Qinshi Carol Zhang- CV

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

Sept. 2024 — Dec. 2025 (Expected)

Current Curriculum: Programmers are humans too, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Interactive Design

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

GSTAR in Computer Science, GPA: 3.84/4.00

Sept. 2023 — Jun. 2024

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

Sept. 2019 — Jun. 2023

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

Suifang Zhou*, Latisha Besariani Hendra*, Qinshi Zhang*, Jussi Holopainen, Ray LC†

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024

PDF Code ★ Video Project 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}
        }

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}/Users/carol/Desktop/CHI25/GameSustainability_CHI_25__Clean_Version_.pdf
            }

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 (VLHCC) 2025

Video PDF Code ★ BibTeX

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

Academic Research Experience

(*Detailed descriptions available in the PDF CV)

University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA

Design for San Diego (D4SD) & ProtoLab Research Assistant, UCSD Design Lab

Nov. 2024 — Present

Mentor: Prof. Steven Dow

Research on AI-supported design collaboration and dimensional scaffolding for team creativity.

University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA

Summer Research Intern , UCI INsite

June. 2024 — Sept. 2024

Mentor: Prof. Stacy Branham

Studied ADA Title II compliance and digital accessibility issues in university systems.

City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, CN

Research Assistant, Studio for Narrative Space

June. 2024 — Sept. 2024

Mentor: Dr. Ray LC

Led research on a multimodal AI-driven sustainability game (CHI 2025).

City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, CN

HCIX Summer Research Program, Studio For Narrative Space

June. 2023 — Sept. 2023

Designed and evaluated an AI chatbot game for studying climate attitude change (CHI 2024).

China Jiliang UniversityHangzhou, CN

Undergraduate Research, Institute of Computer Technology and Applications

Sept. 2022 — May. 2023

Dr. Haijun Tao & Dr. Lin Xiang

Built a real-time object detection system using Gstreamer and YOLOv5.

Auckland University of TechnologyAuckland, NZ

Undergraduate Research, Data Science Research Centre

Sept. 2022 — Dec. 2022

Mentor: Dr. Mahsa Mohaghegh

Developed a Raspberry Pi–based robotic system for automatic ping-pong ball collection.

Industry Experience

China MobileShenZhen, CN

AI Software Engineer Intern (NLP)

June 2025 — Sept. 2025

Designed a cold-start recommendation pipeline with LightGCN and content-based baselines; built feature extraction modules and evaluation framework on Amazon Reviews’23 dataset.

Neoboard Riverside, CA

Front-end Develop Intern

April 2024 — June 2024

Built a user-friendly interface for a classroom workflow automation system using React, Redux, and React Router.

Functor Z Hangzhou, CN

Software Develop Intern

June 2022 — Sept. 2022

Developed a basketball mini-app game using Uni-app and MongoDB on a cloud-based platform.

Awards and Honors

2nd Prize,17th E-commerce Competition, Zhejiang Province(Class A) 2022

HCIA Big Data Engineer Certificate2020

Academic Scholarship, CJLU2020

Merit Scholarships * 4, CJLU & AUT2019-2023

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

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2026

Skills

Programming Languages

Python, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Java, C++, R, SQL, LaTeX, MATLAB, HTML/CSS

Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing

PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NLTK, spaCy, SentenceTransformers, ConvAI, Groq, OpenAI API, LLaMA, BERT, GPT

Web & Game Development

React.js, Node.js, Express, Redux, Flask, JWT Auth, FastAPI, Django, Phaser, Unity (2D), RESTful APIs, WebGL, TailwindCSS

Data Analysis & Visualization

Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau, PowerBI, Kafka, Spark, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Heroku

Design & User Experience

Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, Storyboard Pro

Tools & Platforms

Git, Visual Studio Code, Notion, Cursor, Linux (Shell/Ubuntu), AWS EC2, Azure, Firebase, Miro, Docker, Postman, WordPress, Vercel, VMware, VirtualBox

Languages

Mandarin (native), English (fluent)