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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech with Professor Josiah Hester. I obtained my PhD from Georgia Tech Human-Centered Computing, with Professor Gregory Abowd and Hyunjoo Oh.

My main research interest and background lie in Solid Mechanics and Human-Computer Interaction fields to design, fabricate, and analyze novel-material based sensors and actuators and their interactions with us. Especially, I aim to add “sustainable physical intelligence” into our built environment, with not only allowing our environment to sense the different surrounding activities, actuate to indicate/deliver information or even communicate within the same or across remote sites, but also paying attention to how this built-in materials intelligence can help them self-destruct or even further recycled as how our nature does.

Email: tcheng32@gatech.edu/ tcheng2@nd.edu

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Professional Experience:

  • 05-08/2022, Research Intern, Accenture Future Technologies Lab, San Francisco, CA, Advisor: Andreea Danielescu, Taylor Tabb.

  • 05-12/2021, Research Intern, Meta Reality Lab, Toronto, Canada, Advisor: Marcello Giordano.

  • 05-09/2020, Research Intern, Chatham Lab/Meta Reality Lab, Toronto, Canada, Advisor: Marcello Giordano, Carolina Brum Medeiros, Tovi Grossman.

  • 05-09/2018, Visiting researcher, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, Advisor: Yoshihiro Kawahara.

  • 07/2017-05/2018, Research intern, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Advisor: Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi.

  • 09/2015-06/2016, Visiting Researcher, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Advisor: Tiefeng Li.

Awards:

Academic Service:

  • Program Committee: Associate Chair UIST 2024, TEI 2025, Late-Breaking Work ACM CHI 2021, 2022, ISWC 2023

  • Conference & Journal Reviewer: CHI LBW (2022, 2021), CHI (2023, 2022), C&C (2022, 2021), TEI
    (2023, 2022, 2021), ISWC (2021, 2022), UIST (2021, 2022, 2023*, 2024*), DIS (2020, 2022, 2024*), IMWUT (2022), CACM 2024.

    (* indicates special recognition for excellent reviews)

  • Student Volunteer: CHI 2018.

Teaching:

  • Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Graduate TA for CS3750 Introduction to User Interface Design

  • Fall 2020, Graduate TA for CS3651 Prototyping Intelligence Appliances

  • Spring 2021 Guest lecture for CS6452 Prototyping Interactive Systems, “Make your own sensors”

  • Fall 2021 Guest lecture for ID 8803 Designing for Curiosity, “Printed electronics in HCI”

  • Spring 2023 Graduate TA for CS6601 Artificial Intelligence

  • Fall 2023 Co-design and teach ID 8803: Sustainable Device Design

Student Mentoring:

  • Bu Li: now PhD student at University of British Columbia. (ECE)

  • Jiachen Li: now PhD student at Northeastern University. (ECE)

  • Zhihan Zhang: now PhD student at University of Washington. (ECE)

  • Yuyang Zhou: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (ECE)

  • Haojun Yuan: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (CS)

  • Yunzhi Li: now PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. (CS)

  • Yi He, now UX designer in Duolingo. (Design and HCI)

  • Yejun Kim: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Alison Hu: now undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. (Design and HCI)

  • Bingrui Zong: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Akash Talyan: now UX designer in Lucid Software. (Design and HCI)

  • Meichen Wei: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Han Huang: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Jinzhi Ye: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Julio De Perrda Banda: now MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Yingting Gao: now PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Design and HCI)

  • Tejonidhi Deshpande: now PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Robotics)

Media Coverage:

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