I am a second-year master student from School of Information Science and Technology, Shanghaitech University supervised by Prof. Quan Li, and I also obtained a B.S. degree from the same university. My research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI) and data visualization (VIS). My recent research focuses on exploring their applications in medical education.
🔥 News
- 2025.01: 🎉🎉 Our paper “Advancing Problem-Based Learning with Clinical Reasoning for Improved Differential Diagnosis in Medical Education” is conditional accepted by CHI 2025.
📝 Publications

Advancing Problem-Based Learning with Clinical Reasoning for Improved Differential Diagnosis in Medical Education
Yuansong Xu, Yuheng Shao, Jiahe Dong, Shaohan Shi, Chang Jiang, Quan Li
Conditionally Accepted by CHI 2025

LiveRetro: Visual Analytics for Strategic Retrospect in Livestream E-Commerce
Yuchen Wu, Yuansong Xu, Shenghan Gao, Xingbo Wang, Wenkai Song, Zhiheng Nie, Xiaomeng Fan, Quan Li
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This study identified computational features, formulated design requirements, and developed LiveRetro , an interactive visual analytics system. It enables comprehensive retrospective analysis of livestream e-commerce for streamers, viewers, and merchandise. LiveRetro employs enhanced visualization and time-series forecasting models to align performance features and feedback, identifying influences at channel, merchandise, feature, and segment levels.

Medillustrator: Improving Retrospective Learning in Physicians’ Continuous Medical Education via Multimodal Diagnostic Data Alignment and Representation
Yuansong Xu, Jiahe Dong, Yijie Fan, Yuheng Shao, Chang Jiang, Lixia Jin, Yuanwu Cao, Quan Li
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We introduce Medillustrator, a visual analytics system crafted to facilitate novice physicians’ retrospective learning. Our structured approach enables novice physicians to explore and review research cases at an overview level and analyze specific cases with consistent alignment of multimodal and reference data. Furthermore, physicians can record and review analyzed results to facilitate further retrospection.
📖 Educations
- 2023.09 - present, Master Student, Shanghaitech University, Shanghai
- 2019.09 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, Shanghaitech University, Shanghai