| 2026 | AAAI | DensiCrafter: Physically-Constrained Generation and Fabrication of Self-Supporting Hollow Structures. | Shengqi Dang, Fu Chai, Jiaxin Li, Chao Yuan, Wei Ye, Nan Cao |
| 2026 | AAAI | Designed to Spread: A Generative Approach to Enhance Information Diffusion. | Ziqing Qian, Jiaying Lei, Shengqi Dang, Nan Cao |
| 2026 | CHI | Beyond Input-Output: Rethinking Creativity through Design-by-Analogy in Human-AI Collaboration. | Xuechen Li, Shuai Zhang, Nan Cao, Qing Chen |
| 2026 | CHI | From Touch to Change: Understanding Public Engagement in Data Physicalization for Social Good. | Yechun Peng, Runxi Wu, Nan Cao, Yang Shi |
| 2026 | IUI | Vistoryteller: Designing Data Stories with LLM Agent-Based Generation and Interactive User Control. | Yang Shi, Chuyi Zheng, Zijian Yang, Ke Xu, Nan Cao |
| 2026 | PacificVis | InScribe: Intelligent Augmentation of Natural-Language Statements with Data Facts. | Chuer Chen, Yuqi Liu, Danqing Shi, Shixiong Cao, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | CHI | Sip Your Emotions: Blending Emotion and Data in Cocktail Design. | Chenpu Li, Yangfan Tian, Tian Qi, Yaqi Yang, Jiajie Chen, Yiting Liu, Guanhong Liu, Qing Chen, Yang Shi, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | CHI | City of Wander: Visualizing Scientific Literature for Knowledge Exploration Using Visual Metaphors. | Guanhong Liu, Yutong Jiang, Xiaoke Yan, Nan Cao, Yang Shi |
| 2025 | CHI | From Struggle to Enjoyment: Investigating ICH Digital Inheritance Through the Lens of Vocational Education. | Qixuan Xu, Zhiyuan Zhou, Nan Cao, Guanhong Liu |
| 2025 | CHI | ViviClay: Fabricating Ceramics with Animated Surface Effects. | Jingxin Ye, Qiaoqiao Jin, Chao Yuan, Xuechen Li, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao, Guanhong Liu |
| 2025 | ICCV | EmotiCrafter: Text-to-Emotional-Image Generation Based on Valence-Arousal Model. | Shengqi Dang, Yi He, Long Ling, Ziqing Qian, Nanxuan Zhao, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | KDD | Way to Specialist: Closing Loop Between Specialized LLM and Evolving Domain Knowledge Graph. | Yutong Zhang, Lixing Chen, Shenghong Li, Nan Cao, Yang Shi, Jiaxin Ding, Zhe Qu, Pan Zhou, Yang Bai |
| 2025 | SIGGRAPH | QRBTF - AI QR Code Generator. | Hao Ni, Baiyu Chen, Zhaohan Wang, Zhiyong Chen, Wanyi Miao, Xin Lyu, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | UIST | ViviClay: Designing and Fabricating Ceramics with Animation Effects on Physical Surfaces. | Guanhong Liu, Jingxin Ye, Qiaoqiao Jin, Chao Yuan, Xuechen Li, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | SiggraphA | When Stars Shine through Silence: Affective Visualization as Empowerment for Victims of Subway Harassment. | Yutong Jiang, Xiaoke Yan, Chuyi Zheng, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao |
| 2025 | SiggraphA | Echoes of Poetry: Recontextualizing Classical Chinese Poetry into Modern Pop Music through Narrative Visualization. | Yechun Peng, Xin Chen, Dianheng Jiang, Hanyu Dong, Nan Cao, Yang Shi |
| 2024 | CHI | Beyond Numbers: Creating Analogies to Enhance Data Comprehension and Communication with Generative AI. | Qing Chen, Wei Shuai, Jiyao Zhang, Zhida Sun, Nan Cao |
| 2024 | CHI | Personalizing Products with Stylized Head Portraits for Self-Expression. | Yang Shi, Yechun Peng, Shengqi Dang, Nanxuan Zhao, Nan Cao |
| 2024 | PacificVis | Understanding and Automating Graphical Annotations on Animated Scatterplots. | Danqing Shi, Antti Oulasvirta, Tino Weinkauf, Nan Cao |
