Experiences

I conduct computer science research in human-computer interactions, information visualization, natural langauge processing, and AI4Science. 

Academia Experience

University of Pennsylvania - Autonomous HCI Research. 

Advisor: Prof. Andrew Head

Position: Fully-funded Research Intern

Duration:  Incoming (Summer 2026)

Research Areas: AI Agents, AI4Research, Programming Language Design, Human-AI Collaboration.

I am a research intern at the Penn HCI Group, advised by Dr. Andrew Head. My research direction is autonomous research for human-computer interaction. I'm currently developing an automatic evaluation tool for programming language usability with simulated users. In this project, I developed a cognitive-aware coder agent to simulate programmers' behavior, an interactive UI to facilitate sensemaking processes for programming traces, a dataset incorporates real-world human programming traces for benchmarking, and a crowdsourcing platform for programming trace collections. 

Northwestern University - Human-AI Complementary for Scientific Research. 

Advisor: Prof. Jessica R Hullman

Position: Funded NLP Research Intern

Duration: May 2026 - Present

Research Areas: AI Agents, AI4Science, Trustworthy AI, Natural Language Processing. 

I am a research intern at the Northwestern MU Collective Group, advised by Dr. Jessica Hullman and Ziyang Guo, PhD Candidate. My research direction is human-AI collaborative decision making in scientific research. I'm currently developing a benchmark and a signal modeling framework to evaluate the human-AI collaboration values through statistical modeling. In the project, I developed an end-to-end evaluation pipeline for benchmarking, a set of LLM-driven inference pipelines (agentic, claim-based, cluster-based), a large-scale data collection and processing pipeline, and a statistical modeling pipeline. 

William& Mary - Agentic AI for Scientific Research. 

Advisor: Prof. Qingyun Wang

Position: NLP Research Intern

Duration: November 2025 - Feburary 2026

Research Areas: AI Agents, AI4Science, Natural Language Processing. 

I am responsible for the technical development of an agentic system to simulate AI scientists. I am working on a multi-agentic pipeline to accelerate scientific experiment execution. I conduct computational experiments to benchmark our proposed systems and design use cases to demonstrate the usability and effectiveness of our system.  

Visual Intelligence Laboratory - Visualization for Explainable AI. 

Advisor: Prof. Qianwen Wang

Position: Research Team Lead

Duration: April 2024 - Present

Research Areas: HCI, Visualization, Human-centered AI. 

I'm a Research Team Lead at the Visual Intelligence Lab, UMNTC, where I am advised by Prof. Qianwen Wang. My primary research areas are human-computer interactions, visualization, and human-centered AI systems. I am also actively working on sub-domains such as cognitive/behavioral modeling, gamification, and educational technologies. 

As a Research Team Lead, I have successfully completed three Research and development projects and produced two full papers, one short paper, and one workshop presentation, all as first authors. My major works included an interaction tool for GNNs, a sensemaking game for LLMAS, a Python package for GNN visualization, and a cognitive modeling toolkit for scientific writing. 

Besides my scientific research work, my other responsibilities included interviewing/mentoring new members, project management, and planning. 

TURBO Telescopes Group - Crowdsourcing for Scientific Discovery

Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, UMN - Advised by Prof. Patrick Kelly and Dr. Mandeep

Position: Research Assistant(Internal Tools Development)

Offered: September 2023 - April 2024

Research Areas: Crowdsourcing for Scientific Discovery, Multimessenger Astronomy, Astrophysics.

I was responsible for the technical development of an internal crowdsourcing system for asteroid classification, which helps the training process of our machine learning algorithms. I also developed several internal tool utilities for the TURBO Telescopes, including an image processing pipeline, an internal watchdog system, and an image storage module. 

Industrial Experience

Microsoft Research Asia - Societal AI

Microsoft Research Asia

Position: Incoming Research Intern

Offered: Upcoming Spring 2027. 

iQIYI Smart - Motion Capture User Interface in VR

Beijing Dream Blossom Tech Ltd. (formerly iQIYI Smart)

Position: VR Development Intern

Offered: July 2022 - October 2022

I was responsible for the technical development of a motion capture interface in VR on the Oculus platform. I utilized tools such as Unity 3D, Blender, and OpenXR Toolkit. The project included a humanoid model integrated with inverse kinematic and a motion capture system.