Wei Liu (刘薇)

(“薇” [wēi] is a Chinese character referring to a small, resilient wild herb.)

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Chris North and Dr. Rebecca Faust. I also hold an M.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech. My research focuses on designing interactive and explainable visual analytics systems for text data. I study how people interpret machine-learned text embeddings and develop methods that make these representations more explainable, and steerable.

More Broadly, I work in Visual Analytics, Explainable AI, and Human–AI Collaboration, with the goal of helping analysts better understand, explore, and guide AI-powered text analysis.

• Email: wliu3@vt.edu