Hi! I'm Litao Yan

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Ph.D. in CIS
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
ltyan@seas.upenn.edu

Hey! I'm Litao Yan, a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Andrew Head at UPenn. My primary interests lie in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), programming languages, software engineering, and interactive data visualization. I am super excited about designing interactive user interfaces for data-driven decision-making.

I am also working with Prof. Elena Glassman (Harvard), Prof. Tianyi Zhang (Purdue), Prof. Björn Hartmann (UC Berkeley), and Prof. Miryung Kim (UCLA) on the code demography project sponsored by the NSF grant.

I received my M.Eng. in CSE from Harvard University. I also worked as a research assistant with Prof. Glassman.

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Harvard Glassman Lab

Visualizing Examples of Deep Neural Networks at Scale

The ExampleNet is an interactive interface to explore various neural network design decisions. I conducted a within-subject study that proves the usefulness of ExampleNet.

Current Research

MIT CSAIL

VisMeet: Data-Enhanced Video Conferencing

VisMeet presents the interactive visualizations of the implicit online meeting data with the users. The between-subject study I conducted shows the effectiveness of it in building users' awareness of the meeting in a short time.

Current Research

Harvard Glassman Lab, UC Berkeley EECS

Comparing Programming Libraries through Examples with Concept Labels

Developed LibComp—an interactive user interface with concept hierarchy and labeled code examples to help developers compare the expressiveness and code complexity of multiple libraries.

Current Research

Harvard VCG

Exploring the Complexity of COVID-19 Visualizations

I use D3.js to generate a series of COVID-19 visualization with various complexity. We will design a user study to find the difference of calculated complexity and participants' conceptual complexity.

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