Hi! I'm Jiaju


I am building creative tools that empower everyone to more freely express themselves

NEWS
09/2025 Computational Scaffolding of Composition, Value, and Color for Disciplined Drawing has been accepted to UIST 2025 and received the Best Paper award.
09/2025 AmbigChat: Interactive Hierarchical Clarification for Ambiguous Open-Domain Question Answering, my internship work at Google DeepMind, has been accepted to UIST 2025.
04/2025 MoVer: Motion Verification for Motion Graphics Animations has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025 (TOG).
PUBLICATIONS
MoVer: Motion Verification for Motion Graphics Animations
Jiaju Ma and Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2025)
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Computational Scaffolding of Composition, Value, and Color for Disciplined Drawing
Jiaju Ma, Chau Vu*, Asya Lyubavina*, Catherine Liu, and Jingyi Li (*equal contribution)
UIST 2025  
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AmbigChat: Interactive Hierarchical Clarification for Ambiguous Open-Domain Question Answering
Jiaju Ma, Lei Shi, Kenneth Robertsen, and Peggy Chi
UIST 2025
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OmniQuery: Contextually Augmenting Captured Multimodal Memories to Enable Personal Question Answering
Jiahao Nick Li, Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, and Jiaju Ma
CHI 2025
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Editing Motion Graphics Video via Motion Vectorization and Transformation
Sharon Zhang, Jiaju Ma, Jiajun Wu, Daniel Ritchie, and Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
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Automated Conversion of Music Videos into Lyric Videos
Jiaju Ma, Anyi Rao, Li-Yi Wei, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Hijung Valentina Shin, and Maneesh Agrawala
UIST 2023
FocalPoint: Adaptive Direct Manipulation for Selecting Small 3D Virtual Objects
Jiaju Ma, Jing Qian, Tongyu Zhou, and Jeff Huang
IMWUT 2023
A Layered Authoring Tool for Stylized 3D Animations
Jiaju Ma, Li-Yi Wei, and Rubaiat Habib Kazi
CHI 2022  
Portalware: Free-Hand AR Drawing with a Dual-Display Smartphone-Wearable Paradigm
Jing Qian*, Tongyu Zhou*, Meredith Young-Ng*, Jiaju Ma, Angel Cheung, Xiangyu Li, Ian Gonsher, and Jeff Huang (*equal contribution)
DIS 2021
Portal-ble: Intuitive Free-hand Manipulation in Unbounded Smartphone-based Augmented Reality
Jing Qian, Jiaju Ma, Xiangyu Li, Benjamin Attal, Haoming Lai, James Tompkin, John F. Hughes, and Jeff Huang
UIST 2019
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HeyPillow: Computationally Guided Sleep Behavior Study Through Sensing
Nediyana Daskalova, Jiaju Ma, Tiffany Chen, Valerie Nguon, Jing Qian, Chonghui Chen, and Jeff Huang
WISH@CHI 2019