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what am I doing now

I’m a computer science Ph.D. student working on human-AI interaction at the University of Maryland. I developed AI-assisted tools for creators/analysts (some projects collaborated with Adobe).

before coming to the U.S.

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.

tennis

When I am not doing research, I am usually playing tennis. I was on the varsity team when I was an undergrad. I currently play in the USTA league as an NTRP 3.5 player. I always travel with my racket, and here is a map of the tennis courts I’ve visited on the earth.

future plan

I plan to either join a startup or start my own company. The following books have changed the weights and bias of my mental models. If you’re looking for a co-founder and also have read some of the books, feel free to contact me.

books

Technology and Innovation

  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
  • Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
  • Zhong Guan Village: Tales from the Heart of China’s Silicon Valley by Ning Ken

Personal Development

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss

Biography

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • Idea Man by Paul Allen
  • Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

Culture

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Fictions

  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • 1984 by George Orwell

我在做什么

我叫陈玥西，简称Tracy，目前在美国马里兰大学计算机系读博士，方向是人机交互。我开发给创作者和数据分析师使用的新型工具（和Adobe公司有一些合作）。

从前

我来自内江，一座四川中南部的小城市，有一条长江的支流穿城而过。如果你读过彼得海斯勒的《江城》，那么我的人生仿佛是它的续集：像那些涪陵师范的学生一样，我妈妈师范毕业后也成为了一名英语老师。我本科毕业于中国科学技术大学（1314），因此我也认为合肥是我的第二故乡。

网球

当我不写代码的时候，我往往在打网球。像许多中国小朋友一样，我从小打乒乓球，不过我上大学之后改练网球，后来加入了校队，曾经代表科大参加大学生网球比赛（甲组，非特长生）。我目前作为NTRP3.5选手参加美国网球协会的业余联赛。我有一张谷歌地图记录地球上我去过的网球场。

未来

我打算今后加入创业公司或者自己创业。以下书籍改变了我大脑神经网络的权重和偏置，如果你正在寻找合作伙伴并且也读过其中一些，欢迎联系我。