Houjiang Liu
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoujiang Liu is a design-focused researcher and experience designer with eight years blending ethnographic research, statistical analysis, and practical product design to improve technology and healthcare services for older adults. Currently a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at UT Austin, he applies MFA-trained experience design skills to projects spanning public health, urban human experience, and service design metrics. He has led UX efforts for deep learning tooling and large e-commerce platforms, translating complex ML workflows and retailer systems into usable interfaces. As a teacher and workshop facilitator, he has taught interaction design courses and run mobile eye-tracking studies, bringing observational rigor to design solutions. Notably, his work bridges hands-on prototyping and quantitative analysis to create measurable service improvements for seniors’ technology literacy.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Experience Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Experience Design at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Jilin University
Github Skills (1)
react5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NU-Center-for-Design/sonification
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:148 commits, 148 pushes in 2 years 2 months
JialingJia/houjiang-website
Aug 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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