Research Interests
AI for Social Good, Human-AI Interaction, Natural Language Processing
Education
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Curriculum: Programmers are humans too, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Fairness Machine Learning, Interactive Design, Human-Centered AI
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
GSTAR in Computer Science, GPA: 3.84/4.00
China Jiliang University (CJLU) & Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences & B.Eng in Computer Science and Technology, GPA: 7.13/9.00
Thesis: Gstreamer-based Video Analysis Framework Design. Advisor: Dr. Haijun Tao & Dr. Lin Xiang
Publications
Conference
Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes in Alternate Climate Scenarios Through a ChatGPT-Driven Text Adventure
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024
Can AI Prompt Humans? Multimodal Agents Prompt Players' Game Actions and Show Consequences to Raise Sustainability Awareness
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
Academic Research Experience
(*Detailed descriptions available in the PDF CV)
University of California, San Diego
Design for San Diego (D4SD) & ProtoLab Research Assistant, UCSD Design Lab
Mentor: Prof. Steven Dow
Research on AI-supported design collaboration and dimensional scaffolding for team creativity.
University of California, Irvine
Summer Research Intern, UCI INsite
Mentor: Prof. Stacy Branham
Studied ADA Title II compliance and digital accessibility issues in university systems.
City University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant, Studio for Narrative Space
Mentor: Dr. Ray LC
Led research on a multimodal AI-driven sustainability game (CHI 2025).
City University of Hong Kong
HCIX Summer Research Program, Studio For Narrative Space
Mentor: Dr. Ray LC
Designed and evaluated an AI chatbot game for studying climate attitude change (CHI 2024).
China Jiliang University
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute of Computer Technology and Applications
Mentor: Dr. Haijun Tao & Dr. Lin Xiang
Built a real-time object detection system using Gstreamer and YOLOv5.
Auckland University of Technology
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Data Science Research Centre
Mentor: Dr. Mahsa Mohaghegh
Developed a Raspberry Pi–based robotic system for automatic ping-pong ball collection.
Industry Experience
China Mobile
AI Software Engineer Intern (NLP)
Designed a cold-start recommendation pipeline with LightGCN and content-based baselines; built feature extraction modules on Amazon Reviews’23 dataset.
Neoboard
Front-end Develop Intern
Built a user-friendly interface for a classroom workflow automation system using React, Redux, and React Router.
Functor Z
Software Develop Intern
Developed a basketball mini-app game using Uni-app and MongoDB on a cloud-based platform.
Awards and Honors
Academic Scholarship, CJLU
Merit Scholarships * 4, CJLU & AUT
Service
Teaching Assistant
Human-Centered AI (CSE 291A), UCSD Prof. Nadir Weibel, Fall 2025
Volunteer
Volunteer, CHI 2024
Volunteer, Chinese CHI 2023
Conference Reviewer
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024, 2026
Skills
Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Java, C++, R, SQL, LaTeX, MATLAB, HTML/CSS
Machine Learning & NLP: PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, Hugging Face, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NLTK, spaCy, LLaMA, BERT, GPT
Web & Game Development: React.js, Node.js, Express, Redux, Flask, JWT Auth, FastAPI, Django, Phaser, Unity (2D), TailwindCSS
Data & Design: Pandas, NumPy, Tableau, PowerBI, Kafka, Spark, Redis, MongoDB, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Tools: Git, VS Code, Notion, Cursor, Linux (Shell), AWS EC2, Azure, Firebase, Miro, Docker
Languages: Mandarin (native), English (fluent)