Curriculum Vitae

Education

2021 - Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Johannes Kepler University Linz
2019 - 2021

M.Sc., with Distinction in Interactive Digital Media

Trinity College, the University of Dublin
2015 - 2019

B.A. in Film and Journalism

Communication University of China, Nanjing
2022

Visiting Student in Computer Science

TU Wien
2017 - 2018

Visiting Student in Media Production

Coventry University, United Kingdom

2021 - 2025

University Assistant/Doctoral Researcher

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Computer Graphics
2021 - 2022

Research Assistant

Peking University, Digital Humanities Centre
2020

Research Fellow

New York University, Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts
2020

Media Specialist

New York University, Shanghai, Room 100 Art Gallery

⭐ Honorable Mention Award -> Günter Wallner, Letian Wang, and Claire Dormann. 2023. Visualizing the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Gameplay using Storyline Visualization: A Study with League of Legends. Proc. ACM Hum.- Comput. Interact. 7, CHI PLAY, Article 412 (November 2023), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611058
Letian Wang, Claire Dormann, and Günter Wallner. 2025. Player Perception Matters: Insights into the Use of Esports Live Companion Tools (FDG '25, accepted).
Letian Wang, Claire Dormann, and Günter Wallner. 2024. A Feature Comparison Study of Live Companion Tools for Esports Games. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649921.3650004
Tong Wei, Yuchen Sang, Shufen Chen, Letian Wang, Rui Wang, Qi Huang, Jun Wang. 2022. WebGIS Approach of Entity-oriented Search to Visualize Historical and Cultural Events, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford Academic. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac002
Chen Wu-Wei, Sun Yunke, Wang Letian, Zhu Yanru, and Xiong Haochen. 2020. Code +: cyber archiving, interactive documentary, and immersive experience for the digital heritage narratives of Asia. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Courses (SA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–114. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3415263.3419138

Conference Program Committee Member @ ACM CHI, CHI PLAY, IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) and FDG
Journal Reviewer @ Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford Press
Game Design Workshop Presenter @ JKU Science Holidays (facing high school students)
Guest Lecturer @ Game User Research Course at JKU
Publicity Chair @ VINCI 25

First Game Dev Course Ran in Upper Austria University
reported by Austrian Science Press (APA)
https://science.apa.at/power-search/10464032497089876997
Short Film Jump nominated at Birmingham Film Festival
reported by Coventry University News
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/primary-news/student-productions-nominated-for-film-festival-awards-/