Ziqi Yang
PhD Student in Informatics @ University of California, Irvine. Research in Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, and Generative AI.
About Me
I am a PhD student at UCI co-advised by Prof. Yunan Chen and Prof. Daniel Epstein. My research interests lie in human-computer interaction and personal health informatics. Previously, I received my MS in Information Science at the University of Michigan, and my BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Outside of research, I enjoy travelling, photography, and exploring new sports. I’m always happy to meet new ideas, opportunities, and collaborators!
Research Highlights
Sharing Women's Health Experiences Influenced by Genetic Factors
CHI 26 Submission | University of California, Irvine
Conducted a mixed-method survey with 249 U.S. women to study inter-generational sharing of genetic health experiences.
Talk2Care: LLM Voice Assistant for Patient-Provider Communication
IMWUT 2024 [Distinguished Paper Award]
Exploring a voice-based assistant leveraging large language models to improve patient–provider communication in healthcare contexts.
UX Research & Design Highlights
Selected Publications
Talk2Care: An LLM-based Voice Assistant for Communication between Healthcare Providers and Older Adults [PDF]
Ziqi Yang, Xuhai Xu, Bingsheng Yao, Ethan Rogers, Shao Zhang, Stephen Intille, Nawar Shara, Guodong Gordon Gao, and Dakuo Wang.
IMWUT'24⭐ Distinguished Paper AwardCardioAI: A Multimodal AI-based System to Support Symptom Monitoring and Risk Prediction of Cancer Treatment-Induced Cardiotoxicity [PDF]
Siyi Wu, Weidan Cao, Shihan Fu, Bingsheng Yao, Ziqi Yang, Changchang Yin, Varun Mishra, Daniel Addison, Ping Zhang, and Dakuo Wang.
CHI '25Observing a robot peer's failures facilitates students' classroom learning [PDF]
Liuqing Chen, Yu Cai, Yuyang Fang, Ziqi Yang, Duowei Xia, Jiaxiang You, Shuhong Xiao, Yaxuan Song, Lingwei Zhan, Juanjuan Chen, and Lingyun Sun.
Science Robotics, 2025