About
HCI, Privacy, and Security Researcher
I am a CS PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. My research interest lies in the intersaction of Usable Privacy and Security, Human-Computer Interaction, 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 - Feb. 2026
- Advised by Prof. Sauvik Das.
- SP-ABCBench: A benchmark to simulate and evaluate LLM agents' privacy attitude and behavior.
Research Assistant
SaNDwich Lab, University of Notre Dame
Sept. 2023 - May 2025
- 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 & Tutor
CSE Department, University of Notre Dame
Aug. 2022 - May 2025
- Operating System Principles: Spring&Fall 2025
- Distributed Systems: Spring 2026
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
Second Place, Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2026
Apr. 2026, University of Notre Dame, ($2000)
Deans Honor List
2023-2025 all semesters, University of Notre Dame
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)
Greater China Scholar
2022, University of Notre Dame, ($5000)