I am a senior algorithm engineer at the ATH department of Alibaba Cloud, focusing on LLM application.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Zhejiang University under the supervision of Prof. Wei Chen. Before that, I earned my B.E. in Software Engineering at Zhejiang University. I also worked as a research assistant at XLang Lab, the University of Hong Kong, with Prof. Tao Yu.

My research interests broadly lie in the intersection of large language models, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction. I design and implement novel visualization systems that enable users to interact with data and machines more efficiently. Recently, I am specifically interested in AI-assisted data analysis, focusing on leveraging advanced generative AI techniques (especially LLMs/VLMs) to augment data engineering, science, and analysis workflows.

Besides, I am passionate about photography and traveling.

📝 Publications

TVCG
VisPilot

Exploring Multimodal Prompt for Visualization Authoring with Large Language Models

Zhen Wen*, Luoxuan Weng*, Yinghao Tang, Runjin Zhang, Yuxin Liu, Bo Pan, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen (*Equal contribution)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026

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ACL
IGenBench

IGenBench: Benchmarking the Reliability of Text-to-Infographic Generation

Yinghao Tang, Xueding Liu, Boyuan Zhang, Tingfeng Lan, Yupeng Xie, Jiale Lao, Yiyao Wang, Haoxuan Li, Tingting Gao, Bo Pan, Luoxuan Weng, Xiuqi Huang, Minfeng Zhu, Yingchaojie Feng, Yuyu Luo, Wei Chen

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

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AAAI
DeepResearcher

Multimodal DeepResearcher: Generating Text-Chart Interleaved Reports from Scratch with Agentic Framework

Zhaorui Yang, Bo Pan, Han Wang, Yiyao Wang, Xingyu Liu, Luoxuan Weng, Yingchaojie Feng, Haozhe Feng, Minfeng Zhu, Bo Zhang, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

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ICDE
DataLab

DataLab: A Unified Platform for LLM-Powered Business Intelligence

Luoxuan Weng, Yinghao Tang, Yingchaojie Feng, Zhuo Chang, Ruiqin Chen, Haozhe Feng, Chen Hou, Danqing Huang, Yang Li, Huaming Rao, Haonan Wang, Canshi Wei, Xiaofeng Yang, Yuhui Zhang, Yifeng Zheng, Xiuqi Huang, Minfeng Zhu, Yuxin Ma, Bin Cui, Peng Chen, Wei Chen

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2025

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TVCG
InsightLens

InsightLens: Augmenting LLM-Powered Data Analysis with Interactive Insight Management and Navigation

Luoxuan Weng, Xingbo Wang, Junyu Lu, Yingchaojie Feng, Yihan Liu, Haozhe Feng, Danqing Huang, Wei Chen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of PacificVis), 2025

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IVI
GPTDetector

Towards an Understanding and Explanation for Mixed-Initiative Artificial Scientific Text Detection

Luoxuan Weng, Shi Liu, Hang Zhu, Jiashun Sun, Kam Kwai Wong, Dongming Han, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen

Information Visualization, 2024

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COLM
OpenAgents

OpenAgents: An Open Platform for Language Agents in the Wild

Tianbao Xie*, Fan Zhou*, Zhoujun Cheng*, Peng Shi*, Luoxuan Weng*, Yitao Liu*, Toh Jing Hua, Junning Zhao, Qian Liu, Che Liu, Leo Z. Liu, Yiheng Xu, Hongjin Su, Dongchan Shin, Caiming Xiong, Tao Yu (*Equal contribution)

Conference on Language Modeling, 2024

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TVCG
SPROUT

SPROUT: an Interactive Authoring Tool for Generating Programming Tutorials with the Visualization of Large Language Models

Yihan Liu, Zhen Wen, Luoxuan Weng, Ollie Woodman, Yi Yang, Wei Chen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

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TVCG
DNN

Visual Diagnostics of Parallel Performance in Training Large-Scale DNN Models

Yating Wei, Zhiyong Wang, Zhongwei Wang, Yong Dai, Gongchang Ou, Han Gao, Haitao Yang, Yue Wang, Caleb Chen Cao, Luoxuan Weng, Jiaying Lu, Rongchen Zhu, Wei Chen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023

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TVCG
Situated

Effects of View Layout on Situated Analytics for Multiple-View Representations in Immersive Visualization

Zhen Wen, Wei Zeng, Luoxuan Weng, Yihan Liu, Mingliang Xu, Wei Chen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of VIS), 2023

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📽 Projects

openagents

OpenAgents (4.8k+ github stars, 7.5k+ demo users)

Open-source implementation of language agents:

  • Data Agent: code interpreter augmented with data tools
  • Plugins Agent: 200+ plugins for daily life
  • Web Agent: autonomous web browsing

Code | Demo | Docs | Twitter

💻 Experiences

  • 2025.02 - 2025.07, Research Engineer, HiThink, Hangzhou
  • 2024.06 - 2024.12, Research Engineer, Tencent, Shenzhen
  • 2023.06 - 2023.11, Research Assistant, XLang Lab, Hong Kong
  • 2021.08 - 2021.12, Research Engineer, Huawei, Hangzhou
  • 2020.07 - 2020.10, Software Engineer, Tencent, Shenzhen

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding PhD Graduate of Zhejiang University, 2026
  • Tencent Scholarship, 2025
  • First Prize in Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2023-2024
  • Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University, 2021
  • Excellent Engineering Scholarship, 2021
  • Zhejiang University Scholarship, 2017-2020
  • Academic Excellence Award, 2017-2020
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award, 2017

📖 Educations

  • Ph.D. @ZJU, Computer Engineering, 2021-2026
  • B.E. @ZJU, Software Engineering, 2017-2021