Yi-Chieh Lee is an Assistant Professor of Science at Yale-NUS College. Before joining Yale-NUS, he was a researcher at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan. He earned his PhD in 2021 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Asst Prof Lee’s research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-supported creative work (CSCW), Social Computing, Conversational User Interfaces, and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI). He recently focused on designing AI conversational agents to promote mental well-being and behavioural change. He is passionate about bridging social impact and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies; thus, he dedicates himself to creating new social interventions to facilitate human-AI interaction and generating recommendations for future technology design.
Research Specialisations
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Social Computing
- Human-Centered AI
- Conversational User Interface
Lee Y C, Yamashita N, Huang Y, & Fu W (2020, April). ” I Hear You, I Feel You”: encouraging deep self-disclosure through a chatbot. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-12).
Cui Y, Yamashita N, Liu M, & Lee Y C (2022, April). “So Close, yet So Far”: Exploring Sexual-minority Women’s Relationship-building via Online Dating in China. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15).
Lee Y C, Yamashita N, & Huang Y (2020). Designing a chatbot as a mediator for promoting deep self-disclosure to a real mental health professional. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW1), 1-27.
