Humphrey Yang

Mobile | +1 (725) 200 1192 

email | hanliny@andrew.cmu.edu

email | humphrey_yang@msn.com

website | https://humphrey-yang.squarespace.com (Personal Portfolio)

website | https://www.morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/people/humphrey (CMU Morphing Matter Lab)

Education

2019 - 

Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction, Ph.D.

2017 - 2019

Carnegie Mellon University, Computational Design, M.S.

2009 - 2014

National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), Architecture: Engineering Division, B.S.

Professional Experience

2017 -

Researcher/Research Assistant | CMU Morphing Matter Lab

2016 - 2017

Project Designer | NCKU C-Hub

2016

Assistant Designer | NCKU Campus Planning Committee

2014 - 2015

Alternative Military Serviceman | Taiwan Department of Land Administration

2013 - 2013

Design Intern | Tomita Structural Design, Taiwan

2011 - 2014

Digital Factory Administrator | NCKU College of Design

Teaching Experiences

2021

Programming Usable Interfaces (TA, Instructor: Alexandra Ion)

2018

Inquiry into Computation, Architecture, and Design (TA, Instructor: Daniel Cardoso Llach)

Fundamental of Computational Design (TA, Instructor: Daniel Cardoso Llach)

2017

Generative Modeling (TA, Instructor: Joshua Bard)

Honors and Awards

2021

Fellowship in Digital Health | Center for Machine Learning and Health, CMU

2020

Graduate Student Study Abroad Scholarship | Taiwan

2018

Honorary Mention | Ars Electronica STARTS PRIZE

2nd place | CMU Siemens FutureMakers Challenge

2014

1st place | Taoyuan Airport City Student Competition, Taiwan

Publications

Freeform Fabrication of Fluidic Edible Materials. CHI 2021

Morphing Pasta and Beyond. Science Advances

SimuLearn: Fast and Accurate Simulator to Support Morphing Materials Design and Workflows. UIST 2020

Thermoplastic Fiber Reinforced Composite Material Characterization and Precise Finite Element Analysis for 4D Printing. Journal of Computer-Aided Design 2020

Morphlour: Personalized Flour-based Morphing Food Induced by Dehydration or Hydration Method. UIST2019

A-line: Printing Morphing Linear Composite Structures. CHI 2019

4DMesh: 4D Printing Morphing Non-Developable Mesh Surfaces. UIST 2018

Printed Paper Actuator: A Low-cost Reversible Actuation and Sensing Method for Shape-Changing Interfaces. CHI 2018

Skills

Design

Digital fabrication

Physical Prototyping

Mechanical engineering and analysis

Biomedical engineering

Front- and back-end development

Machine Learning and reinforcement learning

Computer graphics

Research Interest

Computational Design and Fabrication

Shape-Changing Interfaces

Wearables and Haptics

Material and Mechanical Simulation

Applied Machine Learning

Human-AI Partnership

Biomedical Tissue/ Biohybrid Engineering