CHING-YI TSAI

About

I’m a 3rd-year CS Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Parastoo Abtahi. My research aims to make situated interaction with AI systems such as AI glasses usable and trustworthy. This includes input and feedback techniques that resolve uncertainty as people walk, point, and talk, as well as assistance that helps users control what the system captures, remembers, and shares while maintaining privacy and utility. I have demonstrated these ideas through real-time multimodal systems, from on-device perception pipelines to hardware devices, and evaluated them in user studies.

My work has been published at ACM CHI and UIST and recognized with one Best Paper Award and one Honorable Mention Award.

Previously, I received my M.S. degree from National Taiwan University, where I was advised by Prof. Mike Yen Chen. I was also a research assistant at the University of Waterloo’s HCI Lab, advised by Prof. Daniel Vogel, and at National Taiwan University’s CPL Lab, advised by Prof. Lung-Pan Cheng.

Outside of research, I’m an enthusiastic jazz saxophonist.

Selected Work

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2026 NOV

Attended UIST'26 in Detroit, Michigan, USA

2026 JAN

One first-authored and one co-authored papers accepted to CHI'26

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