CV - School of Computer Science

LISA LIXIU YU
Human Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Crowdsourcing, Design, Human Centered Computing
2012-Present
2008-2011
2008-2011
Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,
NJ.
Research Assistant – Advisor: Jeffrey V. Nickerson
EDUCATION
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems
Peking University, Beijing, China
M.A. in Public Policy Analysis
2002-2006
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
B.A. in Management; minor in Philosophy and Logic
Journal Articles
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Post-doctoral fellow – Mentors: Robert Kraut and Aniket Kittur
2006-2008
Dissertation
[email protected]
www.lisayu.org
PUBLICATIONS
Crowd Idea Generation. Best Dissertation Award in the Howe School of Technology
Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2012.
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J.V. An Internet Scale Idea Generation System. ACM
Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 3, 1, Article 2, 24 pages, 2013.
Nickerson, J. V., Corter, J. E., Tversky, B., Rho, Y-J., Zahner, D., Yu, L. Cognitive
Tools Shape Thought: Diagrams in Design, Cognitive Processing 14, 3 (2013), pp. 255272.
Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., IT as open innovation enabler: a distributed
innovation model. Management of Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) (in
preparation).
Peer-Reviewed
Conference
Papers
Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., Encouraging “Outside-the-box” thinking in Crowd
Innovation. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’15).
ACM Press (submitted).
Chan, J., Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Dow, S., D., Mining analogies with crowds and
computation. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’15).
ACM Press (submitted).
Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., Searching for analogical ideas with crowds. ACM
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’14). ACM Press.
Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., Distributed analogical idea generation: innovating
with crowds. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’14).
ACM Press. Honorable Mention Award.
Lisa Lixiu Yu, CV, Page 1 of 5 Yu, L., Andre, P., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., A comparison of social, learning, and
financial strategies on crowd engagement and output quality. ACM Conference on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’14). New York: ACM Press.
Yu, L., Kittur, A., and Kraut, R. E., Distributed analogical idea generation: innovating
with crowds. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’14)
in CSCWhat’s Next session. New York: ACM Press.
Yu, L., Nickerson, J.V., and Sakamoto, Y. Collective creativity: where we are and
where we might go. Collective Intelligence Conference, 2012.
Tversky, B., Corter, J.E., Yu, L., Mason, D. and Nickerson, J.V., Representing
Category and Continuum: Visualizing Thought. Seventh Annual International
Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams’12) Best Paper
Award
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J.V., Cooks or Cobblers? Crowd Creativity through
Combination. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’11).
ACM Press.
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J.V., Generating Creative Ideas through Crowds: An
Experimental Study of Combination. In Proceedings of the International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS’11).
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J.V., Combining Concept Maps to Catalyze Creativity. In ACM
SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC’11). ACM Press.
Yu, L. and Sakamoto, Y., Feature Selection in Crowd Creativity. In Proceedings of
Human Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII’11). Springer.
Sakamoto Y., Tanaka, Y. Yu, L. and Nickerson, J. The Crowdsourcing Design Space.
In Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII’11).
Springer.
Tversky, B., Corter, J.E., Yu, L., Mason, D. and Nickerson, J.V., Visualizing Thought:
Mapping Category and Continuum. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci’11).
Yu, L., Nickerson, J.V. and Tversky, B., Discovering Perceptions of Personal Social
Networks through Diagrams, Sixth Annual International Conference on the Theory and
Application of Diagrams (Diagrams’10). Springer, LNAI 5223, 2010.
Nickerson, J. V., Tversky, B., Corter, J.E., Yu, L. and Mason, D., Thinking with
Networks. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (Cogsci’10).
Nickerson, J.V., Zahner, D., Corter, J.E., Tversky, B., Yu, L., and Rho, Y.J. Matching
Mechanisms to Situations through the Wisdom of the Crowd. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS’09).
Peer-reviewed
Book Chapters
Nickerson, J.V. and Yu, L. Going Meta: Design space and evaluation space in software
design, van der Hoek, A., and Petre, M. (eds.) Software Designers in Action, CRC
Press, 2013.
Tversky, B., Corter, J.E., Yu, L., Mason, D., and Nickerson, J. V. Representing
Category and Continuum: Visualizing Thought. In Diagrammatic Representation and
Lisa Lixiu Yu, CV, Page 2 of 5 Inference, P. T. Cox, B. Plimmer, P. Rodgers, (eds). Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, 7352/2012, LNAI 2012 pp. 23–34.
Sakamoto Y., Tanaka, Y., Yu, L. and Nickerson, J. V. The Crowdsourcing Design
Space. In D. Schmorrow and C. Fidopiastis (Eds). Foundations of Augmented
Cognition: Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, 6780 LNAI, Springer, Berlin, 2011, 346-355.
Yu, L. and Sakamoto Y., Feature Selection in Crowd Creativity. In D. Schmorrow and
C. Fidopiastis (Eds). Foundations of Augmented Cognition: Directing the Future of
Adaptive Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6780 LNAI, Springer, Berlin,
2011, 383-394.
