Ho Yin (Sam) Ng 吳浩賢
Ph.D. student in Informatics · The Pennsylvania State University ·
Crowd-AI Lab
Advised by Dr. Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang
Designing technologies that amplify human agency.
I work where human-centered design meets AI and language—building systems that keep communication clear and trustworthy, while ensuring AI doesn't homogenize language or erase individual voices.
Research Focus
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- Figure Captioning Personalized & automated figure caption generation for scientific papers. EMNLP 2025: Findings TACL 2026
- Human-AI Caption Writing How paper writers use AI-generated captions — thematic analyses of writing assistants. AI4Research @ AAAI 2025 ★ Best Paper In2Writing 2025
- Language Varieties Measuring LLM performance disparities across language varieties with contextually aligned reviews. NAACL 2025
- Color-Coded Reading Which color schemes help readers locate information in color-coded articles. IEEE VIS '24
- Immersive Haptics Encountered-type haptics & immersive VR training. MovableBag UbiComp/ISWC '22 ★ Best Paper SIGGRAPH Asia '22 TAICHI '22 ★ People's Choice 1st Hit Around IEEE TVCG 2025 PressySofties CSCW '22 TAICHI '22 ★ People's Choice 3rd PressyCube ICMEW '22
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Bio
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Informatics at Penn State's College of IST, working in the Crowd-AI Lab, advised by Dr. Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang. My research sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), applied to Scientific Communication — keeping scientific claims verifiable and authors' intent intact as generative AI becomes embedded in how research is produced and read. Before my Ph.D. I trained as an interaction designer (M.Des., Taipei Tech, in XR Lab, advised by Dr. Ping-Hsuan Han), which shapes how I build tools for researchers that are technically rigorous and genuinely usable.
- 2025 — PRESENT Ph.D. in Informatics The Pennsylvania State University advised by Dr. Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang
- 2024 M.S. in Informatics The Pennsylvania State University advised by Dr. Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang
- 2023 M.Des. in Interaction Design National Taipei University of Technology advised by Dr. Ping-Hsuan Han
- 2016 B.B.A. in Information Systems & Accounting The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Minors: Design & Social Science
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