Yixuan ("Janice") Zhang
Ph.D.
Pronounce as [y-ee] [sh-oo-en] [j-AH-ng]
Preferred name: Janice
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
William & Mary
[Jan. 2024]
Our paper, "Profiling the Dynamics of Trust & Distrust in Social Media" was accepted to CHI'24!
Our paper, "Profiling the Dynamics of Trust & Distrust in Social Media" was accepted to CHI'24!
[Nov. 2023]
I'll be serving as the Publication Co-Chair at ACM DIS'24 and an Associated Chair (AC) in the Program Committee at CHI'24 (LBW).
I'll be serving as the Publication Co-Chair at ACM DIS'24 and an Associated Chair (AC) in the Program Committee at CHI'24 (LBW).
[Oct. 2023]
I received a Learn, Discover, Innovate grant from the Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI), William & Mary to examine how to ethically leverage LLMs in computer science education.
I received a Learn, Discover, Innovate grant from the Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI), William & Mary to examine how to ethically leverage LLMs in computer science education.
[Sept. 2023]
I was awarded a grant from Microsoft Research to explore the interplay of emotional intelligence and LLMs.
I was awarded a grant from Microsoft Research to explore the interplay of emotional intelligence and LLMs.
[Sept. 2023]
I was awarded a grant from The Society of 1918, William & Mary, to study how well conversational AI supports the mental health needs of women.
I was awarded a grant from The Society of 1918, William & Mary, to study how well conversational AI supports the mental health needs of women.
[April 2023]
Our CHI'23 paper, "What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review" won a Best Paper Award !
Our CHI'23 paper, "What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review" won a Best Paper Award !
[April 2023]
Our other CHI'23 paper, "Synthetic Lies: Understanding AI-Generated Misinformation and Evaluating Algorithmic and Human Solutions" got a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!
Our other CHI'23 paper, "Synthetic Lies: Understanding AI-Generated Misinformation and Evaluating Algorithmic and Human Solutions" got a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!
[April 2023]
I passed my PhD defense! Thank you those who have helped me.
I passed my PhD defense! Thank you those who have helped me.
[Aug. 2022]
I was honored to be named a "Rising Star in EECS" 2022!
I was honored to be named a "Rising Star in EECS" 2022!
[Aug. 2022]
I was honored to be selected as a "Foley Scholar" (highest award for excellence in research contributions to computing) at Georgia Tech.
I was honored to be selected as a "Foley Scholar" (highest award for excellence in research contributions to computing) at Georgia Tech.
[July 2022]
Our paper, "Visualization Design Practices in a Crisis: Behind the Scenes with COVID-19 Dashboard Creators" was accepted to VIS'22!
Our paper, "Visualization Design Practices in a Crisis: Behind the Scenes with COVID-19 Dashboard Creators" was accepted to VIS'22!
[Feb. 2022]
Our other paper, "Investigating Older Adults’ Attitudes towards Crisis Informatics Tools: Opportunities for Enhancing Community Resilience during Disasters", was also accepted at CHI'22!
Our other paper, "Investigating Older Adults’ Attitudes towards Crisis Informatics Tools: Opportunities for Enhancing Community Resilience during Disasters", was also accepted at CHI'22!
[Jan. 2022]
I passed my PhD dissertation proposal defense!
I passed my PhD dissertation proposal defense!
[Nov. 2021]
Our paper, "Shifting Trust: Examining How Trust and Distrust Emerge, Transform, and Collapse in COVID-19 Information Seeking", was accepted at CHI'22!
Our paper, "Shifting Trust: Examining How Trust and Distrust Emerge, Transform, and Collapse in COVID-19 Information Seeking", was accepted at CHI'22!
[Nov. 2021]
I gave a presentation at a webinar--"The Past, Present, and Future of COVID-19 Dashboards"--organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 9th, 2021.
I gave a presentation at a webinar--"The Past, Present, and Future of COVID-19 Dashboards"--organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 9th, 2021.
