Chenxi Ruan 阮晨曦

Hi! I am Chenxi Ruan, a Year 1 PhD student in Data Science and Analytics Thrust at the Information hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Wei Zeng. I received my B.Eng degree in Software Engineering in South China University of Technology in 2025 supervised by Prof. Zikun Deng.

My research interests focus on multimodal large language models, with an emphasis on visualization and interpretability for understanding cross-modal semantic alignment. I am currently conducting research on evaluating multimodal large language models’ understanding of color–concept associations.


Education
  • South China University of Technology
    South China University of Technology
    Software Engineering and Business Administration
    Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2025
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Data Science and Analytics Thrust
    Sep. 2025 -
Experience
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Research Intern, CIVAL Lab
    Jun. 2024 -Jul. 2025
  • South China University of Technology
    South China University of Technology
    Project Intern, Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot
    Sep. 2023 - Apr. 2024
Honors & Awards
  • The Third Prize Winner(Top 3%) of CCF Big Data and Computing Intelligence Contest (BDCI)-Urban Population Analysis and Prediction
    2024
  • The Third Prize Winner of “Greater Bay Cup” Financial Mathematical Modeling Competition
    2023
News
2025
One co-authored paper about A novel DR visualization technique for interactive exploration of multimodal embeddings is accepted by VIS’25
Jul 01
One co-authored paper about Large-Scale Spatial Time Series is accepted by TVCG
Jan 30
2024
💻Joined CIVAL Lab as a research assistant.
Jun 04
2023
🎇Attended CCF BDCI!
Dec 22
👀Start my first visualization project. Supervised by Prof. Zikun Deng
Sep 19