Jinhe Wen

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“If ease of use was the only valid criterion, people would stick to tricycles and never try bicycles.”
-- D. Engelbart

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I will join the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a Ph.D. student. I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Qijia Shao.

My research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction, with a particular focus on Social Computing, Security & Privacy, Video Games, and Education. Specifically, I am passionate about (1) using mixed methods to understand sociotechnical challenges from a multi-stakeholder perspective and (2) developing practical, user-centered solutions.

I obtained my Master's degree in Data Science from the University of California San Diego🌴, where I was fortunate to work under the guidance of Prof. Haojian Jin and was honored as the Distinguished Mentee & Student. I am also grateful to have worked alongside Prof. Yaxing Yao and Prof. Tauhidur Rahman.

Before UCSD, I also spent beautiful years at Nanjing University🐳, where I earned a Bachelor's degree from the School of Physics. In my freshman year, I spent an unforgettable summer volunteering at a rural primary school, taught art & science classes, and conducted fieldwork on children’s mental health. I was also thrilled to lead a publicity team and design a commemorative magazine for the university's crosstalk club.

Teaching Data Science Students to Sketch Privacy Designs through Heuristics

Jinhe Wen*, Yingxi Zhao*, Wenqian Xu*, Yaxing Yao, Haojian Jin

46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"), 2025

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Predicting Quality of Video Gaming Experience Using Global-Scale Telemetry Data and Federated Learning

Zhongyang Zhang, Jinhe Wen, Zixi Chen, Dara Arbab, Sruti Sahani, Kent Giard, Bijan Arbab, Haojian Jin, Tauhidur Rahman

Proc. of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI PLAY, 2025

Folk Models of Loot Boxes in Video Games

Jinhe Wen, Zhongyang Zhang, Tuan M. Tran, Lianrui Mu, Tauhidur Rahman, Haojian Jin

Proc. of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 8(CHI PLAY), 2024, pp. 1-23

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Governing Open Vocabulary Data Leaks Using an Edge LLM through Programming by Example

Qiyu Li, Jinhe Wen, Haojian Jin

Proc. of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 8(4), 2024, pp. 1-31

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