Sitong Pan

Sitong Pan

Researcher & Generative AI

University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, MN

I am a PhD student in Computer Science advised by Professor Qianwen Wang in the University of Minnesota. Previously, I received my B.S. degree in Geography Information Science from Zhejiang University.

My current research interest focues on Generative AI, including auto-regression based and diffusion-style models for text, image and viedo generation and understanding.

Links
Email · GitHub · Scholar

News

  • 2026-04

    One paper to appear in FAccT 2026

  • 2026-01

    TrajectoryCurer to appear in PacificVis 2026

  • 2025-07

    ReSpark to appear in UIST 2025

  • 2025-06

    Graduated from Zhejiang University

  • 2025-01

    TutorUp to appear in CHI 2025 🌸

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Publications

  • TrajectoryCurer: Visual Analysis of Trajectory Data Quality
    2026 · IEEE PacificVis 2026

    TrajectoryCurer: Visual Analysis of Trajectory Data Quality

    Xiaodan Miao, Sitong Pan, Shifu Chen, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu

    Paper
  • TutorUp: What if your students were simulated? Training tutors to address engagement challenges in online learning
    2025 · ACM CHI 2025

    TutorUp: What if your students were simulated? Training tutors to address engagement challenges in online learning

    Sitong Pan, Robin Schmucker, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Salome Aguilar Llanes, Fernanda Albo Alarcón, Hangxiao Zhu, Adam Teo, Meng Xia

    Paper
  • ReSpark: Leveraging Previous Data Reports as References to Generate New Reports with LLMs
    2025 · ACM UIST 2025

    ReSpark: Leveraging Previous Data Reports as References to Generate New Reports with LLMs

    Yuan Tian, Chuhan Zhang, Xiaotong Wang, Sitong Pan, Weiwei Cui, Haidong Zhang, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu

    Paper
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Experience

  1. 2025.8 — Present Minneapolis, MN

    PhD Student

    University of Minnesota

  2. 2024.7 — 2024.9 College Station, TX

    Research Assistant

    Texas A&M University

  3. 2021.8 — 2025.6 Hangzhou, Zhejiang

    Undergraduate Student

    Zhejiang University

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Misc

  • Currently Reading
    《Love in a Fallen City》 Eileen Chang
  • Listening To
    Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol.4
    Fox Stevenson - Sunk Cost Fallacy
  • Side Project
    Multimodal Model Steering
    Fine-tuning for Diffusion Language Models
  • Hobby
    Electronic Guitar and Bass
    Bouldering
    Minecraft
  • Fun Fact
    A lot of my bouldering friends are twins and so am I
  • Currently Learning
    JEPA series from Yann LeCun