2026 Michelle X. Zhou: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	34	12091	11741	4923	4703	149	5597

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - ACM Distinguished Member
2007 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Michelle X. Zhou is affiliated with IBM in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily focusing on artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

Their recent scholarly work includes:

"Tell Me About Yourself" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
"Intelligence Augmentation: Towards Building Human-machine Symbiotic Relationship" (2021), published in AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
"From Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Intelligence Augmentation (IA): Design Principles, Potential Risks, and Emerging Issues" (2023), published in AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
"Putting the "I" in Interaction: Interactive Interfaces Personalized to Individuals" (2020), published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
"Perception is reality? Understanding user perceptions of chatbot-inferred versus self-reported personality traits" (2024), published in Computers in Human Behavior Artificial Humans

Their collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with:

Ziang Xiao
Gloria Mark
Huahai Yang
Lina Zhou
Souren Paul

Michelle X. Zhou has contributed to these publication venues multiple times:

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (3 publications)
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (2 publications)
UNC Libraries (2 publications)
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1 publication)
Computers in Human Behavior Artificial Humans (1 publication)

Their research intersects with several subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
Management Science and Operations Research

Main topics addressed in their work consist of:

AI in Service Interactions
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Data Visualization and Analytics
Personal Information Management and User Behavior
Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Human-Automation Interaction and Safety

Michelle X. Zhou has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with awards including:

ACM Senior Member in 2007
ACM Distinguished Member in 2009

Best Publications

Characterizing users' visual analytic activity for insight provenance

David Gotz;Michelle X. Zhou

469
Citations
Context preserving dynamic word cloud visualization

Weiwei Cui;Yingcai Wu;Shixia Liu;Furu Wei

404
Citations
Context-Preserving, Dynamic Word Cloud Visualization

Weiwei Cui;Yingcai Wu;Shixia Liu;Furu Wei

373
Citations
Visual task characterization for automated visual discourse synthesis

Michelle X. Zhou;Steven K. Feiner

314
Citations
TIARA: a visual exploratory text analytic system

Furu Wei;Shixia Liu;Yangqiu Song;Shimei Pan

308
Citations
LeadLine: Interactive visual analysis of text data through event identification and exploration

Wenwen Dou;Xiaoyu Wang;Drew Skau;William Ribarsky

275
Citations
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender systems

Alfred Kobsa;Michelle Zhou;Martin Ester;Yehuda Koren

256
Citations
TIARA: Interactive, Topic-Based Visual Text Summarization and Analysis

Shixia Liu;Michelle X. Zhou;Shimei Pan;Yangqiu Song

209
Citations
Tell Me About Yourself: Using an AI-Powered Chatbot to Conduct Conversational Surveys with Open-ended Questions

Ziang Xiao;Michelle X. Zhou;Q. Vera Liao;Gloria Mark

159
Citations
Trusting Virtual Agents: The Effect of Personality

Michelle X. Zhou;Gloria Mark;Jingyi Li;Huahai Yang

144
Citations
Interactive, topic-based visual text summarization and analysis

Shixia Liu;Michelle X. Zhou;Shimei Pan;Weihong Qian

142
Citations
KnowMe and ShareMe: understanding automatically discovered personality traits from social media and user sharing preferences

Liang Gou;Michelle X. Zhou;Huahai Yang

128
Citations
A probabilistic approach to reference resolution in multimodal user interfaces

Joyce Y. Chai;Pengyu Hong;Michelle X. Zhou

115
Citations
PEARL: An interactive visual analytic tool for understanding personal emotion style derived from social media

Jian Zhao;Liang Gou;Fei Wang;Michelle Zhou

113
Citations
Who will retweet this?: Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information

Kyumin Lee;Jalal Mahmud;Jilin Chen;Michelle Zhou

110
Citations
Topic and keyword re-ranking for LDA-based topic modeling

Yangqiu Song;Shimei Pan;Shixia Liu;Michelle X. Zhou

108
Citations
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia

Wen Gao;Yong Rui;Alan Hanjalic;Changsheng Xu

92
Citations
Understanding text corpora with multiple facets

Lei Shi;Furu Wei;Shixia Liu;Li Tan

91
Citations
Negotiation for automated generation of temporal multimedia presentations

Mukesh Dalal;Steven Feiner;Kathleen McKeown;Shimei Pan

90
Citations
Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge

D. Gotz;M.X. Zhou;V. Aggarwal

90
Citations
Data characterization for automatically visualizing heterogeneous information

M.X. Zhou;S.K. Feiner

89
Citations
Characterizing users’ visual analytic activity for insight provenance

D. Gotz;M.X. Zhou

86
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shixia Liu Tsinghua University

Jeffrey Nichols Apple (United States)

Weihong Qian Peking University

Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

Yangqiu Song Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Furu Wei Microsoft (United States)

David Gotz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Joyce Y. Chai University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Huamin Qu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Li Chen Hong Kong Baptist University

External Links

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