I am a PhD student in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Yun Huang. I have a master’s degree in Public Policy Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's in Political Science (International Relations) and Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University.
My research interests are broadly in human-computer interaction, usable privacy, human-AI value alignment, and responsible AI. My current work focuses on developing tools to 1) help practitioners identify and address potential privacy risks throughout the AI development lifecycle, and 2) educate students about responsible AI practices.
In my free time, I am passionate about studying, reading, and learning about policy and politics (recent interest: cognitive warfare, with a particular focus on information control in both authoritarian and democratic regimes).
Feel free to reach out if you're interested—I'm happy to chat about AI privacy risks and human-AI value Alignment. Contact me at yuju2@illinois.edu.
Publications
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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Yu-Ju Yang, Thomas Serban von Davier, Jodi Forlizzi, Sauvik Das. (2024). Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). 🏆 Best Paper Award
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Yu-Ju Yang, Li-Fei Kung, Wei Jeng. (2023). “Design, Design, and Design Again”: An Information-Architecture Redesign Workflow from Case Studies of a Government Portal and a Learning-Management System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham (iConference’23).
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Yu-Wen Huang, Yu-Ju Yang, Wei Jeng. (2022). User Perception and Eye Movement on A Pandemic Data Visualization Dashboard. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (AS&IST’22).
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Yi-Ru Shih, Yu-Ju Yang, Wei Jeng. (2022). Factors Influencing Criminologists' Open Research Data Practices: Trust, Contract, and Value. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (AS&IST’22).
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Yu-Chen Chen, Kai-Hsin Chiu, Yu-Ju Yang, Tsai-Ping Chang, Li-Fei Kung, Kai-Yuan Lin. (2021). SiteSCAN: Intuitive Exchange of Spatial Information in Mixed Reality. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI’21).
Preprint
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Hua Shen, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Yu-Ju Yang, Tanushree Mitra, Yun Huang. (2024). ValueCompass: A Framework of Fundamental Values for Human-AI Alignment. arXiv:2409.09586
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Wei Jeng, Yu-Ju Yang, Hong-Chun Chen, Yi-Jie Yang, Yi-Ru Shih. (2023). Boundary Negotiating Artifacts to Envision the Desired Research Data Infrastructure toward Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Science. In Submission.