Jichen Zhu is currently a visiting assistant professor at Department of Digital Media, at University of Central Florida. She is also the director of the Procedural Expression Lab. Her work focuses on developing humanistic and interpretive theoretical framework of computational technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), and constructing AI-based cultural artifacts. Her current research area includes digital humanites, software studies, computational narrative, and generative art.
Jichen Zhu received a Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Tech, under the advicement of Dr. D. Fox Harrell. She also holds a Master of Computer Science from Georgia Tech (concurrent), and Master of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.
- My Procedural Expression Lab just received a research grant from the Center for Humanities and Digital Research at UCF.
- My new paper on analogy and computational narrative will be presented in First International Conference on Computational Creativity in Portugal, 2010.
- I presented at DAC'09: Digital Arts and Culture 2009 in UC Irvine.
- I presented a paper at the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2009), Aug 23 - Sept 1, in Belfast, UK.