PhD Student · Virginia Tech

Hi, I’m Jiahao.

Visual Analytics
Human–Computer Interaction
Interactive Systems

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Chris North.

Curriculum vitae

Portrait of Jiahao Xu

Publications

2026

Drag, Infer, Reproject: Grounding LLMs through Spatial Interaction for Image Clustering

Yang Liu, Xuxin Tang, Jiahao Xu, and Chris North

arXiv preprint, arXiv:2606.28517 [cs.HC].
2025

The Effects of Belief Elicitation in Visual Data Analysis: A Longitudinal Classroom Study

Edward W. He, Vanessa Bellotti, Alexandra Scott, Jiahao Xu, Ashley Suh, Jen Rogers, and Remco Chang

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Contact

jiahao@vt.edu github.com/jiahaoxu14