Kaiyuan Tang

Kaiyuan Tang

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Notre Dame

About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, where I received my Ph.D. and continue my research with Prof. Chaoli Wang in the ND-VIS research group. I received my B.S. degree from Xidian University in 2022.

Recent News

[2026.09] EVOLVE, ECoNGS, SciVisAgentBench, and Super-Gaussian will appear at IEEE VIS 2026, along with Lossless-INR in the short papers program!
[2026.04] SGI is selected as a Highlight Presentation at CVPR 2026!
[2025.08] NLI4VolVis is selected as Best Paper Award for IEEE VIS 2025!
[2025.07] Three papers are accepted to IEEE VIS 2025!
[2024.12] iVR-GS is accepted by IEEE PacificVis TVCG-Track 2025!
[2024.07] StyleRF-VolVis is accepted by IEEE VIS 2024!
[2023.12] ECNR is accepted by IEEE PacificVis Conference Track 2024!

Publications

Star * indicates equal contribution，underline denotes supervised undergrad student

  1. EVOLVE: Efficient Learned Volume Compression with Variable-Rate Encoding on a Cross-Domain Database VIS 26
    EVOLVE: Efficient Learned Volume Compression with Variable-Rate Encoding on a Cross-Domain Database
    Kaiyuan Tang, Maizhe Yang, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), to appear (IEEE VIS 2026).
    PDF Code Project Page
  2. ECoNGS: Efficient Compressive Neural Gaussian Splats for Volume Visualization VIS 26
    ECoNGS: Efficient Compressive Neural Gaussian Splats for Volume Visualization
    Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), to appear (IEEE VIS 2026).
    PDF Code
  3. Lossless-INR: Lossless Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations VIS Short 26
    Lossless-INR: Lossless Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations
    Kaiyuan Tang, Daniel Burke, Chaoli Wang
    Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2026 (Short Papers), to appear.
    PDF Code
  4. Super-Gaussian: Interactive Scene Editing for 3D Gaussian Splatting and NLI-Based Volume Visualization in Virtual Reality VIS 26
    Super-Gaussian: Interactive Scene Editing for 3D Gaussian Splatting and NLI-Based Volume Visualization in Virtual Reality
    Suemin Jeon, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang, Won-Ki Jeong
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), to appear (IEEE VIS 2026).
    PDF Project Page
  5. SciVisAgentSkills: Design and Evaluation of Agent Skills for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization arXiv
    SciVisAgentSkills: Design and Evaluation of Agent Skills for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization
    Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Shusen Liu, Chaoli Wang
    arXiv preprint, 2026.
    PDF Code
  6. Toward AI VIS Co-Scientists: A General and End-to-End Agent Harness for Solving Complex Data Visualization Tasks arXiv
    Toward AI VIS Co-Scientists: A General and End-to-End Agent Harness for Solving Complex Data Visualization Tasks
    Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer, Shusen Liu
    arXiv preprint, 2026.
    PDF
  7. SGI: Structured 2D Gaussians for Efficient and Compact Large Image Representation CVPR 26
    SGI: Structured 2D Gaussians for Efficient and Compact Large Image Representation
    Zixuan Pan*, Kaiyuan Tang*, Jun Xia, Yifan Qin, Lin Gu, Chaoli Wang, Jianxu Chen, Yiyu Shi
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
    PDF Code 🌟 Highlight Presentation
  8. SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents VIS 26
    SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents
    Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), to appear (IEEE VIS 2026).
    PDF Code Project Page Dataset
  9. SVLAT: Scientific Visualization Literacy Assessment Test arXiv
    SVLAT: Scientific Visualization Literacy Assessment Test
    Patrick Phuoc Do, Kaiyuan Tang, Kuangshi Ai, Chaoli Wang
    arXiv preprint, 2026.
    PDF
  10. TexGS-VolVis: Expressive Scene Editing for Volume Visualization via Textured Gaussian Splatting VIS 25
    TexGS-VolVis: Expressive Scene Editing for Volume Visualization via Textured Gaussian Splatting
    Kaiyuan Tang, Kuangshi Ai, Jun Han, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026.
    PDF
  11. MoE-INR: Implicit Neural Representation with Mixture-of-Experts for Time-Varying Volumetric Data Compression VIS 25
    MoE-INR: Implicit Neural Representation with Mixture-of-Experts for Time-Varying Volumetric Data Compression
    Jun Han, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026.
  12. NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting VIS 25
    NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026.
    PDF Code 🏆 Best Paper Award
  13. iVR-GS: Inverse Volume Rendering for Explorable Visualization via Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting PVIS 25
    iVR-GS: Inverse Volume Rendering for Explorable Visualization via Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Kaiyuan Tang, Siyuan Yao, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025.
    PDF Code
  14. Meta-INR: Efficient Encoding of Volumetric Data via Meta-Learning Implicit Neural Representation PVIS Short 25
    Meta-INR: Efficient Encoding of Volumetric Data via Meta-Learning Implicit Neural Representation
    Maizhe Yang, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (Visualization Notes), 2025.
    PDF Code
  15. StyleRF-VolVis: Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields for Expressive Volume Visualization VIS 24
    StyleRF-VolVis: Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields for Expressive Volume Visualization
    Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025.
    PDF Code
  16. ECNR: Efficient Compressive Neural Representation of Time-Varying Volumetric Datasets PVIS 24
    ECNR: Efficient Compressive Neural Representation of Time-Varying Volumetric Datasets
    Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference 2024.
    PDF Code
  17. STSR-INR: Spatiotemporal Super-Resolution for Multivariate Time-Varying Volumetric Data via Implicit Neural Representation C & G
    STSR-INR: Spatiotemporal Super-Resolution for Multivariate Time-Varying Volumetric Data via Implicit Neural Representation
    Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
    Computers & Graphics, 2024.
    PDF Code

Service

Reviewers

  • [VIS] IEEE Visualization Conference, Full Papers (2025)
  • [PVIS] IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, Journal and Conference Track (2025)