Ya-fan Chen
Doctoral Student at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolYa-fan Chen is a doctoral student and software engineer based in Jena with nine years of industry experience and active research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She combines academic rigor with hands-on front-end development, contributing UX-focused fixes to the widely used open-source plotly.js charting library to improve interactive ternary plots. Her work shows attention to detail and collaboration—resolving cursor and drag-mode behaviors that enhance visualization usability. Trained at National Central University, she brings a methodical, research-informed approach to building robust, user-facing interfaces for scientific and data-driven applications.
9 years of coding experience
National Central University
Github Skills (10)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
d3js10
front-end-development10
chartjs10
charting10
charts10
plotly9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/plotly.js
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ya-fan's contributions primarily focus on fixing a missing cursor issue within the ternary plot functionality of the charting library. They modified JavaScript code related to updating the cursor style based on the drag mode, ensuring the correct cursor (move or crosshair) is displayed. Further commits involved cleaning up and refining the code for the ternary plot, indicating a focus on improving the user experience and visual interaction with the chart. The user also collaborated with other developers on these code improvements.
chartsdashcharting-librarychartwebgl
materialdigital/glasdigital-ontology
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Repository for the glass ontology developed in 'GlasDigital'
Contributions:1 review, 42 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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