Chenxi Liu
Assistant professor
Computer Science
- Contact:
- Office: ECS 619 chenxil@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Computer graphics, image generation, vector graphics and 2D visual representations, sketch processing, geometry processing, human-centred creative AI tools
About Simon
Chenxi Liu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where she leads the Creative eXperience Lab (CXL). Her research develops computational foundations for understanding and supporting human visual creativity, with a focus on precise visual representations, such as vector graphics and sketches. Chenxi's recent projects include style-adapted LoRA models, 2D neural fields with learned discontinuities, and sketch processing, and she has been published at top venues including ACM SIGGRAPH North America and SIGGRAPH Asia, most recently receiving a Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH North America 2026.
Chenxi holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, where research under the supervision of Professor Alla Sheffer focused on processing freehand sketches. Before joining UVic, Chenxi was a postdoctoral researcher in the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) Lab at the University of Toronto, supervised by Professor Alec Jacobson. Chenxi has interned at Adobe Research and Disney Research and was recognized as a 2022 Rising Star by ACM's Community Group, WiGRAPH, and a recipient of the Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto.