Dr. Chen-Hsiang (Jones) Yu is a full Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. He is also an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Dynamical Biomarkers, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. He earned B.Eng. and M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) from Tamkang University (1998) and National Taiwan University (2000), and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT (2013) under Prof. Rob Miller’s guidance. He won Blittersdorf Faculty Award, Sagan Faculty Fund Grants Award, two times of Faculty Grants Awards, six times of Presidential EPIC Mini Grants Awards, IEEE CCWC Best Paper Award, ACM UIST Best Poster Award, ACM CHI Student Research Competition, and several programming and entrepreneurship competitions. He has 60+ peer-reviewed publications.
During his work in industry, he has joined to develop more than 12 commercialized mobile phones and several mobile applications. His research in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) focuses on mobile health, AI on mobiles, web customization and automation, and readability enhancement.