Yukai Guo (郭玉楷)

Yukai Guo (郭玉楷)

Tsinghua University

I am Yukai Guo, a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Shixia Liu. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate student at Tsinghua University, where I majored in Software Engineering (2018-2022) and minored in Psychology (2019-2022).

My research interest includes visual analytics and infographics authoring.

✍️ Publications

CHI 2026
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Unpacking Visual Metaphors in Infographics: A Design Space

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

Yukai Guo*, Lanxi Xiao*, Xinhuan Shu, Qiong Wu, Bongshin Lee, Shixia Liu

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

CHI

ICLR 2026
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ChartGalaxy: A Dataset for Infographic Chart Understanding and Generation

Zhen Li*, Duan Li*, Yukai Guo*, Xinyuan Guo*, Bowen Li*, Lanxi Xiao, Shenyu Qiao, Jiashu Chen, Zijian Wu, Hui Zhang, Xinhuan Shu, Shixia Liu

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

OpenReview | Arxiv | Code | Dataset

VIS 2023
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A Unified Interactive Model Evaluation for Classification, Object Detection, and Instance Segmentation in Computer Vision

Changjian Chen*, Yukai Guo*, Fengyuan Tian, Shilong Liu, Weikai Yang, Zhaowei Wang, Jing Wu, Hang Su, Hanspeter Pfister, Shixia Liu

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS 2023), 30(1):76-86

  • Uni-Evaluator is a visual analysis tool to support a unified model evaluation for different computer vision tasks, including classification, object detection, and instance segmentation.

  • We further cleaned the annotations of the COCO validation dataset after the case study shown in our paper. The COCO-format annotation file can be downloaded via this link.

Homepage | Code | Arxiv | IEEE

TVCG
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Interactive Reweighting for Mitigating Label Quality Issues

Weikai Yang, Yukai Guo, Jing Wu, Zheng Wang, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li, Shixia Liu

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(3):1837-1852

Code | Arxiv | IEEE

🎒 Educations

  • 2022.08 - (now), Software Engineering, School of Software, Tsinghua University.
  • 2018.08 - 2022.06, Bachelor in Software Engineering, School of Software, Tsinghua University.
  • 2012.08 - 2018.06, the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, Guangzhou.

🏆 Honors and Awards

  • Honorable Mention Award, ACM CHI, 2026
  • Outstanding Undergraduate of Tsinghua University (清华大学优秀毕业生, Top 2%), 2022
  • Outstanding Undergraduate of Beijing (北京市优秀毕业生, Top 5%), 2022
  • National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 1%), 2021

💻 Internships

  • 2021.01 - 2021.07, Sensetime.
  • 2025.10 - , Canva CORE-CN.

🤝 Services

  • Student Volunteer: VIS (2023)
  • Reviewer: VIS, PacificVis, IUI, ChinaVis, CADCG
  • Teaching Assistant: Discrete Mathematics I