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Xinyi Wang |
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I graduated with Master in Computer Science from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I've worked at GroupLens Research Lab focusing on various topics in Human-Computer Interaction. My research interests are to understand user behavioral patterns and improve the user experience of current social computing systems, and design new computational tools that facilitate collaboration among peer users. I do research in online peer production systems such as Wikipedia, sharing economy systems such as Couchsurfing and Airbnb, and crowdsourcing systems such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. My current research interests include trust and bias in online sharing systems, misinformation in media, and building VR/AR systems for social good.
In addition to conducting empirical research, I also have developed prototypes of various web applications and mobile systems. Some of these involve extensive UI research and iterative prototyping, others are full stack working system. More info can be found in Fun Projects.
I was born and raised in Chengdu, China - the hometown of pandas. After graduating with honor from Chengdu Foreign Languages School, I was recommended to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics without requiring entrance examination tests. After two years studying Linguistics in Beijing, I made her way across the Atlantic and majored in Psychology at University of Minnesota. I am now living at Minneapolis, MN, resolved to bring out the human side of technology. I enjoy traveling (20+ countries so far), photography, and playing badminton when I'm not writing papers.
In addition to conducting empirical research, I also have developed prototypes of various web applications and mobile systems. Some of these involve extensive UI research and iterative prototyping, others are full stack working system. More info can be found in Fun Projects.
I was born and raised in Chengdu, China - the hometown of pandas. After graduating with honor from Chengdu Foreign Languages School, I was recommended to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics without requiring entrance examination tests. After two years studying Linguistics in Beijing, I made her way across the Atlantic and majored in Psychology at University of Minnesota. I am now living at Minneapolis, MN, resolved to bring out the human side of technology. I enjoy traveling (20+ countries so far), photography, and playing badminton when I'm not writing papers.
my news ...
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2011
- Joined an international startup Amy Software Inc. as the Senior Product Manager of the founding team. Our vision is to allow anyone who wants a chatbot, to be able to DIY one on their own! Try Amy yourself!
- Oct: Worked as Project Manager at Hailiang Educational Institute
- Aug: Moved back to China
- Jan: Graduated from University of Minnesota with a Master in Comupter Science!
- Moved to San Diego, CA
- June 13: Back to UMN as an research assistant on two projects:
- A Taxonomy of Contextual Trust in Physical Sharing Economy
- Peer-supported reformulation strategies for negative thoughts
- Jan - May: Joined Didi Chuxing in Beijing, China as a research intern in the product team of Didi AI labs!
2018
- Jun 24-28: Having fun at HCIC 2018 in Watsonville, California! I will present my boaster on Crowd-in-the-Loop: Bring Human Values into AI Design for Self Driving Car Using VR.
- Apr 23: I'm attending CHI 2018 in Montréal, Canada!
- Feb 9: Our paper on "[Un]breaking News: Design Opportunities for Enhancing Collaboration in Scientific Media Production" has been awarded an Honorable Mention Award for CHI 2018!!!
2017
- Dec 12: Our paper [Un]breaking News: Design Opportunities for Enhancing Collaboration in Scientific Media Production has been accepted to CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada!!
- Dec 6: two of my papers are now available online for CSCW'18!
- Nov 3: I presented our recent work about Contextual Trust in Physical Sharing Economy at the Sharing Economy Initiative research workshop.
- Oct 4 - 6: I'm attending Grace Hopper Celebration 2017 at Orlando, FL. It was amazing to connect with 17,000 women in tech from all over the world!
- Aug 8: I have TWO papers accepted to CSCW 2018! A shout out to my advisor and all collaborators in supporting me through the 1st year of grad school!
- May 6-11: I'm presenting my Late Breaking Work at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017) at Denver, Colorado.
- Apr 4 - 8: I'm attending Computing Research Association - Women (CRA-W) for Grad Cohort 2017 at Washington DC, and presenting my first publication about the self-organized online communities of Mechanical Turk workers!
- Mar 1: my website is live with new domain name - xinyiwang.org!
- Feb 25 - Mar 1: I'm at Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017) at Portland, OR!
- Feb 10: our work on the self-organized MTurk communities has been accepted to CHI'17 Late Breaking Work, thanks to Dr. Haiyi Zhu, Dr. Joe Konstan, Yu Cui and Yangyun Li!
- Jan 11: Submitted our work on Amazon Mechanical Turk to 2017 CHI Late Breaking Work!
