School of Information Sciences

Yilin Xia

Yilin Xia

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

Research focus

My work focuses on data management, data visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning, where I aim to address data challenges using declarative approaches.

Honors and Awards

  • GitHub Secure Open-Source Fund, 2025
  • Google Academic Research Grants, 2025
  • Outstanding Review, IEEE VIS, 2023
  • NumFOCUS Small Development Grants, 2023
  • Google CS Research Mentorship Program Scholar, 2022

Publications & Papers

Skvortsov, E., Mirjafari, S., Garg, O., Xia, Y., Bowers, S., & Ludäscher, B. (2025). LogicLM: Robust Application of Large Language Models with Logic Programming for Data Analytics. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT).

Xia, Y., Bowers, S., Li, L., & Ludäscher, B. (2024). Reconciling Conflicting Data Curation Actions: Transparency Through Argumentation. International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC).

Xia, Y., Odekerken, D., Bowers, S., & Ludäscher, B. (2024). Layered visualization of argumentation frameworks. In Computational Models of Argumentation (COMMA).

Seo, J.*, Xia, Y.*, Lee, B., McCurry, S., & Yam, Y. J. (2024). MAIDR: Making statistical visualizations accessible with multimodal data representation. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Skvortsov, E., Xia, Y., & Ludäscher, B. (2024). Logica: Declarative Data Science for Mere Mortals. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT).

Cheng, Y. Y., & Xia, Y. (2023). A systematic review of methods for aligning, mapping, merging taxonomies in information sciences. Journal of Documentation.

Yen, C. H., Cheng, H., Xia, Y., & Huang, Y. (2023, April). CrowdIDEA: Blending Crowd Intelligence and Data Analytics to Empower Causal Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 

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