About
Software Developer / HCI Researcher
I am a 26' undergraduate student at the University of Notre Dame, persuing B.S. in Computer Science and ACMS (suppl.). My research interest lies in the interaction of Usable Privacy and Security, LLM Social Simulation, and Human-Centered AI.
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Education
Publications
AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multimodal Information Between Reality and Videos
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, JooYoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Experience
Researcher Intern
SPUD Lab, HCII, Carnegie Mellon University
May 2025 - Present
- Advised by Prof. Sauvik Das.
- PriSim: A benchmark to simulate and evaluate LLM agents' privacy decision-making.
Research Assistant
SaNDwich Lab, University of Notre Dame
Sept. 2023 - Present
- Advised by Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li.
- AROMA: A multimodal cooking assistant for BLV users, providing both reactive and proactive assistance.
- Privacy Auditing Sandbox: An interactive interface for end-user auditing of online content recommendations using AI-generated virtual personas.
Teaching Assistant: Operating System Principles
CSE Department, University of Notre Dame
Jan. - May 2025
- Led office hours, graded assignments, projects, and exams.
Software Engineer Intern
China Construction Bank Fintech
Jun. - Aug. 2024
- Big Data System Maintenance (Flink-based Kafka consumer)
Data Analyst Intern
Everbright Securities Asset Management
Jul. - Aug. 2023
- Machine Learning for Investment (GRU with multi-head self-attention)
Honors
First Place, Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2025
Apr. 2025, University of Notre Dame, ($3000)
Best Use of External Data, ASA DataFest 2025 at Notre Dame
Mar. 2025, American Statistical Association, ($1000)
Frank Reilly Scholar
2024, University of Notre Dame, ($5000)
Second Place, Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2024
Apr. 2024, University of Notre Dame, ($2000)
Great China Scholar
2022, University of Notre Dame, ($5000)
Deans Honor List
2023-2025 all semesters, University of Notre Dame