Chao Zhang
Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolChao Zhang is an Assistant Professor and behavioral-data scientist with a decade of experience bridging human-centered research and digital technology design. With a PhD focused on within-person processes of lifestyle behavior change and a background in UX research and industrial design, he combines rigorous experimental methods, experience sampling tools, and machine learning to model self-control, habit formation, and decision-making. He led the development of an open-source mobile experience-sampling app tied to his doctoral work and has collaborated closely with industry research teams at Philips. Comfortable in interdisciplinary teams, Chao translates theory into practical digital interventions and predictive models that inform product and academic directions. Based in Eindhoven, he seeks roles where analytic depth and human-centered design advance real-world behavior change solutions. An understated strength is his ability to weave qualitative insights into formal computational models, making complex human behavior actionable.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Human-Technology Interaction, Cum Laude, Master's Degree, Human-Technology Interaction, Cum Laude at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology at Central China Normal UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Industrial Design, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Industrial Design at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
notification8
cordova-ios-plugin8
cordova-plugin8
phonegap7
local-notifications6
cordova5
ios4
user-notifications3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
forzaz/Mobile-Experience-Sampling-Master
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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