[Oct. 2021]
I was invited as a panelist at a VIS'21 panel "What is the Role of VIS in Combating COVID-19?".
I was invited as a panelist at a VIS'21 panel "What is the Role of VIS in Combating COVID-19?".
Note: all publications listed are peer-reviewed conference papers or journals, not including abstract submissions and posters.
Student authors under my supervision (e.g., my PhD students) are marked underlined.
2025
[Learning@Scale'25]
Will Your Next Pair Programming Partner Be Human? An Empirical Evaluation of Generative AI as a Collaborative Teammate in a Semester-Long Classroom Setting
Wenhan Lyu, Yimeng Wang, Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang
[CHI'25]
Understanding Attitudes and Trust of Generative AI Chatbots for Social Anxiety Support
Yimeng Wang, Yinzhou Wang, Kelly Crace, Yixuan Zhang
[Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence '25]
Understanding the Practices, Perceptions, and (Dis)Trust of Generative AI among Instructors: A Mixed-methods Study in the U.S. Higher Education
Wenhan Lyu, Shuang Zhang, Tingting (Rachel) Chung, Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang
[CSCW'25]
MetaAgents: Large Language Model Based Agents for Decision-Making on Teaming
Yuan Li, Lichao Sun, Yixuan Zhang
2024
[ICML'24]
Trustllm: Trustworthiness in large language models
Lichao Sun, Yue Huang, Wenhan Lyu, Yixuan Zhang, ...
[ICML'24]
The Good, The Bad, and Why: Unveiling Emotions in Generative AI
Cheng Li, Jindong Wang, Yixuan Zhang, Kaijie Zhu, Xinyi Wang, Wenxin Hou, Jianxun Lian, Fang Luo, Qiang Yang, Xing Xie
[ICML'24]
CompeteAI: Understanding the Competition Behaviors in Large Language Model-based Agents
Qinlin Zhao, Jindong Wang, Yixuan Zhang, Yiqiao Jin, Kaijie Zhu, Hao Chen, Xing Xie
[Learning@Scale'24]
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLMs in Introductory Computer Science Education: A Semester-Long Field Study
Wenhan Lyu, Yimeng Wang, Tingting (Rachel) Chung, Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang
[CHI'24]
Profiling the Dynamics of Trust & Distrust in Social Media: A Survey Study.
Yixuan Zhang*, Yimeng Wang*, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Joseph D. Gaggiano, Nurul Suhaimi, Anne Okrah, Miso Kim, Jacqueline Griffin, and Andrea G. Parker.
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2023
[CHI'23] (Best Paper Award)
What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review.
Yixuan Zhang, Joseph D. Gaggiano, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Nurul Suhaimi, Miso Kim, Yifan Sun, Jacqueline Griffin, and Andrea G. Parker.
[CHI'23] (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)
Synthetic Lies: Understanding AI-Generated Misinformation and Evaluating Algorithmic and Human Solutions.
Jiawei Zhou, Yixuan Zhang, Qianni Luo, Andrea G. Parker, and Munmun De Choudhury.
[Interacting with Computer Journal'23]
Social Media Use and Individuals’ Intent to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19: An Exploratory Study of the Mediating Role of Information Exposure.
Nurul Suhaimi, Yixuan Zhang, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Joseph D Gaggiano, Anne Okrah, Shivani A. Patel, Stacy Marsella, Miso Kim, Andrea G. Parker, and Jacqueline Griffin.
2022
[VIS'22]
Visualization Design Practices in a Crisis: Behind the Scenes with COVID-19 Dashboard Creators.
Yixuan Zhang, Yifan Sun, Joseph D. Gaggiano, Neha Kumar, Clio Andris, and Andrea G. Parker.
[CHI'22]
Shifting Trust: Examining How Trust and Distrust Emerge, Transform, and Collapse in COVID-19 Information Seeking.
Yixuan Zhang, Nurul Suhaimi, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Joseph D Gaggiano, Miso Kim, Shivani A. Patel, Yifan Sun, Stacy Marsella, Jacqueline Griffin, and Andrea G. Parker.
