Quan Ze Chen (Jim Chen)

Preprints and Workshop Papers

• NeurIPS 2023 MP2 Workshop Case Repositories: Towards Case-Based Reasoning for AI Alignment. [Website] [Poster]

  K.J. Kevin Feng, Quan Ze Chen, Inyoung Cheong, King Xia, Amy X. Zhang

• PREPRINT Case Law Grounding: Aligning Judgments of Humans and AI on Socially-Constructed Concepts.

  Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang

Select Publications

• CSCW 2023 Judgment Sieve: Reducing Uncertainty in Group Judgments through Interventions Targeting Ambiguity versus Disagreement. [Code]

  Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang

• IUI 2022 HINT: Integration Testing for AI-based features with Humans in the Loop. [Code]

  Quan Ze Chen, Tobias Schnabel, Besmira Nushi, Saleema Amershi

• CSCW 2021 Goldilocks: Consistent Crowdsourced Scalar Annotations with Relative Uncertainty. [Code] [Demo]

  Quan Ze Chen, Dan S. Weld, Amy X. Zhang

• CHI 2019 Cicero: Multi-Turn Argumentation for Accurate Crowdsourcing.

  Quan Ze Chen, Jonathan Bragg, Lydia Chilton, Dan S. Weld

Publications

• SIGCSE 2024 Bringing Social Computing to Secondary School Classrooms.

  Kianna Bolante, Kevin Chen, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang

• HCOMP 2023 Confidence Contours: Uncertainty-Aware Annotation for Medical Semantic Segmentation.

  Andre Ye, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang

• FAccT 2023 Skin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets. [Code]

  Teanna Barrett, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang

• CSCW 2023 Understanding User Preferences for Personal Content Moderation Controls.

  Shagun Jhaver, Alice Zhang, Quan Ze Chen, Ms Nikhila Natarajan, Ruotong Wang, Amy X. Zhang

• CHI 2022 Designing Word Filter Tools for Creator-led Comment Moderation.

  Shagun Jhaver, Quan Ze Chen, Detlef Knauss, Amy X. Zhang

• arXiv 2018 Technology-Enabled Disinformation: Summary, Lessons, and Recommendations.

  John Akers, Gagan Bansal, Gabriel Cadamuro, Christine Chen, Quan Ze Chen, Lucy Lin, Phoebe Mulcaire, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Matthew Rockett, Lucy Simko, John Toman, Tongshuang Wu, Eric Zeng, Bill Zorn, and Franziska Roesner

• ACL 2016 Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Simplification. [Code/Data]

  Wei Xu, Courtney Napoles, Ellie Pavlick, Quan Ze Chen, Chris Callison-Burch

• HCOMP 2014 Poetry of the Crowd: A Human Computation Algorithm to Convert Prose into Rhyming Verse.

  Quan Ze Chen, Chenyang Lei, Wei Xu, Ellie Pavlick and Chris Callison-Burch

Mentored Students & Projects

• Katie Yurechko. Developing and Piloting a Complex Word Filter for Interactive Comment Classification (NSF REU)
• Kianna Bolante. Bringing Social Computing to Secondary School Classrooms. (NSF REU)
• Teanna Barrett. Skin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets. (NSF REU)
• Andre Ye. Confidence Contours: Uncertainty-Aware Annotation for Medical Semantic Segmentation

Education

• PhD, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, 2023
• MS, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, 2019
• BSE, University of Pennsylvania, Networked & Social Systems, Minor in Fine Arts, 2016

Work Experience

• Research Intern @ Amazon Web Services
  Summer 2021

  Conducted experiments to explore an alternative method to train workers to do complex tasks through examples instead of a set of guidelines.

• Research Intern @ Microsoft Research
  Spring 2020

  Worked on HINT project developing a framework for testing AI-based features with humans-in-the-loop.

• Research Intern @ The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
  Spring 2019

  Worked on the Semantic Scholar team to improve topic pages through better automated ranking of papers along with a human-in-the-loop w orkflow and interface for curation by experts.

• Software Engineer Intern @ Google
  Summer 2015

  Worked on Advertiser Platform (Adwords) Export - A service to allow search AD advertisers to translate their AD campaigns. Built on top of the Google Web Tools (GWT) framework in Java.

• Research Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
  Summer 2014

  Worked on a Poetry of the Crowd project, a human computation algorithm to convert prose into poetry.

Teaching

• CSE 440 - Introduction To HCI
  

  Quarters: 2022 Autumn

  Lead section, lectures, grading, office hours.
• CSEP 590B - Enterprise Chatbots
  

  Quarters: 2021 Spring

  Create assignments, grading, office hours.
• CSE 415 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  

  Quarters: 2021 Winter

  Create assignments, grading, office hours.
• CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  

  Quarters: 2019 Winter

  Exam and assignment grading, office hours, lecture session, general logistics.
• CSEP 573 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  

  Quarters: 2019 Spring

  Grade and design assignments, hold office hours, produce test questions.
• NETS 213 - Crowdsourcing and Human Computation : Teaching Assistant
  

  Semesters: 2016 Spring

  Hold office hours and grade assignments.
• CIS 121 - Data Structures and Algorithms : Teaching Assistant
  

  Semesters: 2016 Spring

  Grading infrastructure and automation

  Semesters: 2015 Fall

  Head TA. Re-organized the course material and implemented some tools to assist grading.

  Semesters: 2013 Fall, 2014 Spring, 2014 Fall, 2015 Spring

  Worked on the overhaul of the backend and frontend of the grading administration system.