Summary
Ti-chung Cheng is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UIUC with a decade of experience bridging human-computer interaction research and practical software engineering. He has led HCI projects on preference elicitation, human-data interaction, and smart-home privacy, building interactive systems (e.g., a Quadratic Voting-based attitude elicitation tool) and evaluating them with mixed-method experiments and Bayesian analyses. Ti-chung has applied ML and NLP in industry, from Mandarin NER and large-scale music-content pipelines to LLM-driven team-matching and studies of generative propaganda at Microsoft. He pairs strong full‑stack prototyping skills (Nest.js, Angular, MongoDB, TypeScript, Python) with rigorous experimental design and qualitative coding. Comfortable scaling systems for production and research contexts, he has interned at Microsoft and Salesforce and published distributed-systems work from CUHK. Fluent in cross-cultural research contexts (Made in Taiwan, CUHK alum) he brings both engineering depth and nuanced regional insight to socio-technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at National Tainan First Senior High
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, Mandarin, Chinese