[CHI'22]
Investigating Older Adults’ Attitudes towards Crisis Informatics Tools: Opportunities for Enhancing Community Resilience during Disasters.
Nurul Suhaimi, Yixuan Zhang, Mary Joseph, Miso Kim, Andrea G. Parker, and Jacqueline Griffin.
[The Design Journal'22]
Healthy Aging Adviser: Designing a Service to Support the Life Transitions and Autonomy of Older Adults.
Miso Kim, Valeria Ramdin, Rachel Pozzar, Paul Fombelle, Xing Zhou, Yixuan Zhang, and Muling Jiang.
2021
[CHI'21]
Mapping the Landscape of COVID-19 Crisis Visualizations
Yixuan Zhang, Yifan Sun, Lace Padilla, Sumit Barua, Enrico Bertini, and Andrea G. Parker
[VIS'21 panel]
What is the Role of VIS in Combating COVID-19?
Min Chen, David Ebert, Lace Padilla, Yixuan Zhang, and Alfie Abdul-Rahman
[EuroVis'21]
Daisen: A Framework for Visualizing Detailed GPU Execution
Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang, Ali Mosallaei, Michael D. Shah, Cody Dunne, and David Kaeli.
2020
[VIS'20]
Sequence Braiding: Visual Overviews of Temporal Event Sequences and Attributes
Sara Di Bartolomeo, Yixuan Zhang, Fangfang Sheng, and Cody Dunne
[VIS'20]
VisConnect: Distributed Event Synchronization for Collaborative Visualization
Michail Schwab, David Saffo, Yixuan Zhang, Shash Sinha, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, James Tompkin, Cody Dunne, and Michelle A. Borkin
[PervasiveHealth'20]
Information Visualization for Diabetes Management: A Literature Review
Yixuan Zhang, Andrea G. Parker, and Cody Dunne
[CHI'20]
Understanding the Use of Crisis Informatics Technology among Older Adults
Yixuan Zhang, Nurul Suhaimi, Rana Azghandi, Mary Amulya Joseph, Miso Kim, Jacqueline Griffin, and Andrea G. Parker.
[CHI'20] (short paper)
Eat4Thought: A Design of Food Journaling
Yixuan Zhang and Andrea G. Parker
[CHI'20 AI4HCI Workshop]
Digital Collaborator: Augmenting Task Abstraction in Visualization Design with Artificial Intelligence
Yixuan Zhang, Aditeya Pandey, John A. Guerra-Gomez, Andrea G. Parker, and Michelle A. Borkin.
2019
[CSCW'19]
Caring for Alzheimer’s Disease Caregivers: A Qualitative Study Investigating Opportunities for Exergame Innovation
Elizabeth Stowell, Yixuan Zhang, Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa, Margie Lachman, and Andrea G. Parker.
[VIS'19]
Evaluating Alignment Approaches in Superimposed Time-Series and Temporal Event-Sequence Visualizations
Yixuan Zhang, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Fangfang Sheng, Holly Jimison, and Cody Dunne.
2018
[VIS'18]
IDMVis: Temporal Event Sequence Visualization for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment Decision Support
Yixuan Zhang, Kartik Chanana, and Cody Dunne.
[AHFE'18]
Autonomy in Residential Care: Using TEAMWORK and the Deep Dive to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Yixuan Zhang, Rachel Pozzar, Xing Zhou, Miso Kim, Paul W Fombelle, and Valeria A Ramdin.
[ServDes'18]
Resident Autonomy in Assisted Living Facilities: Aconceptual Framework for Transformative Service Research
Valeria A Ramdin, Miso Kim, Rachel Pozzar, Paul W Fombelle, Yixuan Zhang, Xing Zhou, and Julia Janigan.
[Frontiers in Service'18]
Residential Care as a Negative Service: Informing a Service Prototype to Promote Elder Autonomy
Rachel Pozzar, Miso Kim, Valeria A Ramdin, Xing Zhou, Yixuan Zhang, and Paul W Fombelle.