Current PhD advisees
Seyun Kim (HCII PhD)
Tzu-Sheng Kuo (HCII PhD)
Graduated PhD advisees
Angela Chen, now entrepreneur;
Jordan Taylor, now post-doc at University of Michigan;
Anna Kawakami, now research scientist at NIST;
Anna Fang, now assistant professor (Lecturer) at the University of Melbourne;
Jane Hsieh, now post-doc at CMU;
Logan Stapleton, now Assistant Professor at Vassar College;
Zheng Yao, now at Google;
Hao-Fei Cheng, now at Amazon;
Bowen Yu, now at Meta.
Prospective students
If you are interested in working with me and applying for PhD starting in 2027, please read these three papers and email me your thoughts. (1) Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for LLM-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training [Link]; (2) Modeling of Therapist–Client Dynamics in Psychotherapy Using LLM-Based Assessments: An Empirical Study [Link], and (3) Design Principles for Human-Agent Interaction [Link].
Contact
– Office: NSH 3615
– Email: haiyiz at cs dot cmu dot edu or haiyiz at andrew dot cmu dot edu