Chin Tseng
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021 - Present
Advisor: Professor Danielle Szafir
M.S. in Computer Science
New York University
2018 - 2020
B.S. in Computer Science
National Tsing Hua University
2014 - 2018
Experience
PhD Research Intern
Epsilon
Summer 2025
Designed and implemented interactive visualization components with React and D3 for large-scale marketing analytics dashboards, translating real-world business data into actionable visual analysis tools.
Software Engineer Intern
Spruce
June 2019 – Dec. 2019
Developed automated web crawling and NLP-assisted title search systems that reduced manual processing time from days to minutes and significantly increased operational efficiency and revenue impact.
Software Engineer Intern
GoFreight
Mar. 2018 – Aug. 2018
Built a React Native warehouse management mobile application with barcode scanning and real-time inventory synchronization used by over a thousand logistics staff in production environments.
Software Engineer Intern
VMFive
July 2015 – Aug. 2015
Developed an Android application integrating playable mobile ad technology that enabled users to trial games instantly without installation.
Research Interests
Selected Publications
View AllRedundant Is Not Redundant: Automating Efficient Categorical Palettes Design Unifying Color & Shape Encodings with CatPAW
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of ACM CHI’ 2026: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
Uncovering How Scatterplot Features Skew Visual Class Separation
Chin Tseng*, S. Sandra Bae*, Takanori Fujiwara*, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of ACM CHI’ 2025: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024; published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of EG/VGTC European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2024, Odense, Denmark, 2024
Measuring Categorical Perception in Color-Coded Scatterplots
Chin Tseng, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of ACM CHI’ 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
Current Status
On the Job Market