| 2023 | ICCV | Bring Clipart to Life. | Nanxuan Zhao, Shengqi Dang, Hexun Lin, Yang Shi, Nan Cao |
| 2023 | IJCAI | Scalable Optimal Margin Distribution Machine. | Yilin Wang, Nan Cao, Teng Zhang, Xuanhua Shi, Hai Jin |
| 2023 | VTC | High Reliability Transmission Scheme for Anchored Indoor New Radio Unlicensed Systems. | Jiankang Wang, Peng Xue, Hongliang Bian, Yue Yuan, Ying Wang, Nan Cao |
| 2022 | CHI | Negative Emotions, Positive Outcomes? Exploring the Communication of Negativity in Serious Data Stories. | Xingyu Lan, Yanqiu Wu, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao |
| 2022 | IJCAI | Posistive-Unlabeled Learning via Optimal Transport and Margin Distribution. | Nan Cao, Teng Zhang, Xuanhua Shi, Hai Jin |
| 2021 | CHI | Communicating with Motion: A Design Space for Animated Visual Narratives in Data Videos. | Yang Shi, Xingyu Lan, Jingwen Li, Zhaorui Li, Nan Cao |
| 2021 | CHI | Understanding the Design Space for Animated Narratives Applied to Illustrations. | Yang Shi, Zhaorui Li, Lingfei Xu, Nan Cao |
| 2021 | CHI | Vinci: An Intelligent Graphic Design System for Generating Advertising Posters. | Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, Fuling Sun, Jingwen Li, Zhaorui Li, Yang Shi, Nan Cao |
| 2021 | CHI | Understanding Narrative Linearity for Telling Expressive Time-Oriented Stories. | Xingyu Lan, Xinyue Xu, Nan Cao |
| 2021 | IJCAI | Partial Multi-Label Optimal Margin Distribution Machine. | Nan Cao, Teng Zhang, Hai Jin |
| 2021 | WWW | Deep Co-Attention Network for Multi-View Subspace Learning. | Lecheng Zheng, Yu Cheng, Hongxia Yang, Nan Cao, Jingrui He |
| 2021 | WWW | Attent: Active Attributed Network Alignment. | Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Xintao Wu, Nan Cao, Lei Ying, Hanghang Tong |
| 2020 | CHI | EmoG: Supporting the Sketching of Emotional Expressions for Storyboarding. | Yang Shi, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma, Siji Chen, Pei Liu |
| 2019 | AAAI | AI-Sketcher : A Deep Generative Model for Producing High-Quality Sketches. | Nan Cao, Xin Yan, Yang Shi, Chaoran Chen |
| 2019 | CHI | Visualizing Uncertainty and Alternatives in Event Sequence Predictions. | Shunan Guo, Fan Du, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Sungchul Kim, Zhicheng Liu, Donghyun Kim, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao |
| 2019 | ICDM | ADMIRING: Adversarial Multi-network Mining. | Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Nan Cao, Lei Ying, Hanghang Tong |
| 2018 | CHI | Designing Emotional Expressions of Conversational States for Voice Assistants: Modality and Engagement. | Yang Shi, Xin Yan, Xiaojuan Ma, Yongqi Lou, Nan Cao |
| 2018 | CHI | ECGLens: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Scale ECG Data for Arrhythmia Detection. | Ke Xu, Shunan Guo, Nan Cao, David Gotz, Aiwen Xu, Huamin Qu, Zhenjie Yao, Yixin Chen |
| 2018 | CIKM | X-Rank: Explainable Ranking in Complex Multi-Layered Networks. | Jian Kang, Scott Freitas, Haichao Yu, Yinglong Xia, Nan Cao, Hanghang Tong |
| 2018 | RecSys | Extra: explaining team recommendation in networks. | Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Nan Cao, Norbou Buchler, Hanghang Tong |
| 2018 | RO-MAN | Sound Reduction of Vibration Feedback by Perceptually Similar Modulation. | Nan Cao, Hikaru Nagano, Masashi Konyo, Satoshi Tadokoro |
| 2017 | CHI | iSphere: Focus+Context Sphere Visualization for Interactive Large Graph Exploration. | Fan Du, Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Panpan Xu, Hanghang Tong |
