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Research Intern

Learning and Educational Technologies Research Unit, Kyoto University

Prof. Hiroaki Ogata, Prof. Chia-Yu Hsu; Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies.

• Initiated the collaboration and secured the placement independently, funded by the International PhD/Master's Students Co-Advising Project.
• Led a project on the validity of simulated students, accepted at ReLEAF@ICCE 2026 (first author).

Validity of LLMs as Simulated Students

Master's Thesis Research (in progress), Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

Advisors: Prof. Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Prof. Feng-Ming Tsao, and Prof. Hiroaki Ogata (Kyoto University).

• Recast the validity of an ability-conditioned LLM student simulator as a nomological network of four behavioral evidences: profile–behavior consistency, fidelity of error, boundary of competence, and stateful learning.
• Tested all four concurrently against real per-tier learner data from the PSLC DataShop Fractions 2012 corpus, using zero-shot prompting and a 2×2 fine-tuning ablation (reasoning × history).
• Found that fine-tuning with reasoning and history simulated students best, yet the competence paradox persisted and the learning mechanism was not reproduced; this first part was accepted at ReLEAF@ICCE 2026 (first author).

Teaching Assistant, Social Robotics

Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

Prof. Hsiu-Ping Yueh.

• Led 18+ hours of TA sessions across 4 semesters: literature review, user research, prototyping, and programming for social robotic systems.

Research Assistant

Social Lab Human-Robot Interaction Group, National Taiwan University

Prof. Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Prof. Weijane Lin; Department of Psychology.

• Designed the simulated-student evaluation for an intelligent robot tutor (Enterprise Information Systems, 2026) and the manipulation check for a robot-personality study (International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2026).
• Sole developer of research systems deployed with real users in a museum, a library, and with older adults.
• Held 2 workshops on multimodal data analysis and voice-based social robots and 4 on social robot programming; mentored 3 undergraduate projects.

M.S.

National Taiwan University

Psychology

• GPA: 3.87/4.3
• Applied Linear Regression
• Experimental Design
• Neural and Behavioral Modeling
• Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience

B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies of Human-Computer Interaction

National Taiwan University

University Interdisciplinary Bachelor's Program

• Minor: Psychology
• Thesis: Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Robot for the Elderly Based on Social Penetration Theory

B.S. in Agriculture

National Taiwan University

Department of Forestry and Resource Conservation, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture

Does an Ability-Conditioned LLM Student Simulator Hold Up as a Construct?

1st Workshop on Trustworthy Educational Data Sharing and Secondary Use: The ReLEAF Data Challenge, ICCE 2026

First author. Accepted; to appear.

Empathic AI-Powered Cognitive Robots as Tutors: Assessing Their Impact on Learning Performance in Accelerated Learning Contexts

Educational Psychology

Fourth author. Under revision.

Adaptive Empathy Evaluation: An Intelligent Social Robot Tutor with Multimodal Assessment

Enterprise Information Systems

Second author.

What Makes a Robot Feel Affective? Verbal Cue Types and the Role of Agreeableness in Older Adults' Perception of Robot Personality

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Second author.

Assessment and Evaluation of Self-Disclosure, Application of Behavior Construct and Semantic Analysis

16th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH 2025)

First author.

ECRobot, a robot tutor (sole developer)

An intelligent tutoring system with an iPad app (Swift) for handwriting input, a NAO robot (Qi Python) as voice user interface, and a FastAPI backend. Used in a between-subjects learning study.

• Instantiated prospect theory as an empathetic feedback algorithm for the robot tutor.
• Designed the student simulation pipeline and evaluation method, and wrote the first draft of the paper.

Social Robot Design Platform (initiator & sole developer)

A web-based end-user programming tool that implements a design language for social robot behavior, derived from developing 5 social robotic systems.

• Refined with four groups of student researchers in a research-through-design process over 6 months.
• Deployed in a laboratory experiment for over a month.

TouchHear, an AR assistive learning system (sole developer)

Real-time fingertip tracking on a depth camera that turns printed images into touch-responsive audio surfaces for visually impaired learners.

• Replaced the experimenter-in-the-loop step of the original protocol with automatic tracking.
• Built an authoring interface that lets non-programmers map audio to regions of any printed image.
• Designed the printed template's ArUco markers to carry both depth-plane calibration and project identity, making each sheet self-describing.

Companion robot for older adults

Data analysis and front-end development.

• Operationalized discourse affectiveness into measurable linguistic indicators and validated the manipulation with NLP-based checks.
• Developed the front-end app that presents the robot's responses.
• Sustained conversations averaging 15 minutes per session and 30 minutes per participant.

International PhD/Master's Students Co-Advising Project (NT$250,000)

National Taiwan University

Funded a three-month residency at Kyoto University, co-advised by Prof. Hiroaki Ogata and Prof. Chia-Yu Hsu.

College of Science Travel Grant and Scholarship (NT$15,000)

College of Science, National Taiwan University

Supported the Kyoto University residency.

Cathay Charity Foundation 2025 Excellence Scholarship (NT$160,000)

Cathay Charity Foundation

Supported the companion robot for older adults.