Hao Yan

Interests Embodied Conversational Agent, Speech Interface, Human Computer Interaction

Highlights Research: Embodied Conversational Agent, Speech System, Machine Translation

Programming: Java, XML, Servlet, JSP, C/C++, Visual Basic

Education MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA

Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences, June 2000. GPA: 4.8/5.0

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY Beijing, China

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, June 1998. GPA: 90/100

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY Beijing, China

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, June 1995. GPA: 87/100

Experience ORACLE CORPORATION Redwood Shores, CA

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Mobile & Embedded Products. July 2000 to present

Selected Projects: (1) Device manager and server manager for Oracle Self-Service Mobile Application Server 1.0; (2) Page Model and MobileXML phone renderer for Oracle Self-Service Mobile Application Server 2.0; (3) XForms Processor on Windows CE device.

MIT MEDIA LABORATORY Cambridge, MA

Research Assistant. July 1998 to June 2000

Research focusing on interactive human-computer dialogue system. Master Thesis: Paired Speech and Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents.

Selected Projects: (1) Embodied Conversational Agent: REA; (2) Sam: An Embodied Conversational Storyteller for Children; (3) Context-Aware Office Assistant.

Frequently delivered presentations to sponsors, conferences, and media.

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE & SPEECH Beijing, China

INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER

Research Assistant. July 1994 to June 1998

Research focusing on machine translation and speech interface. Master Thesis: A Chinese-English Machine Translation System Based on Stratified Analysis of Syntax and Semantics. Selected Projects: (1) Chinese-English Machine Translation System; (2) Multimedia Chinese Language Tutoring System; (3) Speech Based Reading System for Blind People.

INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Beijing, China

AT PEKING UNIVERSITY

Intern. July1996 to September1996

Proofread and copyedited the book “Collated Works of Computational Linguistics”.

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY SOFTWARE CENTER Beijing, China

Intern. July1995 to September 1995

Project: Japanese Character Input Quality Control System.

Selected Talks

"Producing Lifelike Gesture in Embodied Conversational Agents", with Justine Cassell, Gestures: Meaning and Use Conference, Oporto, Portugal, April 2000.

"Context-Aware Office Assistant", with Ted Selker, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2000.

Publications

Yan, H., Paired Speech and Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents, MIT Media Laboratory MA thesis. MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Yan, H. and Selker, T. “Context-Aware Office Assistant” the proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.

Cassell, J, Bickmore, T., Campbell, L., Vilhjalmsson, H., and Yan, H. (to appear). "More Than Just a Pretty Face: Conversational Protocols and the Affordances of Embodiment." Knowledge-Based Systems 14: 55-64.

Cassell, J., Ananny, M., Basu, A., Bickmore, T., Chong, P., Mellis, D., Ryokai, K., Smith, J., Vilhjálmsson, H., Yan, H. "Shared Reality: Physical Collaboration with a Virtual Peer." ACM CHI 2000 Conference Proceedings, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2000.

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Vilhjálmsson, H., and Yan, H. "More Than Just a Pretty Face: Affordances of Embodiment" in Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Campbell, L., Vilhjalmsson, H., and Yan, H. "Conversation as a System Framework: Designing Embodied Conversational Agents", in Cassell, J. et al. (eds.), Embodied Conversational Agents. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.

Cassell, J., Vilhjálmsson, H., Chang, K., Bickmore, T., Campbell, L. and Yan, H. "Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." Computer Animation and Simulation '99 (Eurographics Series). Vienna, Austria: Springer Verlag, 1999.

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Billinghurst, M., Campbell, L., Chang, K., Vilhjálmsson, H., Yan, H., "Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea", ACM CHI 99 Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Billinghurst, M., Campbell, L., Chang, K., Vilhjálmsson, H., and Yan, H. "An Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." Proceedings of the First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters, October 12-15, Tahoe City, California, 1998.

Yan, H. "A Chinese-English Machine Translation System Based on Stratified Analysis of Syntax and Semantics", Master thesis, Tsinghua University, 1998.

Yan, H. and Chen S.X., "The Strategy of Processing and Analysis of Chinese and Mechanism of Rule Processing in THCEMT 1.0", in The Studies of Chinese Language and Characters in the Epoch of Computer, Luo, Z.S. and Yuan, L.L., editors, Tsinghua University Press, 1996.

Yan, H., Gu, Y.J., and Chen S.X., "System Design of A Chinese-English Machine Translation System -- THCEMT Version 1.0", in The Development and Applications of Computational Linguistics, Chen, L.W. and Yuan Q., editors, Tsinghua University Press, 1995.