PhD Student
I am a Ph.D candidate at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Dr. Yan Zhang. I graduated from Peking University in 2021 with two B.S. degrees in Information Management and Economics.
My research interests lie in the intersection of HCI, Mental health, and Emotional well-being. I explore how the social, cultural, technological, and identity-related factors collectively shape people's online and offline emotion disclosure and care-seeking experiences around mental well-being. I use both in-depth ethnographic and large-scale computational methods. Some of my ongoing projects look into, understanding how marginalized identity influences people's mental health care-seeking experiences
and designing wellbeing-centered video-sharing platforms and GenAI applications (e.g., chatbots and image-generation) for marginalized populations.
Jiaying (Lizzy) Liu, Yunlong Wang, Yao Lyu, Yiheng Su, Shuo Niu, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, and Yan Zhang. 2024. Harnessing LLMs for Automated Video Content Analysis: An Exploratory Workflow of Short Videos on Depression. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 190–196. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681850
Liu, Jiaying, and Yan Zhang. "Exploring Young Adults' Mental Health Help‐Seeking Journey: Preliminary Findings on Resource Navigation Behavior." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61.1 (2024): 570-575.
Best Paper Awards from ASIS&T 2024 SIG-USE and SIG-HLTH
Best PhD Project Honorable Mention at ICHI24