About

I’m Dr. Zhiyu Lin, a researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational creativity, and human‑AI collaboration. My work focuses on human-centered, mixed-initiative co-creative tools and on studying how humans and AI learn from and improve together, meta-cognitively. I’ve applied these ideas to storytelling, game content generation, and education, and I conduct detailed studies of how people use these tools.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with the honor of serving the Game User Interaction and Intelligence Laboratory. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I worked in the Entertainment Intelligence Laboratory. In addition to my research, I have hands‑on experience designing game stages that received millions of plays, contributing to open‑source game communities, while engaging with them - experiences that fuel my passion for computational creativity.

Here is my complete list of papers; You can also check out my full CV for my other experience, including industry involvement, talks, and other outputs.

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