Carol Zhang

Ph.D. Student @ FSU

I am a Ph.D. student at Florida State University, advised by Prof. Yifang Wang.

My research focuses on Human-AI Interaction and AI for Social Good, with an emphasis on designing and evaluating conversational agents and multi-agent systems that support behavior change and human decision-making.

Previously, I worked with Prof. Steven Dow at UCSD Design Lab and with Dr. Ray LC at CityU Hong Kong, resulting in a co-first-authored paper at CHI’24 and a first-authored paper at CHI’25.

I am open to research collaborations. Feel free to reach out at qiz065@ucsd.edu.

HAI for Science Generative AI AI Agents

Publications

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

Preprints

2026 May
AGWM Publication

AGWM: Affordance-Grounded World Models for Environments with Compositional Prerequisites

Qinshi Zhang, Weipeng Deng, Zhihan Jiang, Jiaming Qu, Qianren Li, Weitao Xu, Ray LC

arXiv preprint, 2026

2026 Apr
Mixed-Initiative Context Publication

Mixed-Initiative Context: Structuring and Managing Context for Human-AI Collaboration

Haichang Li, Qinshi Zhang, Piaohong Wang, Zhicong Lu

arXiv preprint, 2026

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