Qinshi (Carol) Zhang

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 user's 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.

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 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 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 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

Video PDF Code ★

BibTeX

@article{zhang2024frontend,
    title={Frontend Diffusion:
Empowering Self-Representation of Researchers and
Designers with Multi-agent System},
    author={Ding, Zijian, Zhang, Qinshi, Chi, Mohan, WANG, Ziyi},
    journal={arXiv e-prints},
    pages={arXiv--2408},
    year={2024}
}

Projects

Design for San Diego 2024

Served as Web Dev Lead

Visit Website About Our Team

Classifying Applications, Structure, and Data Transformations in Jupyter Notebooks

Jacob Yim*, Qinshi Zhang*

An Exploratory Study

PDF Slides

Multimodal News Recommendation

Multimodal News Recommendation: MMGCN collaborative baseline vs. content-based methods

Focus: benchmarking MMGCN vs. content-only (text + price)
with partial use of image features (CLIP) and exploring fusion strategies for cold-start.

Code Dataset (Amazon Reviews’23)

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 VLHCC 25!

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

One Paper accepted to CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

2023.11

Served as a Volunteer at Chinese CHI 2023.

2023.07

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