Carol Zhang

CS Master's Student @ UC San Diego'25

Hi, I'm Carol Zhang. I'm currently a 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 users’ environmental attitudes and behaviors.

I have worked 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’24 and a first-authored paper at CHI’25.

Recently, I am actively learning Reinforcement Learning and World Modeling.

I am happy to collaborate or just chat about research, my email is qiz065@ucsd.edu.

Other Curiosity

Beyond above, I also like exploring psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, and social sciences in my spare time, and I am particularly curious about how insights from these fields can inform my own research.

I believe many impactful research ideas emerge not from incremental progress within a single field, but from cross-disciplinary connections.

🤝 AI for Social Good 👥 Human-AI Interaction 🌍 Environmental Behavior Change 🎯 Serious Game Design 💭 NLP & Conversational Agents 🗺️ World Model

Papers

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

2025 Aug
FD Publication

Frontend Diffusion: Empowering Self-Representation of Researchers and Designers with Multi-agent System

Zijian Ding, Qinshi Zhang, Mohan Chi, Ziyi Wang

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2025

2025 Jan
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 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025

2024 May
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

Projects

2024 Nov
Multimodal News RecSys

Multimodal News Recommendation

Qinshi Zhang, et al.

Focus: MMGCN vs. Content-only strategies

2024 Jun
D4SD 2024 Publication

Design for San Diego 2024

Qinshi Zhang (Web Development Lead)

UCSD Design Lab Initiative

News

2025.09
I will attend NeurIPS'25 (Dec 2–7, San Diego Convention Center).
2025.08
Our paper, Frontend Diffusion, has been accepted at IEEE VL/HCC 2025!
2025.01
Our paper, Can AI Prompt Humans, has been fully 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!
2024.01
Our Paper Eternagram has been accepted to CHI 2024!.
2023.11
Served as a Volunteer at Chinese CHI 2023.
2023.07
Starting a research-based program at UC Irvine this September!