AI-powered learning at Thinkverse
Tech Lead & Founding Engineer at Thinkverse. My work spans full-stack development and contributions to AI service design and maintenance.
Role and product context →I’m a Tech Lead & Founding Engineer at Thinkverse and an HCI researcher working on data visualization and human–AI collaboration. I work on full-stack development for AI-powered math learning systems and contribute to the design and maintenance of AI services.
My research spans data visualization, human–computer interaction, and human–AI collaboration. I collaborate with Dr. Ran Wang at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and am also advised by Dr. Yong Wang at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
I hold a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology and a Bachelor of Laws from HUST.
Selected Work
Designing a 10G homelab network
A practical architecture and deployment walkthrough covering routing, VLAN segmentation, managed Wi-Fi, and access boundaries.
Read the technical walkthrough →Highlights
- 📝 RecruitScope was accepted to ICHEC 2025.
- 📝 Conch was accepted to IEEE VIS 2025.
- 🎉 A project received a nomination for China Vis 2024.
- 📝 JobViz was accepted to Visual Informatics.
Earlier highlights
- 🧑💻 Joined Thinkverse as a Full-Stack Engineer.
- 🎓 Graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with the Outstanding Graduate Award.
- 🧑💻 Joined Tencent PCG Group as a front-end engineering intern.
- 📝 RumorLens was accepted to CHI EA '22.
- 👾 Certified as a PaddlePaddle Developer Expert (PPDE) by Baidu.
Publications
Conch: Competitive Debate Analysis via Visualizing Clash Points and Hierarchical Strategies
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 25). 2025.
RecruitScope: A Visual Analytics System for Multidimensional Recruitment Data Analysis
Xiyuan Zhu, Wenhan Lyu, Chaochao Fu, Yilin Wang, Jie Zheng, Qiyue Tan, Qianhe Chen, Yixin Yu, and Ran Wang*.International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing (ICHEC 2025).
JobViz: Skill-driven visual exploration of job advertisements
Visual Informatics. Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 18-28.
RumorLens: Interactive Analysis and Validation of Suspected Rumors on Social Media
Ran Wang, Kehan Du, Qianhe Chen, Yifei Zhao, Mojie Tang, Hongxi Tao, Shipan Wang, Yiyao Li, and Yong Wang*.CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.
Open Source Contributions
An LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. My contributions focus on inference optimization and software improvements.
Earlier contributions (4)
A C/C++ port of OpenAI’s Whisper model. My contributions include cross-platform support and Apple Neural Engine (ANE) optimization.
A voice activity detection model. My contributions include algorithm fixes and Node.js bindings.
A tool for editing videos by modifying subtitle files. I am a core contributor and maintainer.
A toolkit for deploying deep learning models.
Academic Services
Conference Reviewer
- IEEE VIS 2025
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Award, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
- First-Class Scholarship awarded by Tencent and School of Computer Science and Technology, HUST.
- PaddlePaddle Developer Expert (PPDE), certified by Baidu (PPDE ID:20200721008J).