PhD Student · Virginia Tech

Hi, I’m Jiahao.

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

Publications

2026

Spatial Visual Analytics for Multi-Document Summary Verification

Jiahao Xu, Wei Liu, Yang Liu, Eric Krokos, Kirsten Whitley, Xuan Wang, Rebecca Faust, and Chris North

IEEE VIS 2026.
Drag, Infer, Reproject: Grounding LLMs through Spatial Interaction for Image Clustering

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

Preprint.
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 (Volume: 32, Issue: 2, February 2026).

Contact

jiahao@vt.edu github.com/jiahaoxu14