Hello! 👋
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, working with Dr. Ting-hao ‘Kenneth’ Huang. Prior to starting my Ph.D., I earned Master’s degrees in Data Science and Linguistics, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Minnesota. During that time, I was advised by Dr. Lana Yarosh and Dr. Dongyeop Kang. I also earned a Master degree in Computer Science at the Univeristy of Notre Dame where I studied in the ND-HCI lab.
My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Social Computing. Language, as the medium of communication, serves as the social bridge among people. Standing at the crossroads of HCI, NLP and Social Computing, I am driven to explore the intricacies and nuances of communication dynamics in the evolving digital landscape. In my research journey, I am passionate about decoding how human-human or human-AI interactions unfold—how they communicate, collaborate, and sometimes conflict—and how these patterns can be harnessed to address pressing societal challenges.
Highlights
May. 2024: Presented Leveraging the Strengths of Qualitative Analysis to Improve Data Annotation at the LLMs as Research Tools workshop at CHI 2024!
Dec. 2023: 👭🏻 Presented Digital and Historical Exclusivity in Feminine Linguistics: From Nüshu to Xiaohongshu at the WiNLP workshop at EMNLP!
Oct. 2023: 🌟 Organized my first research workshop on Community-Driven AI at CSCW 2023!
Nov. 2022: 🎉 My first full paper Everyone’s Voice Matters: Quantifying Annotation Disagreement Using Demographic Information has been accepted for oral presentation at AAAI 2023 (oral acceptance rate of 10%)!
Oct. 2022: 🎉 My first paper User or Labor: An Interaction Framework in NLP has been accepted at the Workshop on Data Science with Human in the Loop at the EMNLP 2022!
Oct. 2020: 🥇 My first research poster How much is a like worth? Engagement and Retention in an Online Health Community was awarded a recognition for Outstanding Poster at the CSCW 2020(top 2 accepted posters)!