Education

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Carnegie Mellon University

BDes in Industrial Design

Minor in Physical Computing

Fall 2019 - Spring 2023

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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

High School Dual Enrollment

Fall 2017 - Spring 2019

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Publications

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Tate Johnson, Dinesh Patel, Humphrey Yang, Umut Civici, Adriane Fernandes Minori, Lining Yao. 2023. FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features. In Proceedings of the 2023 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595995

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Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam, and Lining Yao. 2022. ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 170, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502065

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Tate Johnson, Humphrey Yang, Lining Yao. 2022. Automated Morphing Food Production for Deep Space Travel. SpaceCHI 2.0 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration. 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). https://spacechi.media.mit.edu/

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Patent

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2023015125 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DESIGNING RECONFIGURABLE KINEMATIC DEVICES