PhD Candidate in Human–AI Collaboration
I design intelligent systems that strengthen human decision-making — combining multimodal behavioral analysis with cognitive state modeling to make AI collaboration trustworthy and useful in practice.
Advised by Professor Kazuo Hiekata
Recent
Paper accepted at CIKM 2026 — Sensing How Users Adapt to AI Decision Support: A Multimodal Eye and Mouse Tracking Study
Built and presented the first LLM-powered paper network at a conference — CAS 2026.
An interactive 3D semantic map (51 papers · 125 links; SPECTER embeddings + PCA) that lets every author see where their work sits. A team effort.
Paper accepted at IJHCI — Calibrated Intervention in Human-AI Collaborative Forecasting.
Currently working on
Modelling human behaviour in high-risk decision workflows using eye-tracking data — the empirical arm of the PhD, spanning six papers across IJHCI, TOCHI, TE, and INCOSE CAS.
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Studying how air traffic controllers process contrail-avoidance guidance on radar displays — and how AI decision-support can surface climate-relevant information without adding to their workload.
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End-to-end workflow with OCR, LLM validation, and a React + Python stack.
A decentralised reading community in Tokyo — 40+ sessions, 600+ participants across disciplines.
LLM-powered real estate analysis platform: data, retrieval, and product design.
Writing
Zhang, Y., Hiekata, K., & Nakashima, T.
Published · International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Sensing How Users Adapt to AI Decision Support: A Multimodal Eye and Mouse Tracking Study
Y. Zhang
Accepted · 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)
Process-Informed Crowd Selection: Recovering Collective Prediction Gains Under AI Anchoring Through Eye-Tracking-Based Evidence Engagement Estimation
Y. Zhang, K. Hiekata, T. Nakashima, Q. Shao
Preprint · Under Review · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Y. Zhang, K. Hiekata, T. Nakashima, Q. Shao
Accepted · 32nd Int. Conf. Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE2025)
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