Ryan Yen

Researcher / Entrepreneur / Developer

I am currently a human AI researcher, a full-stack developer in the past, and an entrepreneur in the future. My research aligned with the exploration of the collaboration between human and state-of-the-art code generation models. My other research focuses on moderating online social media and fostering the sense of community.

I am a Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and am supervised by Dr. Jian Zhao (WatVis). After graduation, I would like to become a research engineer and prepare my startup.

Current State

Open to any research collaboration and looking for research intern

Research Interest
Online Community HAI Visual Analytics
Job Fit Research Engineer/ Backend developer/ Data Scientist/ Cloud Architecture/ Project Manager
Hobbies Violin/ Swimming/ Board Game
Skills

Latest News

Paper Accepted to CHI! 🎉2023-01-16

I'm coming to the CHI23 conference at Hamburg, German in 2023. I will present my work on the collaboration between human and code generation models. I will also present my work on moderating online social media and fostering the sense of community.

Paper Accepted to CSCW23! 🙌 2023-01-07

I'm coming to the CSCW23 conference at Seattle, US in 2023. I will present my work on the collaboration between human and code generation models. I will also present my work on moderating online social media and fostering the sense of community.

I'm coming to Waterloo 🎓2023-01-03

I'm coming to the University of Waterloo in 2023. I will be supervised by Dr. Jian Zhao. I will be working on the project of visual analytics for social media.

More News

Contact Me CV (2023-01)

Publication Works Education Community

Publication

CHI 2023

StoryChat: Designing a Narrative-Based Viewer Participation Tool for Live Streaming Chatrooms [pdf] [doi] [video]

Ryan Yen, Li Feng, Brinda Mehra, Ching Christie Pang, Siying Hu, Zhicong Lu

A narrative-based viewer participation tool that utilizes a dynamic graphical plot to reflect chatroom negativity. We discovered that StoryChat encouraged viewers to contribute prosocial comments, increased viewer engagement, and fostered viewers' sense of community.

CSCW 2023

Wizundry: A Cooperative Wizard of Oz Platform for Simulating Future Speech-based Interfaces with Multiple Wizards [pdf] [doi] [video]

Siying Hu, Ryan Yen^*, Ziwei Yu, Mingjian Zhao, Katie Seaborn, Can Liu

A real-time, web-based WoZ platform that allows multiple Wizards to collaboratively operate a speech-to-text based system remotely. Our findings reveal the promises and challenges of the multi-Wizard approach and open up new research questions.

Working Experience (full-time)

AI Research Intern

May 2021 - Jan 2022

Huawei Research Centre

Lung Cancer Detection, CV, AI Explainability in pathology diagnosis
MindSpore Pathology Diagnosis AI Challenge organizer
Online AI training, testing and evaluation platform
Speaker of Training AI Model on Huawei Cloud ModelArts AI Platform
Opening Speaker of Huawei AI challenge
Invited guest to Huawei Cloud Summit 2021
Computer Vision Deep Learning Explainable AI Full-Stack Development

CTO, Co-Founder

Oct 2021 - April 2021

Nérocean

We have developed a patented sensor for measuring dissolved oxygen in the ocean and used its fast and real-time nature to build AI network, which is dedicated to monitoring water quality in real time and predicting the health of the ocean within three months.

Ocean water sensor & Dissolved Oxygen prediction AI model

Deep-Learning based real-time classifier for ocean water quaity prediction

Funding from HK Government

Funding from Hong Kong Science Park

Funding from HKTech300, CityU

Full-Stack Intern

Sep 2020 - May 2021

Networld Tech Ltd.

I am part of a new team at Networld, nearD, a social networking site with a focus on privacy, multi-identity, and locality.

Cross-platform user interface, data visualization in nearD admin panel

Several Campaign Websites built with Leveral and React

Docker, K8s containerized and auto deployment to Google Cloud

Server side network and API management and scaling

CI/CD and two-step authorization on IP network restriction

Education

Research-based Master Degree

Jan 2023 - Present

University of Waterloo
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

UW Grad Scholarship
International Masters Award Excellence Scholarship
Graduate Research Studentship Scholarship
TA Funding
Research Assistant in WatVis Lab

Visting Student

June 2021 - Aug 2021

Stanford University
Department of Statistics

HKSAR Government Reaching Out Awards Funding
CGPA 4.0/4.0

Bachelor Degree

Sep 2018 - June 2022

City University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science

Vice President of Computer Science Student Chapter
4 years Full CityU International Student Scholarship
Awarded Dean's List
HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund
HK STEM Internship Scholarship
Department Overseas Learning Funding
English Proficiency Scholarship
Departmental Research Funding
Research Assistant in DEER Lab
Research Assistant in ERFI Lab
Research Assistant in MEI Lab

Communities & Events & Volunteers

Lead

Google Developers Student Club
CityU CS Student Chapter
Microsoft Learn Ambassador
AWS Educate Ambassador
IEEE Student Chapter
CityU IT Team

Organizer

AWS Cloud AI workshop 2021
CityU IT Team Tech seminars
CityHack 2018-21
MindSpore AI Challenge 2021
CityU AWSome Day 2020-21
Google Cloud Summit 2021
Google I/O Extend 2021
Python Workshop Series 2019

Volunteer

Stage actor - Mikado Children Theatre
Hospital Violinist (Taipei)
International Educational Volunteer (Thailand)