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I am currently a Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University of Technology, where I joined the Data Visualization Group (ZjutVis) in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Ronghua Liang and Prof. Guodao Sun. My research focuses on interactive visual analysis methods for multimodal (image, video, text) data and cross-modal understanding — bridging human insight with computational intelligence in multimodal understanding.

litong@zjut.edu.cn

Recent Publication 🎉

Submitted

ChartMind: Benchmark and Reasoning Insights of Multimodal Chart Question Answering
Tong Li, Guodao Sun, Shunkai Wang, Zuoyu Tang, Yang Shu & other authors

🚀 Submitted to ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026

[Paper] [Dataset] [Project Web]

IEEE TMM

CompoVis: Is Cross-modal Semantic Alignment of CLIP Optimal? A Visual Analysis Attempt
Tong Li, Guodao Sun, Xueqian Zheng, Qi Jiang, Wang Xia & other authors

✅ Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), August 2025

[Paper] [Dataset] [Algorithm]

Pacific Vis 2025

Probing the Compositional Understanding in VLMs with Visualization Representation and Insights
Tong Li, Guodao Sun, Xueqian Zheng, Haixia Wang & Ronghua Liang

✅ Accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis), 2025

[Poster]

Academic Service & Review

Conference Reviewer

• Visualization: IEEE Vis (2023, 2024) • Euro Vis (2025) • China Vis (2022, 2023, 2024) • China Graph (2024)
• Machine Learning & AI: ICLR (2024) • CogSci (2025)
• Human-Computer Interaction: UbiComp/ISWC (2024) • CUI (2025) • HAI (2024) • ACM SUI (2024)
• Others: CGI (2025) • ICIS (2025)

Journal Reviewer

• International Journal of Computer-Human Interaction (IJCHI)
• IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)