🧠 Started graduate teaching assistant job for the course Designing and Building User Interfaces!
Design course syllabus and teach seminars bi-weekly.
☕️About Me
Yiyang (Diana) Wang is a third-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM Agents, Human-AI interaction, Multimodal Sensing, and Machine Learning.
Interests
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Large Language Models
- LLM Agents
- Multimodal LLMs
- Ubiquitous Computing
Education
PhD in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University
BSc Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
📚 My Research
My research focuses on developing AI-driven mobile health technologies and behavioral analysis tools through user-centered design. I aim to apply my expertise in creating innovative, user-focused AI solutions across diverse technology domains.
Please reach out to collaborate 😃
Experience
Research Scientist Intern
Dolby Laboratories- Topic: A Multi-Agent Conversational AI Framework with Spatial Audio for Social Co-Viewing Experiences
Software / UX Research
MetaMeta x CMU MHCI Capstone
- Designed Nova, an LLM-based assistant, to enhance knowledge sharing for the advancement of data centers, overcoming challenges by applying UX research techniques and prototyping, and culminating in a collaborative presentation at Meta’s Fremont office.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon- Delivered E2E pipeline for natural language understanding models’ test set release on AWS account that reduced manual effort and total testing time by 50%
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon- Optimized automated long-running end-to-end integration tests for internal model release pipeline to a single command on cloud terminal and shortened manual testing time by 8 hours
Software Engineer Co-op
HubSpot- Delivered Zoom call transcription service to more than 121,000 customers across more than 120 countries and improved conference archive and content accessibility
Software Engineer Intern
Cognosos- Enhanced customers’ portal experience in tracking over 100,000 assets across multiple industries at a start-up
Education
PhD in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of TechnologySupervised by Prof Josiah Hester.Master of Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon UniversityGPA: 3.99/4.00
Supervised by Prof Sherry Tongshuang Wu. Courses included:
- Design of AI Products
- Software Structures for User Interfaces
- User-Centered Research and Evaluation
BSc Computer Science
Georgia Institute of TechnologyGPA: 3.94/4.00, Major GPA: 4.00/4.00
Supervised by Prof Gregory Abowd and Prof Jennifer Kim. Courses included:
- Machine Learning
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Social Psychology
Recent Publications
(2025).
SciEvo: A 2 Million, 30-Year Cross-disciplinary Dataset for Temporal Scientometric Analysis.
Good Data AAAI 2025.
(2025).
Eliciting Design Guidelines of Paper-Based Tactile Interfaces for Eyes-Free Scenarios.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction.
(2025).
PuffEM: An E-cigarette Sleeve for Estimating User Nicotine Intake.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE ‘25), June 24–26, 2025.
(2024).
AgentReview: Exploring Peer Review Dynamics with LLM Agents.
EMNLP'24.
Recent News
🎉 Presented my work-in-progress at Northeast CHI!
I presented my work-in-progress paper, From Puffs to Patterns: Ubiquitous Technology in Mapping E-Cigarette Consumption.
✅ Presented research to Georgia Tech President Cabrera!
Easily manage your projects - create ideation mind maps, Gantt charts, todo lists, and more!
🧠 Started my PhD at Georgia Tech!
Create a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.
📍 Presented MHCI capstone project with Meta!
Use popular tools such as Plotly, Mermaid, and data frames.
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