Tracy Yuexi Chen

Tracy Yuexi Chen

Hi, I’m Tracy, an AI Scientist (Tech Lead) at GE HealthCare, Bellevue, WA. My current focus is building agentic AI for healthcare, from perinatal care to hospital operations. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Leo Zhicheng Liu. At Maryland, I was a member of the Human-Data Interaction Group and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. During my Ph.D., I was fortunate to collaborate with Adobe and Bosch Research on human-AI interaction projects. If you’re interested in details, read my thesis here: Bridging the Gulf of Evaluation in Human-AI Interaction for Knowledge Workers

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I go by Tracy because it sounds like my Chinese name 陈玥西, here’s the breakdown:

陈 (Chen)：a common Chinese last name, you might also see Chan (Cantonese) or Tan (Hokkien)

玥 (Yue)：a gemstone

西 (Xi)：west

I come from Neijiang, a city on the bank of a tributary of the Yangtze River in Sichuan Province, China. If you’ve read River Town by Peter Hessler, my life is like a sequel to the book: my mom attended a teachers’ college and later became an English teacher. I received my B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, Anhui Province, which I consider as my second hometown :heart:

When I am not doing research, I am usually playing tennis. I was on the varsity team when I was an undergrad. If you also play UTR or USTA tournaments, you can find my profiles here [UTR] [USTA]. I also created a map to record the tennis courts I’ve visited on the 🌍