Joy Chen
Say hiAI × products × human interaction × real-world systems.
Generalist in life.Specialist in craft.




Yang · 阳
Industry
- Now
Tencent
Senior Media Product Solutions Architect · Palo Alto, CA
AI-powered media products for North America clients.
- 2026 · San Francisco, CA
Boosting Game Retention with Voice, AI & Acceleration
Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2026
How conversational voice + AI infrastructure can be deployed to lift retention and engagement in live games.
- 2025 · San Francisco, CA
Tencent Games Developer Summit · Conversational AI Gaming Solution
Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025
A walk-through of Tencent's conversational AI stack for games — architecture, latency budget, and developer integration.
Phier
Founder · Remote · Chicago, IL
Startup — a professional consulting platform where people find mentors and mentees.
Fintech Startup
Market Research Fellow · Chicago, IL
AI adoption across finance & healthcare — research and executive briefings.
ByteDance
AI Research Analyst (Math & Logics) · Beijing, China
Recommendation-system performance and content quality.
Real-estate Startup
Marketing Analyst · San Francisco, CA
Performance marketing & acquisition analytics — Google Ads, ROAS, channel ROI.
Yin · 阴
Research & Projects
HRI Lab, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Rapport, social engagement, and robot-facilitated conversation studies.
Cannon Lab, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Evidence-based K–12 CS education with Scratch Encore.
Web Phishing Machine Learning Detection, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
End-to-end ML benchmark — MLP / ANN / CNN / LSTM over 10,000+ URLs.
Find the Gate, University of Chicago
Interactive game · Chicago, IL
A small atmospheric game exploring place, memory, and the act of finding.
Paid Search Marketing Analytics Simulation, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
DSP-based paid search simulation — bidding, ROAS, A/B tests across regions.
Education
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL
M.A. in Digital Studies
Wake Forest University · Winston-Salem, NC
B.S. in Business Management
Double major in Film Studies.