I am currently a 1-st year Ph.D student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), co-advised by Prof. Chen Jason Zhang, Prof. Xiaoyong Wei and Prof. Qing Li. Previously, I obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degree at Xidian University, under the guidance of Prof. Xuefeng Liang.

Research interests

🔥 News

2026.09: One paper on dynamic interactive text-to-visualization was accepted by NeurIPS 2026 as a Spotlight (292/30709 papers).
2026.05: One paper on robust and interactive text-to-visualization was accepted by The VLDB Journal.
2024.10: Our ACM MM 2024 paper received a Best Paper Nomination (26/4385 papers) and an Honourable Mention Award (10/4385 papers).
2024.08: One paper on imbalanced regression for emotion recognition was accepted by Pattern Recognition.
2024.07: One paper on incomplete multimodal learning was accepted by ACM MM 2024 as an oral presentation (3.97%).
2023.08: One paper on imbalanced classification for emotion recognition was accepted by PRCV 2023.

📝 Publications

^* Equal contribution.

NeurIPS 2026 (Spotlight)

VisInteract recovers user intent from imperfect text-to-visualization queries through dynamic multi-turn interaction

VisInteract: Towards Dynamic Interactive Text-to-Visualization under Imperfect Queries

Authors: Wenxin Xu^*, Jinwei Lu^*, Hwanhee Kim, Chen Jason Zhang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Haoyang Li, Yuanfeng Song

Conference: The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), Spotlight (292/30709)

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VLDBJ 2026

Lexical and phrasal variability challenges in text-to-visualization

Towards Robust and Interactive Text-to-Visualization Translation: Enhancing Model Robustness and Mitigating Ambiguity in Natural Language Queries

Authors: Jinwei Lu^*, Wenxin Xu^*, Yuanfeng Song, Haodi Zhang, Chen Jason Zhang, Kaishun Wu, Xiaoyong Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Journal: The VLDB Journal, 2026

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ACM MM 2024 (Honourable Mention Award)

Overview of the Mixture of Modality Knowledge Experts framework

Leveraging Knowledge of Modality Experts for Incomplete Multimodal Learning

Authors: Wenxin Xu^*, Hexin Jiang^*, Xuefeng Liang

Conference: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024), Honourable Mention Award (10/4385)

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PR 2024

Overview of Utopia Label Distribution Approximation

Learning Subjective Time-series Data via Utopia Label Distribution Approximation

Authors: Xuefeng Liang, Wenxin Xu, Hexin Jiang, Ying Zhou, Yin Zhao, Jie Zhang

Journal: Pattern Recognition, 2024

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PRCV 2023

Overview of Pairwise-Emotion Data Distribution Smoothing

Pairwise-Emotion Data Distribution Smoothing for Emotion Recognition

Authors: Hexin Jiang, Xuefeng Liang, Wenxin Xu, Ying Zhou

Conference: Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2023)

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🎖 Honors and Awards

2025, Outstanding Graduates, Xidian University.
2024 & 2025, Outstanding Student, Xidian University.
2024, ACM MM 2024 Honourable Mention Award.
2024, National Scholarship.

📖 Experience

2026.01 ～ Present, Ph.D. student, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
2025.04 ～ 2025.12, Research Assistant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
2022.09 ～ 2025.06, Master’s degree, Xidian University.
2018.09 ～ 2022.06, Bachelor’s degree, Xidian University.