About Me
I'm a PhD candidate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (my "official" webpage). I'm fortunately advised by Dr. Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Dr. Rachel F. Adler. I also work closely with Dr. Ted Underwood at UIUC, Dr. Xin Tong at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and Dr. Jinjun Xiong at the University at Buffalo. I'm affiliated with the Governance Lab on Sociotechnical Systems (GLOSS), the Information Experience and Accessibility Lab, and DKU HCI Lab.
I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Hongyi Honor College at Wuhan University, China. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Dr. Justin Hsu, Fudan University, advised by Dr. Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Westlake University, advised by Dr. Yue Zhang, and the University of Maryland-College Park, advised by Dr. Furong Huang. I was a research intern at Tencent, Bytedance, and Zall Research Institute of Smart Commerce.
I'm on the academic job market, looking for a tenure-track faculty position in Information Science or Computer Science!
Research Interests
My research interests are broadly in human-computer interaction, computer accessibility, AI ethics, and computing education. I aspire to promote ICT/AI experience for vulnerable populations through a situated understanding as well as design, education, and governance interventions. More recently, my research has focused on generative AI ethics and accessibility design and education.
Recent News
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- [10/2024] 🏅 Our paper on contextual differential privacy perceptions is listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list (60 days) for: Information Policy, Ethics, Access & Use eJournal, Human-Computer Interaction eJournal!
- [10/2024] Our article on LLM use in computing education appears in XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students!
- [10/2024] One paper accepted to SIGCSE! See you in Pittsburgh!
- [10/2024] One policy comment on managing misuse risk for dual-use foundation models presented to U.S. AI Safety Institute.
- [09/2024] One paper accepted to CSCW! See you in Bergen, Norway!
- [09/2024] 🏆 Our ASIS&T paper wins an Honorable Mention Best Long Paper Award (2nd of all 46 papers, 4.3%)!
- [08/2024] I receive a Luther Henderson Fellowship!
- [08/2024] One workshop proposal accepted to ASSETS! The website is up. Submit your best papers!
- [08/2024] I receive an NSF Travel Grant Award to attend PrivaCI Symposium. See you in Rutgers University!
- [07/2024] One paper accepted to PrivaCI Symposium! See you in Rutgers University!
Award-Winning Papers
1. [ASIS&T ’24 Proceeding] Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Chunyu Liu, Jingwen Shan, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler. 2024.
Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games.
In 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
🏆 Honorable Mention Best Long Paper Award (2nd of all 46 papers, 4.3%)
2. [HICSS ’23 Proceeding]
Mengyi Wei and Zhixuan Zhou. 2023.
AI Ethics Issues in Real World: Evidence from AI Incident Database.
In 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
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🏆 Best Paper Award (11/678, 1.6%)
3. [CSCW ’23 Proceeding]
Xinru Tang, Xianghua Ding, and Zhixuan Zhou. 2023.
Towards Equitable Online Participation: A Case of Older Adult Content Creators' Role Transition on Short-form Video Sharing Platforms.
In 26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).
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🏆 Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion (15/263, 5.7%)