National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
Sep 2025 – Jun 2029 (expected)B.S. in Computer Science
Elvis Dragon Mao
Computer Science Undergraduate · Human–AI Interaction & Interactive Systems
Research Interests
- Human–AI Interaction
- Interactive Systems
- Speech Interfaces
- Computer Vision
- Wearable & Embedded Computing
- Creative Support Tools
Education
Research Experience
Human-AI & Creative Computing (HAIX) Lab, NYCU
Dec 2025 – PresentUndergraduate Researcher & Systems Administrator
Conduct human–AI interaction and interactive systems research — system prototyping, experimental preparation, and research discussions — while maintaining computing infrastructure for projects involving speech interfaces, conversational AI, collaborative systems, and real-time interaction.
OmniObserve: Revealing Hidden Consensus in Online Meetings 2025 – 2026
Investigated AI-mediated mechanisms for surfacing latent consensus during online meetings, allowing participants to privately express uncertain or socially difficult opinions while receiving indications when others share similar views.
- Built foundational software and experimental infrastructure on an H100-backed research environment using Jitsi, Whisper, and the ChatGPT API.
- Participated throughout system design, implementation, experimental preparation, and research discussions.
- Contributed to study execution as a research confederate.
- Honorable Mention, NYCU Computer Science Undergraduate Project Contest, Spring 2026.
Human–AI Speech Assistance for Healthcare and Law-Enforcement Workflows 2026 – Present
Investigating how speech-based AI systems can improve information transfer in professional environments, with an emphasis on helping patients understand medical information while reducing communication and documentation workload for physicians and pharmacists.
- Conducting stakeholder interviews and developing early-stage prototypes.
- Exploring automatic speech recognition, speaker diarization and identification, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, structured decision models, and real-time information visualization.
- Investigating related applications for organizing conversational information and supporting professional workflows in law-enforcement settings.
Independent Research
2026 – PresentFursuit Identity Retrieval and Recognition from 2D Images
Exploring fine-grained identity retrieval and recognition of fursuit characters from two-dimensional imagery. Currently conducting literature review, dataset exploration, and early-stage prototyping around visual embeddings, identity retrieval, clustering, and recognition of distinctive morphology, color patterns, and markings.
Posters & Research Outputs
Shih-Kai Hong, Ethel Yu-Tsen Hsiao, Yi-Jie Chen, Jason Zhi-Jun Chang, Elvis Dragon Mao, and Grace Yu-Chun Yen.
“OmniObserve: Revealing Hidden Consensus in Online Meetings.”
Poster presented at the Taiwan HCI Conference (TAICHI 2026).
Teaching Experience
Course Designer & Lead Instructor · Introduction to React Frontend Development
Spring 2026National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2-credit course 12 sessions 36 hours
- Designed the complete curriculum and delivered the course instruction.
- Taught component architecture, state and application design, custom hooks, component libraries, and practical frontend engineering.
- Designed hands-on coursework culminating in student-developed web applications.
Technical & Creative Workshop Instructor
Jun 2026 – PresentInnovative Creative Technology Co-Working Space, NYCU
- Deliver approximately four workshops per month through NYCU’s Teaching and Learning Development Center.
- Teach Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Audition, photography, virtual production, Ableton Live, Launchpad workflows, and related creative technologies.
Invited Lecturer · Frontend Development
Mar 25 & Apr 8, 2026Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University — frontend development instruction for graduate-level audiences