Yen-chia Hsu
Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYen-chia Hsu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and a computer scientist with a foundation in architectural design who builds community-empowered AI systems to support hyper-local civic and public health engagement. With 14 years of experience spanning Carnegie Mellon, TU Delft, and industry-facing research labs, she combines empirical co-design with technical work on integrating diverse forms of human feedback into machine learning pipelines. Her projects emphasize deploying interactive AI in real-world local contexts—addressing environmental and social issues—while attending equally to social frameworks and algorithmic affordances. Beyond research, she contributes practical front-end work (e.g., a responsive project-website template) and maintains a track record of translating design thinking into reproducible, community-centered systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Bachelor's Degree, Architecture and Computer Science, GPA: 87.89/100 overall, Dual Bachelor's Degree, Architecture and Computer Science, GPA: 87.89/100 overall at National Cheng Kung UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
responsive-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yenchiah/project-website-template
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
A HTML/CSS Template for Building Projects or Personal Websites
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:187 commits, 32 PRs, 194 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yen-chia primarily focused on front-end development, making numerous updates to the HTML and CSS files. The contributions involved styling improvements, changes to class names, and the addition of new elements like buttons and a gallery. The user also worked on layout adjustments and responsive design elements, ensuring the website's usability and visual appeal. Moreover, there were file renaming and file path changes to improve the organization.
templatejquerycsscss-templatehtml-css
CMU-CREATE-Lab/smell-pittsburgh-rails
May 2016 - Dec 2020
simple API for sending/receiving smell reports for the Smell Pittsburgh project
Contributions:155 commits, 1 PR, 158 pushes in 4 years 7 months
apireportspittsburghsendingsimple-api
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