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
AI for Social Good Group
AI4SG (AI for Social Good) lab focus on designing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for social good. We believe that AI technologies have strong potential to bring benefits to our society.
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
CS6206
Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction