I am a PhD student at University of Toronto Faculty of Information, advised by Professor Christoph Becker. My research interests are: human-computer interaction, design and data exploration support. My current project look into how urban data, visualizations and data exploration tools can support sensemaking and storytelling in sustainability advocacy.

In 2021, I worked with two amazing mentors Professor Lydia Chilton and Vivian Liu at the Columbia University Computational Design Lab. This has been an incredible experience for me to delve a little bit deeper into human-AI interaction and support tools for human creativity.

I graduated from Wellesley College, studying math and media arts and sciences (cs + design). I then obtained my MSc in urban planning at University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.

News

🏆 Jun. 2023: Received Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Fellowship
💻 May. 2023: Started my internship at Ontario Digital Service, working on AI accountability
🏆 Oct. 2022: Received Digital Curation Institute Fellowship

Publications

(* equal contribution)

Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a data curation and visualization platform

Eshta Bhardwaj*, Han Qiao*, Christoph Becker
Computing within Limits 2023

Thrive or Die? Imagining Urban Sustainability Data Explorations

Han Qiao, Christoph Becker
Workshop at CHI 2023 HCI for Climate Change

Opal: Multimodal Image Generation for News Illustration

Vivian Liu, Han Qiao, Lydia B. Chilton
UIST 2022

Initial Images: Using Image Prompts to Improve Subject Representation in Multimodal AI Generated Art

Han Qiao, Vivian Liu, Lydia B. Chilton
Creativity and Cognition 2022