Committed to bring Art and CS together.
I am currently a research associate at the University of Michigan, working in visual computing with Prof. Andrew Owens.
My research interest lies in the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, AI and Vision & Graphics.
I am particularly interested in enabling creation and design with computational methods.
I am also working with Prof. Eytan Adar on interesting projects concerning human-AI collaboration.
I obtained my MSc from UMSI in the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and BSc from SCS in Fudan University.
Working papers and Publications
[Accepted] Exploring Bridges Between Algorithmic and AI-generated Art
Jiaqi Wu, Eytan Adar
The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), part of evo* 2025
[Preprint] viz2viz: Prompt-driven stylized visualization generation using a diffusion model Jiaqi Wu, John Joon Young Chung, Eytan Adar.
Characterizing and Understanding the Development of Social Computing through DBLP:
A Data-Driven Analysis
Jiaqi Wu, Bodian Ye, Qingyuan Gong, Atte Oksanen, Cong Li, Jingjing Qu, Felicia F. Tian, Xiang
Li, Yang Chen.
Journal of Social Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 287-302
Recent Research
Creative Coding and Visual Generative AI
Explore how to amplify creative coding process by connecting real-world inspirations, vague intents, and abstract patterns
MAAE: Mask-Guided Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Explored a way of enabling soft conditions on multiple objects layout in stable diffusion
Built Upon Attend and Excite pipeline
Diffusion Model in Data Visualization
A general recipe with specific workflows and augmented diffusion pipelines using PyTorch to support the creation of stylized visualization
Understanding the Development of Social Computing through DBLP: A Research Bibilometric Analysis
A detailed analysis of social computing by proposing and implementing a systematic workflow for scientific publication analysis
Selected Projects
GenP5 Algorithm
Methods and art gallery for animated algorithm visualization
Visual Text Analyzer: Creative image generation
Custom GPT enabling creative image generation from input text paragraph
Stylized brush python p5
A stylized brush application allowing painting with brush stylization using python p5 and dreamstudio stable diffusion (SD) api
Simple Text Inpainting System
Provide the idea, dataset, simple implimentation and evaluation of text inpainting
HCI Research on Shape Pronto : Shape based Augmented Reality Effects
Conducted a user study to extract the design space of Shape Pronto made by Reality Composer
AR for street art
AR app design and prototype for street art creation and collaboration, by Lens Studio and Simple paint AR
Novel latent-based visual AI system for enhancing human creativity
A research proposal
AR for designer
AR app design and prototype for amplifying designer productivity, by Lens Studio
?2img: Ambiguity visualization
Extracting the ambiguity of the text by identifying words with different meanings and words that can easily be misspelled
lanGuage
Communication between different languages through visual elements
Information Retrieval: Small Search Engine on Social Computing Publication
Used Pyterrier, learing to rank model to design and implement a search engine for high quality social computing publications
Statistics and Data Analysis: Dating App User Profile Analysis
Used R language to conduct a statistical analysis on open source user profile data from Kaggle
(Group Project) Interaction Design: Mobile Application For Fitness Activities
Used Figma to design and implemented the prototype of a mobile application for nearby fitness activities