👋 Hi, I' Am

Menndy Sun

孙梦迪

I'm a master's student at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. I am currently studying and working at the iDV^x Lab with the supervisor, Prof. Nan Cao. I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University in 2020.

🎓My research interests focus on Data Visualization and Data-driven Storytelling;
💻 Web Software Engineer; 📸 Life Recoder; 🍭Sweet Tooth.

💻 Some Projects 💻

My Projects

Narrative Chart

An open-source visualization library specialized for authoring charts that facilitate data storytelling with a high-level action-oriented declarative grammar. It enables users to rapidly create expressive charts and inspires their creativity.

Pie Chart & Web Developer

Calliope·Data

An intelligent data auto-insight platform for creating, editing, and sharing your own visual data stories employs advanced AI techniques. It helps non-expert users create visual data stories through an automatic process without any technique barrier.

Web Developer

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H5 Developer

MUMO

基于processing、Arduino和Leap Motion的音乐可视化交互应用

Developer & UI Designer

FIYTICAL

In order to measure time more accurately, we invented clocks and watches. A watch is like a container, and time is like a pile of scattered particles We put the time in a container and normalize it, to understand time better.

Web Developer & UI Designer

Flowing Paint

A platform to interact with world-famous paintings. Every abstract painting has its color, explore it together. It uses Java as its programming language.

Web Developer & UI Designer

Hypnosis

It uses fractal algorithms to create your own dreams. You can move or click your mouse to interact with it.

P5.js

📖 Recent publications

Publications

Erato: Cooperative Data Story Editing via Fact Interpolation
Mengdi Sun, Ligan Cai, Weiwei Cui, Yanqiu Wu, Yang Shi, Nan Cao
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2022)
Paper: Link | Material: Website

Supporting Expressive and Faithful Pictorial Visualization Design with Visual Style Transfer
Yang Shi, Pei Liu, Siji Chen, Mengdi Sun Nan Cao
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2022)
Paper: Link | Material: Website

Calliope·Data: An Intelligent Visual Data Story Generation Platform for Mass
Nan Cao, Danqing Shi, Yanqiu Wu, Xinyue Xu, Fuling Sun, Yi Guo, Nan Chen, Mengdi Sun, Xingyu Lan, Pei Liu, Siji Chen, Ligan Cai, Yang Shi, Qing Chen
ChinaVis Poster 2021 | 🏆Honorable Mention
Poster: Link | Award: Link

✨ SOME MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCES ✨

I like trying different things and meeting different people. Here are my school experiences and social practice.

Jiangnan University

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Major in Digital Media Technology, Programmer

2016.09 - 2020.06
2020.09 - Current

Tongji University

College of Design and Innovation
Major in Artificial Intelligence and Data Design, Web Developer & UI Designer
Program Director
at school's Broadcast Production Center

2017 - 2018
2018.07 - 08

Journalist
On local television
Web Developer
in Zhejiang University

2019.08 - 09
Party Building Assistant
in Jiangnan University

2019 - 2020