I’m Xiaoyue (Helen) Yu 禹晓月.
I’m a senior undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Information Science.
I also have a dual degree in Industrial Engineering from Sichuan University, China.
I care about design, Human-AI Collaboration, and Education.
In development
PantherWays is a retrieval-augmented conversational academic advisor for University of Pittsburgh undergraduates. It elicits a student's goals, retrieves real Pitt data via RAG to ground its recommendations, and produces two consent-gated outputs: a student summary and an advisor brief delivered through a meeting-request flow.
My work includes interviewing and coordinating with academic advisors, psychology experts, English department faculty, and computer science faculty; designing the user interaction model; shaping the frontend UI; structuring the database content; and developing prompts for grounded, advisor-ready recommendations.
In development
LLM Annotator was built by the McLearn Lab in 2026 to leverage large language models (LLMs) for qualitative annotation of natural language data.
My work includes polishing the frontend UI, refactoring the code structure, and exploring interaction patterns that make the annotation workflow more approachable for non-technical users.
In development
Language Learning: WhatsApp Chat Bot is a WhatsApp-based language learning chatbot designed to help children in Ecuador learn Kichwa, a local Indigenous language.
My work includes designing and building the MySQL database schema, developing game-based learning activities, and connecting the chatbot experience with the Twilio API.
Feb 6–8, 2026
A web platform that reframes today’s worries through the lens of a lifetime. Share an anxiety or a happy moment, then turn the temporal dial to read how people across different ages felt the same way — and revisit your own emotional history in a personal journey.
Built with Boyi Sun and Ruoyu Wu for She Innovates 2026. React · Flask · SQLite · Gemini API.
Oct 2025 – Feb 2026
A research project that turns digital archives into social virtual museum worlds, making large cultural collections explorable, curatable, and conversational across platforms.
The Jam @ GDC
Black Friday is a game we made for The Jam @ GDC, a 36-hour on-site game jam at Moscone Center that brought together 100 jammers from around the world. With the theme "Celebrate," the jam invited teams to create games as part of the Festival of Gaming.
The Jam @ GDC was hosted in the GDC Commons in the Festival Hall and powered by Tencent Institute of Games as the Sustenance Sponsor.
Pitt's Games 4 Social Impact 2025
Paperworkx is a puzzle game about a robot on Earth going through the legal process to immigrate to Mars. Players fill out immigration paperwork and must answer enough questions correctly to pass.
We made Paperworkx for Pitt's Games 4 Social Impact 2025, an in-person University of Pittsburgh game jam focused on social impact. The 2025 jam theme was Migration, and Paperworkx ranked #1 in Narrative Design.
My work focused on Unity game development, core narrative design, and technical implementation.
Under Review at Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. Preprint: SSRN.
2025 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning and Computer Vision (DLCV).
HCI International 2025 Posters.
I’m Xiaoyue (Helen) Yu 禹晓月.
I’m a senior undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Information Science.
I also have a dual degree in Industrial Engineering from Sichuan University, China.
I care about design, Human-AI Collaboration, and Education.
