Hi, I'm Chaoran Chen

I’m a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I am co-advised by Dr. Toby Jia-Jun Li and Dr. Fanny Yanfang Ye. Before joining ND, I received my M.S degrees in Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science from Carnegie Mellon University. I received B.Eng in Industrial Design from Tongji University.

My work falls in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, Graph Learning, and Usable Privacy, where I use human-centered methods to design, build, and evaluate human-AI collaborative systems to strengthen the trustworthiness and explainability, ranging from mobile ads promotion to privacy paradox. Besides, I’m also passionate about leveraging the state-of-the-art AI techniques (e.g. generative models) to benefit a variety of human needs and optimizing user experience accordingly.