| Apr. 2025 | Our paper, PrettiSmart, won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award🏆 at PacificVis2025 (TVCG Track)! Congratulations to Xiaolin! 🥳🥳🥳 |
| Mar. 2025 | Recently, our team had one paper accepted by EuroVis25 and two papers accepted by CHI25-LBW! 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Feb. 2025 | Fengling and Yi joined our team as visiting students! Welcome!!!🎉🎉🎉 |
| Jan. 2025 | Xiaolin became the first PhD student at NTU, Shiwei joined the team as a master’s student, and Jaeuk joined us as a visiting student. Warm welcome!👏👏👏 |
| Dec. 2024 | Our team recently had two papers about smart contract visualization (PrettiSmart and PonziLens+) accepted by PacificVis2025 (TVCG Track) and TVCG! Congratulations to Xiaolin! 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Dec. 2024 | Fengjie, Yilun, and Can joined the team, warm welcome!👏👏👏 |
| Oct. 2024 | Triple boost for the team — ChartKG & our CNN-Generalization study were accepted by TVCG, and AdaMotif was accepted by IEEE VIS 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Jul. 2024 | VIDA Lab moved to Nanyang Technological University (NTU)!!!🎉🎉🎉 |
| Jan. 2024 | Strong start to the year: VAID (CHI 2024) & ConceptThread (TVCG) were accepted, and Kavinda joined us as a Research Engineer — welcome aboard! 👏👏👏 |
| Dec. 2023 | VIOLET was accepted by PacificVis 2024 (TVCG Track), capping a six-paper year for the team — way to go! 🚀🚀🚀 |
| Oct. 2023 | Autumn haul: five new papers across EMNLP, TVCG, PRDC & FinLLM, and NumGPT won the Technology Novelty Award — stellar teamwork! 🏆 |
| Aug. 2023 | The team expands: Manusha (PhD), Li & Haoxuan (visiting scholars), and Xiaolin (RE) joined, while Shaolun received the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship — congrats! 🎓🎉 |
| Mar. 2023 | Spring surge: seven team papers accepted across CHI LBW, EuroVis, KDD, TKDD, TVCG & more — fantastic collaboration, team! 🌟 |
| Sep. 2022 | 2022 highlights: two VIS 2022 papers (VACSEN, Taurus), a CHI 2022 Best Paper Honorable Mention for Structure-Aware Retrieval, Gesturelens published in TVCG, tutorials presented at QCE 2022 & ESWeek 2022. Visiting PhDs, Yanna & Cheng, joined — great job team! 🔥 |
| Feb. 2022 | Shaolun officially joined our team as a PhD student and Xiaolin joined our team as a visiting student! Warm welcome! 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Sep. 2021 | Breakthrough year: two IEEE VIS 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mentions (KG4VIS & M²Lens), multiple TVCG/DATE acceptances, and our first PhD student, Songheng, joined — bravo team! 🥳 |
| Jan. 2021 | Early victories: EuroVis 2021, CHI 2021 and a patented video-analysis system set a solid foundation for the lab — keep it up, team! 🚀 |
| Sep. 2020 | VIDA Lab was born at SMU! |