Hi! My name is Ziqi Yang 杨子祺. Starting Fall 2024, I have been an Informatics PhD student at University of California, Irvine, Donald Bren School of Informatics and Computer Science. My research interests lies in human-computer interaction and personal health informatics. I am lucky to be advised by Prof. Yunan Chen and working with Prof. Daniel Epstein at the HAI Lab on my research project(s) :)

Prior to joining UCI, I got my master’s degree in Information Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor majoring in User Experience and Human-Computer Interaction, where I worked with Prof. Mark Newman and Prof. Pedja Klasnja on projects on mobile health interventions. I also worked with Prof. Dakuo Wang at Northeastern University studying LLMs for patient-provider communication for older adults and cancer patients.

I gradutated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022. I also took electives in Industrial Design and social sciences from SJTU School of Design and University of California, Berkeley.

In my spare time, I enjoy travelling, getting around local areas, photography,and taking up new sports/exercise. I am always happy to meet new ideas, opportunities and interdisciplinary collaborators! Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work, have an idea for us to work together, or would simply like to chat!

See more in my recent CV and Portfolio

Recent Travels (Conference and Leisure)

• Oct 5th to Oct 9th, 2024: UbiComp’24. Melbourne, Australia. (Meet with me!)
• Summer 2024: Stockholm, Sweden. Barcelona & Sevilla, Spain. Lisbon, Portugal. Yellowstone National Park, WY… (Wonderful places to visit.)

Research Highlights

LLM CAs to Address Patient-Provider Communication Challenges

Ziqi Yang^*, Xuhai Xu^*, Bingsheng Yao, Ethan Rogers, Shao Zhang, Stephen Intille, Nawar Shara, Guodong Gordon Gao, and Dakuo Wang. 2024. Talk2Care: An LLM-based Voice Assistant for Communication between Healthcare Providers and Older Adults. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 8, 2, Article 73 (May 2024), 35 pages. [PDF] [Video]

• Advisor: Professor Dakuo Wang, Northeastern University

Ziqi Yang^*, Yuxuan Lu^*, Jennifer Bagdasarian, Vedant Das Swain, Ritu Agarwal, Collin Campbell, Waddah Al-Refaire, Jehan El-Bayoumi, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Nawar Shara, Dakuo Wang, Bingsheng Yao. RECOVER: Designing a Large Language Model-based Remote Patient Monitoring System for Postoperative GI Cancer Care (Submitted to CHI'25)

Ziqi Yang, Xuhai Xu, Bingsheng Yao, Jiachen Li, Jennifer Bagdasarian, Guodong Gao, Dakuo Wang. Is AI a Silver Bullet? Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Patient-Provider Communication in Post-Treatment Cancer Care [PDF] (Submitted to CSCW’25)

Mobile Health Interventions

A Pre-study of The Effects of Empathy and Personality of Chatbots on Increasing The Intention of Chatbot Continuance [PDF]

• Advisor: Professor Mark Newman, Professor Pedja Klasnja, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Working with PhD student Yuxuan Li at UMSI