2016
- October 11: Posted my first blog: Hello, world!
- September 21: Submitted our first CHI paper!
- September 6: Officially started PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota!
- August 15: Published my first personal website: xinyi-wang.weebly.com!
- May 15: I officially graduated from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a B.A. in Psychology and minor in Statistics!
- May 6: Received 4 awards at 2016 Psychology Undergraduate Celebration:
- Author of a publication on Sentience (2015)
- UROP spring 2016 recipient
- UROP summer 2015 project
- President (2015-2016) of Psychology International Student Association
- January 26: Received $1700 grant from University of Minnesota for my UROP project in spring 2016.
2015
- November 1: I was acknowledged for help in collecting data for Jiang, Sha & Remington (2015).
- October 5: Joined Dr. Haiyi Zhu's lab as Research Assistant, working with graduate student at Grouplens.
- October 1: I was acknowledged for help in collecting data for Jiang & Won (2015).
- September 17: Joined Prof. Deniz Ones' lab and collaborated with her graduate student Mariah Moore on my UROP project: A Meta-Analysis on Dark Triad and Behaviors in the Workplace.
- September 10: I co-founded Industrial/Organizational Psychology Club (IOPC) with Sander Quint and Matt Vrbka to help undergraduates become more involved in I/O psychology by connecting them to peers, graduate students, and faculty with similar interests. We thank Prof. Aaron Schmidt for his help and guidance during this process.
- August 30: Presented my project - Improving Attention through Training - at the 2015 spring & summer Poster Symposium.
- August - November: Project Assistant for Prof. John Kammeyer-Mueller on Measure Chest project with Academy of Management.
- June - August: I interned at Bluestone Physician Services at Still Water, MN as an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist intern.
- March 13: Joined Dr. Le (Betty) Zhou's lab as a Research Assistant at Department of Work and Organization, Carlson School of Management at UMN.
- January 27: Received a grant ($1700) from University of Minnesota on a UROP project (faculty sponsor: Prof. Yuhong Jiang) in summer 2015.
- January - May: Worked for Prof. Jo-Ida Hansen as research assistant at the Center for Interest Measurement Research.
- January - March: I was a Human Resources intern with Environment Minnesota at Minneapolis, MN.
2014
- August 2014 - August 2015: I was research assistant for Prof. Yuhong Jiang at her Attention, Memory and Cognition lab.
- September - November: I was a Media Intern covering the 2014 U.S. Open Racquetball Championships at Minneapolis, MN.
- July - August: I was one of the Marketing Committee of TEDx while attending the Semester At Sea program at Stockholm, Sweden.
- June - August: I had a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime experience studying and traveling with Semester At Sea. We took 3 courses from professors around the world on MV Explorer (our home cruise) while visiting 10 countries and 11 regions during 66 days of this trip!
- May 1: I was elected as President of Psychology International Student Association (PISA) for the year 2015-2016 after serving as Vice President for the year 2014-2015.
- May 1: Resigned from my position as the Vice President of Students’ Association Union of BeiHang University.
2013
- October 2013 – January 2014: I work-studied at Fresh Food Company.
- May: I was pre-accepted to the Graduate Program at Beihang University in my sophomore year.
- May: I won the Gold Medal on the 23rd “FengRu Cup” Students Academic, Scientific & Technological Works Competition in Beijing, China with my project 论伯克修辞学和“五体三维”新模型在公众演讲中的应用.
- April - August: Worked with Dr. Weina Qu and Dr. Yan Ge at Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science (中科院心理所).
2012
- June: Received an Honorable Award in “Smile at Beihang” Photography Competition.
- May: Recognized as the Best Debater 2012 on the Annual Debate Competition of Beihang University.
- January – February: I was a volunteer English Teacher in the Rainbow Primary School at Chengdu, China.
2011
- December: Recognized as "Outstanding Coordinator of Year 2011" of the Public Relations Department.
- September 2011 - May 2014: Vice president (2013-2014), Director (2012-2013) and general member (2011-2012) of Students’ Association Union of BeiHang University (北航社联).
- September 2011 – June 2012: I was the Event Coordinator of the Council of Undergraduate Student of Beihang University.
- September 1: Started my college years at Beihang University!
- June: I officially graduated with honor from Chengdu Foreign Languages School.
- March: I was accepted for Early Admission to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics without requiring National College Entrance Examination!
