Alex Yang
Scholar

Alex Yang

Google Scholar ID: S0-ypDoAAAAJ
Georgia Institute of Technology
Human-Computer InteractionData VisualizationVR/AR
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
561
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
15
 
Co-authors
13
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • LitForager: An immersive sensemaking system for literature exploration that visualizes academic papers as a 3D network, enabling multimodal interactions like gesture and voice.
  • 3D Gaussian Splat Vulnerabilities: The first study to uncover how adversarial attacks can distort 3D Gaussian Splatting, demonstrating subtle manipulations that deceive both human viewers and AI perception systems.
  • Diffusion Explainer: The first interactive visualization tool that explains how Stable Diffusion turns text prompts into images, integrating a visual overview with interactive widgets.
  • DiffusionDB: The first large-scale text-to-image prompt dataset containing 14 million images generated by Stable Diffusion, providing research opportunities in generative models, deepfake detection, and interaction tools.
  • Argo Scholar: An interactive literature exploration visualization system that runs in web browsers, allowing incremental visualization of literature networks with force-directed layout.
  • CardiacAR: An iOS Augmented Reality application for interactive surgical planning on mobile devices, offering omni-directional slicing of 3D heart models and virtual annotation.
Research Experience
  • Collaborated with researchers, developers, designers, and scientists from Goldman Sachs, Adobe, Duke University, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Education
  • PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, working under the supervision of Yalong Yang and Polo Chau.
Background
  • Research interests include spatial computing techniques, HCI principles in multi-dimensional data analysis; focuses on innovative immersive visualization frameworks and cross-reality collaboration systems.