1. Paper 'Understanding Lay Users’ Trust on Machine Translation' accepted to EMNLP 2025. 2. Paper 'The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading' accepted to CHI 2025. 3. Paper 'Assisting International Migrants with Everyday Information Seeking: From the Providers’ Lens' accepted to iConference 2024. 4. Awarded the Wylie Dissertation Fellowship from UMD’s Graduate School.
Research Experience
1. Research project: Understanding and supporting information practices of immigrants in the U.S. 2. Research project: Exploring how immigrants interact with news using an LLM-based chatbot. 3. Research project: Designing language technologies to support collaboration in globally distributed teams.
Education
Ph.D. candidate at the College of Information, University of Maryland, College Park; Advisor: Dr. Ge Gao. B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Background
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Specializes in emerging technologies that support cross-lingual communication, particularly focusing on information practices of immigrants in the U.S. and collaboration among globally distributed teams.
Miscellany
Hobbies: Hiking, biking, and swimming. Feel free to reach out if you live in the Washington metropolitan area and are interested in outdoor activities.