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J. V. Discovering the Perception of Technology through
Diagrams. In Ashok K. Goel, Mateja Jamnik and N. Hari Narayanan (Eds.),
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6170
LNAI, Springer, Berlin, 2011, 352-354.
Peer-reviewed
Workshop
Papers
Yu, L., Next Generation of Crowd Innovation Systems: a Distributed Perspective. In
Workshop on Back to the Future of Organizational Work: Crowdsourcing and Digital
Work Marketplaces at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW’14).
Yu, L., Sakamoto, Y. and Nickerson, J.V., Feature Propagation in Idea Networks. In
Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN’11).
Nickerson, J.V., Sakamoto, Y. and Yu, L., Structures for Creativity: The
Crowdsourcing of Design. In Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation at
the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'11).
Nickerson J.V. and Yu, L. Crowds and Machines: Systems for Social Creativity. In
Workshop on Semi-Automated Creativity: Software as a Creative Collaborator at ACM
SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC’11).
Yu, L., Nickerson, J.V., Corter, J.E., and Tversky, B. The Shifting Shape of
Collaboration: The Effect of Hierarchy on the Topology of Communication Plans. In
The ninth Annual SIG IS Cognitive Research Exchange Workshop, 2010.
Nickerson, J.V. and Yu, L. There Is Actually a Car: Perspective Taking and Evaluation
in Software-intensive Systems Design Conversations. Studying Professional Software
Design, A NSF-Sponsored International Workshop, 2010.
Yu, L. and Nickerson, J.V., Discovering the Perception of Technology through
Diagrams. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Pragmatist Information
System Research Workshop at the International Conference on Information Systems,
2009.
Research
Posters
Visualizing Crowd Creativity. In Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in
Science and Education, 2011.
Crowd Creativity through Combination. In NSF Workshop on Social Computational
Systems, 2011.
Feature Propagation in Idea Networks. In Workshop on Information in Networks
(WIN’11).
Lisa Lixiu Yu, CV, Page 3 of 5 Seminar
Organizing
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Organizing the Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University
(http://cmu-crowd.blogspot.com/p/about-seminar.html), 2012 – present
Workshop
mentorship
Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) Crowdsourcing Doctoral
Seminar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013
Doctoral
Consortium
Doctoral Consortium of the NSF Workshop on Social Computational Systems, 2011
Doctoral Consortium of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition
(CC’11), 2011
Doctoral Consortium of the Ninth Annual SIG IS Cognitive Research Exchange
Workshop, 2010
Doctoral Consortium of the Seventh Annual International Conference on the Theory
and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams’10), 2010
Industry
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Collaboration with Quirky.com (a crowd-sourced innovation company), 2012-present
PRESS
New Scientist, “Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd”
ACM TechNews
Wired Magazine, “For ‘creativity’, just add ‘crowd’”
INVITED TALKS
Google, Mountain View, CA
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Hong Kong, China
Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) Crowdsourcing Doctoral
Seminar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Quirky.com, New York City
Bosch Research and Technology Center North America, Pittsburgh
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
Crowd Creativity through Combination, Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, Stevens
Institute of Technology, NJ
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar funding from the Bosch Research and Technology Center
North America, Pittsburgh
Best Dissertation Award in Stevens Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention Award, CHI
Best Paper Award, Diagrams
Outstanding Research Assistant, Stevens Institute of Technology
Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (Competitive NSF-funded research
institute)
Scholarship for the Doctoral Consortium in ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and
Cognition (CC’11)
Student Funding for the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and
Education (Gordon’11)
Scholarship for the NSF Workshop on Social Computational Systems
Scholarship for the NSF International Workshop on Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning
for Design Creativity (SDC'10)
Student Funding for the Seventh Annual International Conference on the Theory and
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TEACHING
Co-teaching Social Web, Carnegie Mellon University
Teaching Introduction to Programming, Stevens Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant for Jeffrey Nickerson, Information Systems Design, Stevens Institute
of Technology
Teaching Assistant for Jeffrey Nickerson, Information Systems Design, Stevens Institute
of Technology
Teaching Assistant for Edward Stohr, Business Process Management, Stevens Institute
of Technology
Teaching Assistant for Bin Yu, Statistics in Social Science, Peking University
MENTORING
Gracie Fang, B.S. Computer Science, Wellesley College
LingZhang Jiang, B.S., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Matthew K. Hong, M.S. Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon
Thomson Yeh, B.S., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Charles Ducauze, M.S., Management of Information Systems, Stevens Institute of
Technology
Megan Webb, B.S., Management of Information Systems, Stevens Institute of
Technology
2012
2007
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Intern in the Bosch Research and Technology Center North America, Pittsburgh
Intern in the Development and Research Center of the China Geological Survey,
Beijing, China
Conference
Program
committees
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction (ChineseCHI), 2014,
2015
Book Review
Daren C. Brabham: Crowdsourcing. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines,
2014
Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC)
Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM)
International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS)
IEEE Internet Computing
Crowdsourcing magazine
Reviewing
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