Caifan D
PhD Researcher, UX HCI Focus at The University of Texas at Austin
United States
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Top SchoolCaifan D is a PhD researcher in UX and HCI with 8+ years of experience designing and running end-to-end, mixed-methods research that translates into practical tools, open-source systems, and policy-relevant insights. They blend qualitative depth (70+ hours of interviews, longitudinal studies) with quantitative and computational skills (R, Python, SQL, ML, text analysis) to tackle ambiguous product spaces and technically specialized user groups. At UT Austin they led multi-stakeholder programs, launched interactive systems like CiteAs, and guided teams of up to 22 people while authoring 20+ publications and teaching UX/HCI to hundreds of students. Known for insisting empathy be operationalized through visible, repeatable research processes, they bridge academia, industry, and government to shape ecosystem-level tooling and research roadmaps. An unusual strength is pairing high-level strategy with hands-on data pipeline and survey management experience—from citywide 11,000-response studies to open-source research infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Exchange Lettre Moderne, Academic Exchange Lettre Moderne at Université Paris NanterreDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Xiamen University
Chinese, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
multilabel-classification10
facade10
health10
python10
pdf10
machine-learning10
data-management10
sustainability10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
crf10
active-learning10
data-science9
unix9
software-design9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caifand/softcite-dataset
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 135 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
howisonlab/softcite-dataset
Feb 2018 - May 2021
An annotated dataset of software mentions in scholarly articles.
Contributions:3 releases, 403 commits, 143 PRs in 3 years 3 months
scholarly-articlesdata-managementactive-learningdatasetmultilabel-classification
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