Tong Li (李童)

Tong Li (李童)

PH.D. at Zhejiang University of Technology, an explorer in the field of visual analytics.

Tong Li (李童)

Tong Li is a lecturer at the School of Media Engineering, Communication University of Zhejiang. Her research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and visual analytics, with recent focus on data visualization, model interpretability, and vision-language learning. She has published over 15 papers in related fields, accumulating over 60 citations.

Email: litong@zjut.edu.cn
Research Interests: Interactive Visual Analysis · Vision-Language Learning · Model Interpretability

Work and Education Experiences 🎓

Lecturer, Communication University of Zhejiang, 2026 – Present
Media Computing and Visualization Group
Supervisors: Prof. Dingguo Yu (俞定国) & Prof. Yun Zhang (张赟)

Ph.D. Student, Zhejiang University of Technology, 2019 – 2025
Data Visualization Group (ZjutVis)
Supervisors: Prof. Ronghua Liang (梁荣华) & Prof. Guodao Sun (孙国道)

Publications 🎉

EVRAgent Paper
Submitted
Edit, Verify, Reason: A Framework for Verified Chart Modification Question Answering
Xueqian Zheng, Tong Li, Qi Jiang, Yunchao Wang, Wang Xia, Guodao Sun & Ronghua Liang
🚀 Submitted to IEEE VIS , 2026
[Paper]
ChartMLens Paper
Submitted
ChartMLens: Interactive Visual Analysis and Diagnosis of Multimodal LLM Reasoning in ChartQA
Tong Li, Ruiyang Liang, Xi Chen, Yun Zhang, Baofeng Chang, Yuxiang Shan, Yanghua Gao, Guodao Sun* & Ronghua Liang
🚀 Submitted to Visual Informatics (VI), 2026
[Paper] [Dataset]
ChartMind Paper
Submitted
ChartMind: Benchmark and Deconstruction for Multimodal Chart Reasoning
Tong Li, Guodao Sun, Shunkai Wang, Zuoyu Tang, Yang Shu, Xueqian Zheng, Zhentao Zheng, Qi Jiang, Haixia Wang & Ronghua Liang
🚀 Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025
[Paper] [Dataset] [Project Web]
MegaCQA Paper
Reviewing
MegaCQA: A chart question answering dataset for general visual understanding
Xueqian Zheng, Tong Li, Zhou Liu, Zhentao Zheng, Xuhui Ma, Guodao Sun*, Qi Jiang* & Ronghua Liang
🚀 Scientific Data (Nature), 2025
[Dataset]
CompoVis Paper
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, Xu Tan, Haidong Gao, Haixia Wang & Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025
[Dataset] [Algorithm]
AutoMA Paper
PacificVis
AutoMA: Automated Generation of Multi-level Annotations for Time Series Visualization
Qi Jiang, Guodao Sun*, Tong Li, Jingwei Tang, Wang Xia, Yunchao Wang, Li Jiang & Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis), 2025
[Paper]
PacificVis2025 Paper
PacificVis
Probing the Compositional Understanding in VLMs with Visualization Representation and Insights
Tong Li, Guodao Sun*, Xueqian Zheng, Haixia Wang & Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis), 2025
[Poster]
Jcad2025 Paper
Jcad
Visual Analysis Method for Compositional Understanding in Vision-Language Models
Tong Li, Guodao Sun, Haixia Wng, Haidong Gao, Xu Tan & Ronghua Liang
✅ Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 2025
[Paper]
Skelemap Paper
JoV
skelemap: skeleton-based boundary growth for efficient and automated cartogram generation
Yunchao Wang, Guodao Sun*, Zihao Zhu, Tong Li & Ronghua Liang
✅ Journal of Visualization, 2024
[Paper]
Video Visualization Paper
IEEE TCSVT
Video Visualization and Visual Analytics: A Task-Based and Application-Driven Investigation
Wang Xia, Guodao Sun*, Tong Li, Baofeng Chang, Jingwei Tang, Gefei Zhang & Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024
[Paper]
LANDER Paper
IEEE THMS
LANDER: Visual Analysis of Activity and Uncertainty in Surveillance Video
Tong Li, Guodao Sun*, Baofeng Chang, Yunchao Wang, Qi Jiang, Yuanzhong Ying, Li Jiang, Haixia Wang & Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS), 2024
[Paper]
Qutaber Paper
ChinaVis
Qutaber: Task-based Exploratory Data Analysis with Enriched Context Awareness
Qi Jiang, Guodao Sun*, Tong Li, Jingwei Tang, Wang Xia, Sujia Zhu & Ronghua Liang
✅ China Conference on Data Visualization (China Vis), 2023
[Paper]
E2Storyline Paper
ACM TIST
E2Storyline: Visualizing the Relationship with Triplet Entities and Event Discovery
Yunchao Wang, Guodao Sun*, Zihao Zhu, Tong Li, Ling Chen & Ronghua Liang
✅ ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2023
[Paper]
MUSE Paper
IEEE TVCG
MUSE: Visual Analysis of Musical Semantic Sequence
Baofeng Chang, Guodao Sun*, Tong Li, Houchao Huang, Ronghua Liang
✅ IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2022
[Paper]
SurVizor Paper
ChinaVis
SurVizor: Visualizing and Understanding the Key Content of Surveillance Videos
Guodao Sun*, Tong Li & Ronghua Liang
✅ China Conference on Data Visualization (China Vis), 2021
[Paper]

Awards & Competitions 🏆

第八届中国研究生智慧城市技术与创意设计大赛，国家级三等奖，2023
第十一届中国大学生服务外包创新创业大赛，国家三等奖，2020

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, 2026), ACM MM (2025, 2026), CogSci (2025, 2026)
  • Human-Computer Interaction: UbiComp/ISWC (2024), CUI (2025), HAI (2024), ACM SUI (2024)
  • Others: IEEE VR (2026), 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)
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • npj Heritage Science (Nature Portfolio)
  • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
  • Multimedia Systems