Graduation Thesis Award at Sichuan University!
- 2023.04: 🎤 Gave an oral presentation for the published paper NFTDisk at CHI 2023, Germany!
- 2023.02: 📜 PonziLens is accepted by CHI 2023 Late-Breaking Work!
- 2023.02: 📜 DiffSeer is accepted by IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A)!
- 2023.01: 📜 NFTDisk is accepted by CHI 2023!
- 2022.02: 🧑💻 Became a Research Assistant at Singapore Management University!
- 2021.12: 🎖️ Won the First Prize of Tencent Scholarship at Sichuan University!
- 2021.10: 🏫 Became a Visiting Student at Southern University of Science and Technology!
- 2020.09: 🎓 Joined Visual Computing Lab at Sichuan University to pursue a Master’s degree!
- 2020.06: 🎓 Graduated from Sichuan University with dual Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Financial Engineering!
📝 Publications
IntelliCircos: A Data-driven and AI-powered Authoring Tool for Circos Plots
Mingyang Gu, Jiamin Zhu, Qipeng Wang, Fengjie Wang, Xiaolin Wen, Yong Wang, and Min Zhu.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 25). 2025.
PrettiSmart: Visual Interpretation of Smart Contracts via Simulationn
Xiaolin Wen, Tai D. Nguyen, Lun Zhang, Jun Sun, and Yong Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of PacificVis 25 TVCG track). 2025.
(Best Paper Honorable Mention)
PonziLens+: Visualizing Bytecode Actions for Smart Ponzi Scheme Identification
Xiaolin Wen, Tai D. Nguyen, Shaolun Ruan, Qiaomu Shen, Jun Sun, Feida Zhu, and Yong Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2025.
VIOLET: Visual Analytics for Explainable Quantum Neural Networks
Shaolun Ruan, Zhiding Liang, Qiang Guan, Paul Griffin, Xiaolin Wen, Yanna Lin and Yong Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of PacificVis 24 TVCG track). 2024.
NFTDisk: Visual Detection of Wash Trading in NFT Markets
Xiaolin Wen, Yong Wang, Xuanwu Yue, Feida Zhu, Min Zhu.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.
Code Will Tell: Visual Identification of Ponzi Schemes on Ethereum
Xiaolin Wen, Kim Siang Yeo, Yong Wang, Ling Cheng, Feida Zhu, Min Zhu.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstract, 2023.
DiffSeer: Difference-based Dynamic Weighted Graph Visualization
Xiaolin Wen, Yong Wang, Meixuan Wu, Fengjie Wang, Xuanwu Yue, Qiaomu Shen, Yuxin Ma, Min Zhu.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2023.
WarehouseLens: Visualizing and Exploring Turnover Events of Digital Warehouse
Fuqiu Chen, Jizhou Li, Fengjie Wang, Shangsong Liu, Xiaolin Wen, Pengyuan Li, Min Zhu.
Journal of Visualization, 2023.
Visual Analysis Method of Blockchain Community Evolution Based on DPoS Consensus Mechanism
Xiaolin Wen, Changlin Li, Shangsong Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Min Zhu.
Computer Science, 2022. (Chinese Journal)
TriPlan: An Interactive Visual Analytics Approach for Better Tourism Route Planning
Xinyi Zhang, Xiao Pang, Xiaolin Wen, Fengjie Wang, Changlin Li, Min Zhu.
Journal of Visualization, 2022.
MDIVis: Visual Analytics of Multiple Destination Images on Tourism User Generated Content
Changlin Li, Mengqi Cao, Xiaolin Wen, Haotian Zhu, Shangsong Liu, Min Zhu.
Visual Informatics, 2022.
MulUBA: Multi-level Visual Analytics of User Behaviors for Improving Online Shopping Advertising
Shangsong Liu, Di Peng, Haotian Zhu, Xiaolin Wen, Xinyi Zhang, Zhenghao Zhou, Min Zhu.
Journal of Visualization, 2021.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.04 Best Paper Honorable Mention, PacificVis 2025 Journal Track
- 2023.06 Research Star, College of Compueter Science, Sichuan University (5/319)
- 2023.06 Excellent Graduation Thesis, College of Compueter Science, Sichuan University (5/319)
- 2021.12 The First Price of Tencent Scholarship, Sichuan University. (3/319)
- 2021.06 The Award of Excellence, ChinaVis Challenge 2021. (27/77)
- 2020.05 The Award of Excellence, ChinaVis Challenge 2020. (32/96)
📖 Educations
- 2025.01 - now, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- 2020.09 - 2023.06, Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Technology, Sichuan University, China.
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Technology & Financial Engineering, Sichuan University, China.
💬 Invited Talks
- 2024.01, Visualization for Web3 Fraud Detection, Sichuan University, China.
- 2023.09, Panel Discussion: On-chain Data and Web3 Security, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
💻 Internships
- 2024.07 – 2024.12, Research Engineer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Visualization + LLM.
- Visualization for software engineering.
- Visualization for FinTech and Web3.
- 2023.09 – 2024.07, Research Engineer, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
- Visual Identification of Ponzi Scheme on Ethereum.
- Visualization for FinTech and Web3.
- 2022.02 – 2022.09, Research Assistant, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
- Dynamic Weighted Graph Visualization.
- Visual detection of Wash Trading in NFT markets.
- Visual Identification of Ponzi Scheme on Ethereum.
- 2021.10 – 2021.12, Visiting Student, Southern University of Science and Technology, China.
- Dynamic Weighted Graph Visualization.