Qinshi (Carol) Zhang


Hi, I'm Carol Zhang. I'm currently a first-year Computer Science Master student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).


My main research interests focus on AI for Social Good and Human-AI Interaction.

I have designed and developed conversational agents leveraging NLP techniques to evaluate and intervene user's environmental attitudes and behaviors.

Currently, I'm working with Prof. Steven Dow at UCSD Design Lab. I also have worked with Dr.Ray LC at HK CityU, resulting in a co-first authored paper published at CHI 2024 and a first authored paper at CHI2025.


Featured Publications

Note: * indicates equal contribution; † indicates the corresponding author.


EcoEcho Publication

Can AI Prompt Humans? Multimodal Agents Prompt Players' Game Actions and Show Consequences to Raise Sustainability Awareness

Qinshi Zhang, Ruoyu Wen, Zijian Ding, Latisha Besariani Hendra, Ray LC†

CHI 2025

Etergram Publication

Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes in Alternate Climate Scenarios Through a ChatGPT-Driven Text Adventure

Suifang Zhou*, Latisha Besariani Hendra*, Qinshi Zhang*, Jussi Holopainen, Ray LC†

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024

FD Publication

Frontend Diffusion: Empowering Self-Representation of Junior Researchers and Designers Through Agentic Workflows

Zijian Ding, Qinshi Zhang, Qinshi Zhang, ZIYI WANG

Projects

D4SD 2024 Publication

Design for San Diego 2024

Served as Web Dev Lead

jupyter

Classifying Applications, Structure, and Data Transformations in Jupyter Notebooks

Jacob Yim*, Qinshi Zhang*

An Exploratory Study

News

2025.01
Our paper, Can AI Prompt Humans, has been conditionally accepted at CHI 2025!
2024.10

Attending UIST'24, See you in Pittsburgh !

2024.09

Begin my MSCS program at UCSD this fall! See you in San Diego!

2024.06

Starting my internship at UC San Diego Design Lab this July. Excited to contribute to the D4SD 2024 program!

2024.01

Serving as a Student Volunteer at CHI 2024! See you in Hawai'i!

2023.11

Served as a Volunteer at Chinese CHI 2023.

2023.07

Starting a research-based program at UC Irvine this September!