Dr. Panpan Xu, is a Lead Research Scientist at Bosch Research, Sunnyvale, CA. Dr. Xu’s research interest is empowering people to understand data and communicate their insights more efficiently through the development of new interactive visualization systems and data mining algorithms. Her research spans across different areas include data visualization, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. She holds a PhD and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Zhejiang University, respectively. Her work has received Best Paper award and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at IEEE Visualization conference. Dr. Xu  has also been actively serving the research community as the program committee member and reviewer in several professional activities including IEEE VIS, IEEE PacificVis, and SIGCHI. For more information, please visit her home page: http://lliquid.github.io/homepage/