Ti-chung Cheng
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTi-chung Cheng is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UIUC with a decade of experience bridging human-computer interaction research and practical software engineering. He has led HCI projects on preference elicitation, human-data interaction, and smart-home privacy, building interactive systems (e.g., a Quadratic Voting-based attitude elicitation tool) and evaluating them with mixed-method experiments and Bayesian analyses. Ti-chung has applied ML and NLP in industry, from Mandarin NER and large-scale music-content pipelines to LLM-driven team-matching and studies of generative propaganda at Microsoft. He pairs strong full‑stack prototyping skills (Nest.js, Angular, MongoDB, TypeScript, Python) with rigorous experimental design and qualitative coding. Comfortable scaling systems for production and research contexts, he has interned at Microsoft and Salesforce and published distributed-systems work from CUHK. Fluent in cross-cultural research contexts (Made in Taiwan, CUHK alum) he brings both engineering depth and nuanced regional insight to socio-technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at National Tainan First Senior HighDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, Mandarin, Chinese
Github Skills (63)
vscode-debugger10
hotkeys10
vscode-extension10
salesforcedx10
apex10
phrase10
salesforce10
console9
lightning9
jupyterlab9
windows9
conemu9
command-line9
lexicon9
vscode9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
a2975667/canvas_grader
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cuhk-tsa/CUHK-TSA-handbook
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:201 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 3 years
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