| 2017 | CHI | Attention, Comprehension, Execution: Effects of Different Designs of Biofeedback Display. | Zhida Sun, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma |
| 2017 | CIKM | Rapid Analysis of Network Connectivity. | Scott Freitas, Hanghang Tong, Nan Cao, Yinglong Xia |
| 2017 | CSCW | Video-based Evanescent, Anonymous, Asynchronous Social Interaction: Motivation and Adaption to Medium. | Xiaojuan Ma, Nan Cao |
| 2017 | KDD | FIRST: Fast Interactive Attributed Subgraph Matching. | Boxin Du, Si Zhang, Nan Cao, Hanghang Tong |
| 2017 | KDD | Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts? | Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong, Yong Wang, Conglei Shi, Nan Cao, Norbou Buchler |
| 2016 | CIKM | TEAMOPT: Interactive Team Optimization in Big Networks. | Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong, Nan Cao, Kate Ehrlich, Yu-Ru Lin, Norbou Buchler |
| 2016 | IUI | Adaptive Contextualization: Combating Bias During High-Dimensional Visualization and Data Selection. | David Gotz, Shun Sun, Nan Cao |
| 2016 | SIGGRAPH | VideoForest: interactive visual summarization of video streams based on danmu data. | Zhida Sun, Mingfei Sun, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma |
| 2015 | CHI | g-Miner: Interactive Visual Group Mining on Multivariate Graphs. | Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong |
| 2015 | CHI | Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions. | Fan Du, Nan Cao, Jian Zhao, Yu-Ru Lin |
| 2015 | ICDM | Rare Category Detection on Time-Evolving Graphs. | Dawei Zhou, Kangyang Wang, Nan Cao, Jingrui He |
| 2015 | Interact | MindMiner: A Mixed-Initiative Interface for Interactive Distance Metric Learning. | Xiangmin Fan, Youming Liu, Nan Cao, Jason I. Hong, Jingtao Wang |
| 2015 | IUI | MindMiner: Quantifying Entity Similarity via Interactive Distance Metric Learning. | Xiangmin Fan, Youming Liu, Nan Cao, Jason I. Hong, Jingtao Wang |
| 2015 | WWW | Replacing the Irreplaceable: Fast Algorithms for Team Member Recommendation. | Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong, Nan Cao, Kate Ehrlich, Yu-Ru Lin, Norbou Buchler |
| 2014 | ICDM | UnTangle: Visual Mining for Data with Uncertain Multi-labels via Triangle Map. | Yu-Ru Lin, Nan Cao, David Gotz, Lu Lu |
| 2014 | PAKDD | Visual Analysis of Uncertainty in Trajectories. | Lu Lu, Nan Cao, Siyuan Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu |
| 2013 | ICDM | Demonstrating Interactive Multi-resolution Large Graph Exploration. | Zhiyuan Lin, Nan Cao, Hanghang Tong, Fei Wang, U Kang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau |
| 2013 | ICDM | Fast Pairwise Query Selection for Large-Scale Active Learning to Rank. | Buyue Qian, Xiang Wang, Jun Wang, Hongfei Li, Nan Cao, Weifeng Zhi, Ian Davidson |
| 2011 | ICDM | SolarMap: Multifaceted Visual Analytics for Topic Exploration. | Nan Cao, David Gotz, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, Huamin Qu |
| 2010 | SDM | ContexTour: Contextual Contour Analysis on Dynamic Multi-relational Clustering. | Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu |
| 2009 | ICDE | SmallBlue: Social Network Analysis for Expertise Search and Collective Intelligence. | Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Jimeng Sun, Xifeng Yan |
| 2009 | SDM | MultiVis: Content-Based Social Network Exploration through Multi-way Visual Analysis. | Jimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian |
| 2006 | CIKM | The visual funding navigator: analysis of the NSF funding information. | Shixia Liu, Nan Cao, Hao Lv, Hui Su |