Her research interests include visual text analytics, visual social analytics, visual model analytics, and text mining. She has published over 40 refereed papers in the leading journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE InfoVis, IEEE VAST, KDD, and WWW. Shixia is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and on the editorial board of Information Visualization. She is the papers co-chair of IEEE VAST 2016 and 2017 and was the program co-chair of PacifcVis 2014 and VINCI 2012. She was the guest editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and Tsinghua Science and Technology. Shixia received honorable mention awards at ACM CIKM 2009 and IEEE VAST 2014.