Qian Yang
Assistant professor in Information Science at Cornell
Faculty field member in Computer Science
Assistant professor in Information Science at Cornell
Faculty field member in Computer Science
Hi there 👋! This is Qian (pronounced chi-en). I am a human-AI interaction designer and researcher. My students and I design novel AI applications and services that demonstrate new ways of bridging together frontier AI technologies, user needs, and societal betterment goals. For this work, I have received many academic and industry awards, including Schmidt Futures' Inaugural AI2050 Fellowship.
I am also hugely passionate about teaching these emergent methods to future UX designers and AI product innovators. As part of this effort, I co-direct the Cornell Digital and AI Literacy Initiative with Professor Natalie Bazarova. I am also a senior fellow at the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute.
My students and I call ourselves the DesignAI group. You can find our work and my teaching on the group's website. You can also follow our work here:
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Miscellaneous
I received my Ph.D. in HCI from Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and got an outstanding SIGCHI Ph.D. dissertation award along the way. I also have a Master's Degree in Design, a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design, and a Bachelor of Business Administration, all from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. A bit of a degree haul, but I enjoyed the journey tremendously.
I was, once upon a time, a concept car designer and car design trend researcher.
I am a keen painter; I mainly paint with acrylics and watercolors, and I'm trying to get better at colored pencils.
I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. Yang's Dumplings is my spiritual dumpling, and I have strong opinions about which is the best soup dumpling spot in Shanghai.