About

Bairui Su is a digital creative toolmaker who is interested in data visualization, creative coding, and interactive systems. Recently, Bairui Su is working on the thesis project Recho for ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) at NYU, which has been accepted by CHI 2026 and UIST 2026!

Bairui Su used to be a software engineer (data visualization developer) at Ant Group and led the development of AntV G2 5.0, an open source JavaScript framework for interactive and exploratory visualization.

Publications

Aug 2026

“Live in the Editor”: Low-Tech In-Situ Feedback for Plain-Text Live Programming, Bairui Su, Luyu Cheng, April Yi Wang, Lionel Parreaux. Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '26), 2026.

Aug 2026

Fil: Bridging the Last Mile of Interactive Programs through Agent-Mediated Publishing, Bairui Su, Jinhee Shim. Adjunct Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '26), Poster, 2026.

Aug 2026

Finding Trees in Names: Planting Personal Data into an Infinite Collective Landscape, Bairui Su, Chloe Yan. Adjunct Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '26), Demo, 2026.

Feb 2026

“Live in the Editor”: Low-Tech In-Situ Feedback for Plain-Text Live Programming, Luyu Cheng, Bairui Su, Lionel Parreaux. Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26), Poster, 2026.

Feb 2026

G2: A customizable web-based framework for authoring interactive visualizations, Bairui Su, Zhiwei Wang, Zhifeng Lin, Xiaojuan Liao, Zihan Zhou, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen. Visual Informatics, 2026. ScienceDirect.

Oct 2020

CA2: Cyber Attacks Analytics, Luyu Cheng, Bairui Su, Yumeng Xue, Xiaoyu Liu, Yunhai Wang. IEEE VIS VAST Challenge 2020. Honorable Mention.

Exhibitions

May 2026

BioGlyph, Bairui SU. ITP Spring Show 2026.

Apr 2026

We want to live in the editor forever, Bairui SU, Luyu Cheng. CHI 2026 Posters.

Dec 2025

Shanhai Puppet, Bairui SU. ITP Winter Show 2025.

May 2025

Find the Tree in Your Name, Bairui SU. ITP Spring Show 2025.

Dec 2024

Rolling Mail Service, hebin rachel shin, Bairui SU. ITP Winter Show 2024.

Talks

May 2026

Coding on Principle, ITP Thesis, New York University, NY, USA

Oct 2025

A Lighter Way to Code, Open Source Club, New York University, NY, USA

May 2024

Auto Palette Algorithm, Industrial Design, Zhejiang University, HZ, China

Nov 2023

Visualize Asian Games 2023, Yunqi Conference, HZ, China

Nov 2023

How to Make Charts Tell Stories, AntV 1122 Conference, HZ, China

Nov 2022

First-Class Citizen in Visualization, ZaoZao Tech Talk, HZ, China

Sep 2022

G2 5.0 and its First-Class Citizen, AntV Group Tech Talk, HZ, China

Jul 2022

GraphInsight: Graph Analysis, ChinaVis 2022 Challenge, XN, China

Jul 2021

Visualize Sophie's World by AntV, AntV Group Tech Talk, HZ, China

Aug 2019

Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis, ChinaVis 2019 Challenge, CD, China

Education

2026

M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications, New York University, USA

2020

B.E. Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China

Employment

2025 – 2026

ml5.js Researcher, New York University, NY, USA

2025 – 2026

Web App Developer, New York University, NY, USA

2021 – 2024

Software Engineer (Data Visualization Developer), Ant Group, HZ, China

Fall 2020

Software Engineer, OF Course, SH, China

Teaching

2024 – 2026

Code!, Graduate Assistant, New York University, USA

Spring 2023

The Grammar of Graphics, Instructor, Tongji University, China

Spring 2020

Data Visualization, Teaching Assistant, Shandong University, China

Awards

Aug 2022

National 2nd prize for Graph Visualization for ChinaVis 2022 Data Challenge

Aug 2020

Honorable Mentions for Streamlined Analysis for VIS 2020 VAST Challenge

Jun 2020

National 3rd prize for 3D Game for WeChat Mini Game Competition

May 2020

National 3rd prize for Public Opinion Analysis for Alibaba's Covid-19 Competition

Aug 2019

National 2nd prize for Spatial-Temporal Analysis ChinaVis 2020 Challenge