HCI Researcher at Shaper Tools

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: Human Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication

Dissertation: Lucid Fabrication

Advised by Eric Paulos

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher, Hybrid Ecologies Lab

Advised by Eric Paulos

PhD Research Intern, Siemens Corporate Technology

Advised by Florian Michahelles and Mareike Kritzler

Undergraduate Researcher, Poly-Pedal Lab

Mentor: Chen Li. Advisor: Robert Full

Undergraduate Researcher, Automation Science and Engineering Laboratory

Mentor: Ben Kehoe. Advisor: Ken Goldberg

Undergraduate Researcher, Tennis Dynamics Laboratory

Advisor: Karl Hedrick

Refereed Publications

[7] Adroid: Augmenting Hands-on Making with a Collaborative Robot

UIST 2021

Rundong Tian, Eric Paulos

[6] Turn-by-Wire: Digitally Mediated Physical Fabrication

UIST 2019

Rundong Tian, Vedant Saran, Mareike Kritzler, Florian Michahelles, Eric Paulos

[5] MatchSticks: Woodworking through Improvisational Digital Fabrication

CHI 2018, Nominated for Best Paper Award

Rundong Tian, Sarah Sterman, Ethan Chiou, Jeremy Warner, Eric Paulos

[4] Tensions of Data-Driven Reflection: A Case Study of Real-Time Emotional Biosensing

CHI 2018

Noura Howell, Laura Devendorf, Tomás Vega Gálvez, Rundong Tian, Kimiko Ryokai

[3] MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate, Airborne Particle Counting

CHI 2016

Rundong Tian, Christine Dierk, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos

[2] Biosignals as Social Cues: Ambiguity and Emotional Interpretation in Social Displays of Skin Conductance

DIS 2016

Noura Howell, Laura Devendorf, Rundong Tian, Tomás Vega Galvez, Nan-Wei Gong, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, Kimiko Ryokai

[1] Sensory Triptych: Here, Near, Out There

UIST 2014

Eric Paulos, Chris Myers, Rundong Tian, Paxton Paulos

Other Research Activity

Lucid Fabrication

UIST 2019, Doctoral Symposium

Rundong Tian

Turn-by-Wire Demo

UIST 2019, Demo Reception

Rundong Tian, Eric Paulos

How to build a low cost laser air particle counter, aerosol test chamber, and monodispersed particle generator.

Instructables 2016

Rundong Tian and Sarah Sterman

Teaching Experience

Graduate student instructor, Technology and Design Foundation

Graduate student instructor, User Interface Design and Development

Graduate student instructor, User Interface Design and Development

Graduate student instructor, Interactive Device Design

Graduate student instructor, Critical Making

Invited workshop instructor

Introduction to Computer Aided Design: T-PREP, Summer 2019; Critical Making, Spring 2018; Des Inv 22, Spring 2016

Introduction to Photography and Documentation: Critical Making, Spring 2018

Patents

Portable airborne particle counting systems and methods

Rundong Tian, Christine Dierk, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos

Awards

Siemens Research Fellowship
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention

Service

PhD Admissions Panel, Computer Science (HCI), UC Berkeley
Citris Invention Lab Superuser

Peer Review

25 reviews total

CHI 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021

UIST 2017, 2020, 2021 (Special Recognition for Outstanding Review)

DIS 2017, 2019 ("highly useful review"), 2020, 2021

TEI 2019, SCF 2019, IEEE Pervasive 2019, C&C 2021

Mentorship

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Vedant Saran, Master's of Science, 2018-2019, project: Turn-by-Wire

Ethan Chiou, 2015-2017, projects: MyPart, CapsLoc, MatchSticks

Eric Liang, 2017, project: MatchSticks

Eric O'Neill, 2015, project: Sensory Triptych

Nick Firmani, 2015, project: Sensory Triptych

Computer and Cognitive Science

Tomás Vega, 2015 - 2016, project: Sensory Triptych

Mechanical Engineering

Juan Carrillo, 2020, project: Adroid

John Kuwata, 2015, project: Sensory Triptych

Skills

Mechanical CAD/CAM: Fusion 360, Inventor, Inventor HSM, Solidworks, Rhino

Electrical CAD/CAM: Eagle, LPKF CircuitPro

Fabrication: CNC and manual turning and milling, waterjet, laser cutting, 3D printing, manual PCBA, woodworking, textiles, etc.

Web: Javascript, Three.js, HTML, CSS

Embeded: C, C++, ARM Mbed, Arduino

General: Java, Matlab, Python

Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom, Premiere

Coursework

Computer Aided Design and Fabrication

ME290D - Solid Modeling and CAD/CAM Fundamentals, Sara McMains

CS294-119 - Computational Design + Fabrication, Jonathan Bachrach

Graphics

CS284A - Introduction to Computer Graphics, James O'Brien

CS284B - Advanced Computer Graphics Algorithms and Techniques, James O'Brien

Electromechanical

EECS249A - Introduction to Embedded Systems, Edward Lee

ME102B - Mechatronic Design, Homayoon Kazerooni

ME290U - Interactive Device Design, Bjoern Hartmann

ME135 - Design of Microprocessor-Based Mechanical Systems, George Anwar

Environmental Design

Architecture 259 - Tensile Bending, Simon Schleicher

Architecture 259 - Variable Property Design and Fabrication, Simon Schleicher

Environmental Design 11A, Paz Gutierrez; Environmental Design 1, Nicholas de Monchaux

CS miscellany

EE227A - Introduction to Convex Optimization, Laurent El Ghaoui

CS267 - Applications of Parallel Computing, James Demmel

FUNdaMENTALs

Computer Science - Machine Structures, Data Structures and Algorithms

Engineering - Heat Transfer, Dynamic Systems and Feedback, Elementary Fluid Mechanics, Structural Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials

Other Employment

Publication Assistant, New Student Services, UC Berkeley

Automated various repetitive web and print publishing tasks. Filmed interviews and photographed events for campus websites and publications.

References

Available upon request