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. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Leo Zhicheng Liu. 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 🌍