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Education

MASc Candidate in Management Science and Engineering (Current)

University of Waterloo, Canada

Sep 2023 - Apr 2026 (Expected)

Research focuses on data-driven approaches to enhance the understanding and evaluation of Haptic Experiences (HX), a subset of User Experience (UX). Developed the first standardized tool for assessing HX, enabling streamlined, reliable evaluation of haptic experiences, providing actionable insights for haptic product design.

B.S. in Psychology and Cognitive Science

Peking University, China

Sep 2019 - Jul 2023

GPA: 3.79/4; Comprehensive education across experimental, cognitive, organizational, and social psychology. Gained expertise in experimental design, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and HCI and UX research through leading or participating in around 15 studies.

Experiences

Data Science Co-op

Capital One (Canada), Toronto, Ontario

2025/4 - 2025/8

Refined a time series model for predicting customer service call volumes, achieving a 30% relative reduction in error and enabling more efficient staffing to maintain service levels at reduced cost.
Explored large language models and topic generation techniques to summarize and categorize themes in complaint calls, providing actionable insights to optimize complaint handling processes and identify emerging trends.

Data Science Co-op

TRADER Corporation (AutoTrader.ca), Toronto, Ontario

2025/1 - Present

Developing and monitoring end-to-end solutions on Canada's largest automotive marketplace, used Python and SQL on Azure, Databricks, and DataLake.
Built a Catboost classification model to predict approved car loan interest rates based on vehicle and customer data, achieving an average error below 1 and an R² over 0.85.
Defined key business metrics and developed data pipelines to quantify the impact of car ad boosting products, supporting marketing strategies and performance benchmarking.
Designed pipelines to build a model extracting vehicle features from images, supporting streamlined processing.

Lead Researcher - Development and Validation of the Haptic Experience Inventory (HXI)

HX Lab, University of Waterloo

Supervised by Prof. Oliver Schneider

2024/1 - 2024/12

Built on prior research published in CHI 2023, co-authored during a MITACS Globalink Research Internship.
Tackled the challenges in understanding and evaluating Haptic Experience (HX), a subset of UX.
Aimed to create a tool that enhances the assessment of HX in product design and evaluation.
Designed and conducted user studies with over 600 participants across in-person and online formats, using a mix of qualitative (e.g., literature review, user interviews, expert feedback, and card sorting) and quantitative (e.g., factor analysis, measurement invariance testing) methods.
Identified five key dimensions of haptic interactions that shape the user experience, offering a deeper, actionable understanding of HX. Developed the first standardized tool for assessing HX, enabling streamlined, reliable evaluation of haptic experiences, improving product design processes.
Paper accepted to CHI 2025. Tool publicly available, facilitating standardized HX assessments in product design.

Teaching Assistant

University of Waterloo

2023/9 - 2024/12

Graded assignments and conducted lab sessions and tutorials for large student cohorts in classes related to Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Algorithms, Data Analytics, Psychology.
Provided guidance on interface and interaction design projects, facilitating hands-on learning with UX techniques, including cognitive walkthroughs, user interviews, heuristic evaluations, and statistical comparisons.
For courses MSE 121 Intro to Computer Programming, MSE 211 Organizational Behaviour, MSE 240 Algorithms and Data Structures, MSE 343 Human-Computer Interaction, MSE 543 Analytics and User Experience, MSE 442 Impact of Information Systems on Organizations and Society

Lead Researcher - Exploring Individual Preferences for Chatbot 'Personality'

Personality Lab, Peking University

Supervised by Prof. Li Wang

2023/1 - 2023/8

Designed and conducted experiments to explore user preferences for chatbots with varying levels of extroversion, utilizing statistical analysis to identify key factors influencing user experience.
Developed chatbots with distinct personality traits and led user studies with 117 participants.
Applied multilevel path analysis, discovering that introverted users prefer highly extroverted chatbots in leisure contexts, while extroverted users showed no significant preference. Autonomy and emotions were identified as mediating factors.
Delivered insights to industry partners, promoting tailored chatbot solutions based on user personality traits.

Research Assistant - Optimizing AI Chatbot Responses in Emotional Scenarios

Beijing, China

2021/11 - 2023/6

Collaborative research project between Peking University and Xiaomi Inc.
Collaborated with Xiaomi Inc. to optimize chatbot responses in emotionally sensitive situations, such as stress, insomnia, and emotional distress.
Employed a data-driven approach to evaluate and refine response techniques and templates, establishing key performance metrics for rapid prototyping and iterative testing.
Analysis revealed that the optimized responses significantly improved user satisfaction and engagement.

Skills

  • Research: HCI, UX, Usability Testing, User Research, Survey Design, Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis, Project Management
  • Statistical Tools: Python, SQL, SPSS, R, Matlab
  • Programming: Python, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS
  • Language: English (fluent), Mandarin (native)

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