Jiawen Stefanie Zhu

HCI Research | Incoming PhD Student @ UWashington

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Hello! I'm a undergraduate researcher in the Waterloo Visualization research group, advised by Dr. Jian Zhao. In Fall 2024, I will join the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington as a Ph.D. Student to work with Dr. Katharina Reinecke and Dr. Tanu Mitra.

I mainly conduct research in the fields of
Human-Computer Interaction
and
Visualization
. My broad research interest lies in designing and analyzing intelligent interactive technology that can increase the effectiveness of
Human-Human and Human-AI communication and collaboration
. In the past, I have contributed to projects concerning Programming Tools, Affective Computing, and Virtual Reality.

I obtained my bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo. In my spare time, I like to hike, read, and practice martial arts. I'm also interested in linguistics, and enjoy exploring and comparing different languages.

News

2024-07 Visiting Dr. April Wang at ETH Zurich for the summer.
2024-05 Attending CHI’24 to present work on computational notebooks at the 1st ACM CHI Workshop on Human-Notebook Interactions. One co-authored paper on emotional teasers was also accepted.
2024-05 Graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.CS in Computer Science.
2024-01 Received the CRA 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award - Honorable Mention.