JC
Available · Palo Alto

Joy Chen

Product · Creative Coding · Photography.

Now ·Working on AI-powered products at Tencent and Veeup. Interested in how language, media, and tools shape the way we work.

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Who01

About / Resume

Background, experience, the stuff that shaped me.

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See02

Photography

Light, texture, and quiet moments.

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Build03

Selected Work

Products, prototypes, papers, and playful things.

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Think04

Blog

Notes on design, code, and curious things.

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Industry

  1. Now

    Tencent

    Cloud Media Solution Architect · Palo Alto, CA

    AI & media infrastructure for North America clients.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

  2. Aug 2023 – Nov 2023

    FinTech4Good

    Market Research Fellow · Chicago, IL

    AI adoption across finance & healthcare — research and executive briefings.

  3. Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

    ByteDance

    AI Content Strategy & UX Analyst (Data Science) · Beijing, China

    Recommendation-system performance, content quality, and large-scale UX analytics.

  4. Veeup

    Co-founder · Remote

    Resume automation & job-application platform powered by LLMs.

  5. UrBanests

    Marketing Analyst

    Performance marketing & acquisition analytics — Google Ads, ROAS, channel ROI.

Research

  1. Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

    HRI Lab, University of Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    Rapport, social engagement, and robot-facilitated conversation studies.

  2. Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

    Cannon Lab, University of Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    Evidence-based K–12 CS education with Scratch Encore.

  3. Jan 2024 – May 2024

    Web Phishing Machine Learning Detection, University of Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    End-to-end ML benchmark — MLP / ANN / CNN / LSTM over 10,000+ URLs.

  4. Jan 2023 – May 2023

    Paid Search Marketing Analytics Simulation, Wake Forest University

    Winston-Salem, NC

    DSP-based paid search simulation — bidding, ROAS, A/B tests across regions.

Education

03 / Study
  1. 2023 — 2024

    University of Chicago

    M.A. in Digital Studies · Chicago, IL

    Concentration: Artificial Intelligence & Language.

  2. 2019 — 2023

    Wake Forest University

    B.S. in Business Management · Winston-Salem, NC

    Double major in Media Studies & Communication.

Get in touch

Let’s talk about trees.

joychen0709@gmail.com