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.

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

Demo PDF Code ★

BibTeX

@article{zhang2024can,
    title={Can AI Prompt Humans? Multimodal Agents Prompt Players' Game Actions and Show Consequences to Raise Sustainability Awareness},
    author={Zhang, Qinshi and Wen, Ruoyu and Ding, Zijian and Hendra, Latisha Besariani and LC, Ray},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08486},
    year={2024}
}

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

Project Video PDF Code ★

BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhou2024eternagram,
    title={Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes Towards Climate Change Using a ChatGPT-driven Text-based Adventure},
    author={Zhou, Suifang and Hendra, Latisha Besariani and Zhang, Qinshi and Holopainen, Jussi and LC, RAY},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
    pages={1--23},
    year={2024}
}

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

Zijian Ding, Qinshi Zhang, Qinshi Zhang, ZIYI WANG

Video PDF Code ★

BibTeX

@article{zhang2024frontend,
    title={Frontend Diffusion: Empowering Self-Representation of Junior Researchers
        and Designers Through Agentic Workflows},
    author={Ding, Zijian, Zhang, Qinshi, Chi, Mohan, ZIYI WANG},
    journal={arXiv e-prints},
    pages={arXiv--2408},
    year={2024}
}