I am a fifth-year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Amy X. Zhang in the Social Futures Lab. My research sits at the intersection of social computing and human–AI interaction. I design tools that empower everyday users—non-programmers, community moderators, and domain experts—to shape and control the algorithms that shape their online experiences. I am especially interested in combining LLMs, end-user programming techniques, and interactive machine learning to make algorithmic systems more understandable, customizable, and aligned with human intent.

I have interned at Adobe Research (2026) with Shunan Guo and Zhaoyang Xia, at Google Research and Google Ads & Safety (2024–2025) with Otilia Stretcu and Ranjay Krishna, and at Microsoft Research (2023) with Scott Counts. Before coming to UW, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University (Xinya College) in 2022, with a visiting year in Computer Science and Philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. During my undergraduate studies, I was a research assistant in the Social AI Group at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Haiyi Zhu and Steven Wu, and in the CMU DIG lab advised by Adam Perer.

I am always happy to chat about research and collaborate, and I am glad to mentor undergraduate students who are interested in research. Feel free to drop me an email :)