LEE Yi-Chieh
Assistant Professor- Ph.D. (CS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021)
Yi-Chieh Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at NUS Computing. Before joining NUS, he was a researcher at NTT, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), CSCW, social computing, conversational user interfaces, and human-centered AI. He recently focused on designing AI conversational agents to promote mental well-being and behaviour change. He is passionate about bridging social impact and AI technologies; thus, he dedicates himself to creating new social interventions to facilitate human-AI interaction and generating recommendations for future technology design.
RESEARCH AREAS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW)
Human-centered AI
Conversational User Interfaces
RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH GROUPS
TEACHING INNOVATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Exploring Effects of Chatbot-based Social Contact on Reducing Mental Illness Stigma
- "I Hear You, I Feel You": Encouraging Deep Self-disclosure through a Chatbot
- Designing a Chatbot as a Mediator for Promoting Deep Self-Disclosure to a Real Mental Health Professional
- " We Gather Together We Collaborate Together": Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Chinese Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Online Communities on Weibo
- “So Close, yet So Far”: Exploring Sexual-minority Women’s Relationship-building via Online Dating in China
AWARDS & HONOURS
CSCW2022 Diversity & Inclusion Award
Cornell-NUS Global Strategic Collaboration Award
COURSES TAUGHT
CS3249
User Interface Development
CS5346
Information Visualisation