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
Courses currently teaching
Advisors
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).