Yichuan Zhang

Projects

Things I have built

A selection of full-stack, applied AI, and community projects — favouring practical reliability over polish.

Project Timeline

Where I’ve spent my time, grouped by intent — foundational research, applied products, and communityinitiatives. Bars span each project’s active period; red means still in progress, gray means wrapped.

  • Current Work
  • Completed
Projects grouped by category, plotted from 2022 to 2026. Ongoing projects are red; completed projects are gray.
20222023202420252026

Research

Building knowledge and methods

Human-AI Collaboration in High-Risk Decision Domains with Eye Tracking

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.

Human-AI Collaboration in ATC — Contrail Avoidance with Eye Tracking

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.

CAS 2026 Paper Network

The first LLM-built paper network presented at a conference — see where your research sits, at a glance

Interdisciplinary Fusion Project

Cross-disciplinary collaboration platform with seminars, mixers, and co-creation workshops at UTokyo.

Applied / Product

Turning research into real-world value

Cruise Business Digital Transformation

End-to-end workflow with OCR, LLM validation, and a React + Python stack.

RealityAI

LLM-powered real estate analysis platform: data, retrieval, and product design.

Loomi — AI Creative Canvas

AI + art hackathon prototype — collect scattered inspirations, let a language model draw out relationships between them, and weave them into artworks.

Community / Learning

Growing together, sharing knowledge

Yujian Reading Circle

A decentralised reading community in Tokyo — 40+ sessions, 600+ participants across disciplines.

Portfolio Map

Projects positioned by research depth (Intellectual Merit) and real-world impact (Broader Impacts).

Human-AI Collaboration in High-Risk Decision Domains with Eye Tracking

HCI · AI · High-risk Decision

Human-AI Collaboration in ATC — Contrail Avoidance with Eye Tracking

ATC · Sustainability · Eye Tracking

CAS 2026 Paper Network

Research Network · Academia

Interdisciplinary Fusion Project

Interdisciplinary · Innovation

Cruise Business Digital Transformation

Business Analytics · DX

RealityAI

Product · Applied AI

Loomi — AI Creative Canvas

AI + Art · Hackathon · Creative Tools

Yujian Reading Circle

Community · Learning

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All Projects

  1. Radar planview display used in the ATC eye-tracking study — Fukuoka/Naha sector with live flight tracks
    ResearchResearch2026 – —

    Human-AI Collaboration in ATC — Contrail Avoidance with Eye Tracking

    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.

    Intellect
    8
    Impact
    9
    • Think Big
    • Dive Deep
    • Invent and Simplify
    • · ATC
    • · Eye Tracking
    • · Contrails
    • · Sustainability
    • · Human-AI Interaction
  2. Cruise system architecture
    Full-stack Engineer2024 – —

    Cruise Business Digital Transformation

    End-to-end workflow with OCR, LLM validation, and a React + Python stack.

    Intellect
    7
    Impact
    4
    • Ownership
    • Deliver Results
    • Dive Deep
    • · React
    • · TypeScript
    • · FastAPI
    • · PostgreSQL
    • · Document AI
    • · Gemini
  3. Yichuan wearing eye-tracking glasses, interacting with a Human-AI electricity-demand forecasting interface (SHAP interpretability + adjustment panel)
    ResearchResearch2023 – —

    Human-AI Collaboration in High-Risk Decision Domains with Eye Tracking

    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.

    Intellect
    9
    Impact
    9
    • Dive Deep
    • Learn and Be Curious
    • Think Big
    • Invent and Simplify
  4. Loomi cover — AI creative canvas title slide
    Prototype & Concept — Team とあるパンダ2026

    Loomi — AI Creative Canvas

    AI + art hackathon prototype — collect scattered inspirations, let a language model draw out relationships between them, and weave them into artworks.

    Intellect
    5
    Impact
    6
    • Invent and Simplify
    • Learn and Be Curious
    • Bias for Action
    • · AI/ML
    • · Product Design
    • · Prototype
    • · Multimodal
  5. CAS 2026 interactive 3D semantic map of accepted papers
    Co-creator (with team)2026

    CAS 2026 Paper Network

    The first LLM-built paper network presented at a conference — see where your research sits, at a glance

    Intellect
    8
    Impact
    8
    • Invent and Simplify
    • Think Big
    • Deliver Results
    • Learn and Be Curious
    • · LLM
    • · SPECTER Embeddings
    • · PCA
    • · 3D Visualization
    • · Semantic Network
    • · Data Visualization
  6. Interdisciplinary research startup project — team of doctoral students at the University of Tokyo
    Lead Organiser2025 – 2026

    Interdisciplinary Fusion Project

    Cross-disciplinary collaboration platform with seminars, mixers, and co-creation workshops at UTokyo.

    Intellect
    4
    Impact
    7
    • Ownership
    • Think Big
    • Earn Trust
    • · Community
    • · Web
  7. RealityAI product mockup
    Product Designer & Technical Contributor2025

    RealityAI

    LLM-powered real estate analysis platform: data, retrieval, and product design.

    Intellect
    5
    Impact
    3
    • Bias for Action
    • Learn and Be Curious
    • · LLM
    • · RAG
    • · CLIP
    • · Product
  8. Reading circle in session
    Founder & Organiser2022 – 2024

    Yujian Reading Circle

    A decentralised reading community in Tokyo — 40+ sessions, 600+ participants across disciplines.

    Intellect
    4
    Impact
    9
    • Customer Obsession
    • Think Big
    • Earn Trust
    • Ownership
    • · Community
    • · Operations