Research portfolio for graduate applications

Qixuan Chu

Computer Science Specialist at the University of Toronto focused on applied AI/ML, human-centered systems, data visualization, adaptive media, privacy/security, and reliable software engineering.

Focus

A compact profile around AI systems, human-centered evaluation, and reliable implementation.

The site is intentionally evidence-first: projects and research context come before decorative biography.

Applied AI/ML and evaluation

Feature engineering, model comparison, healthcare prediction reading, and careful attention to validation, calibration, and overfitting.

Human-centered visualization and adaptive media

Interactive D3 visual analytics, TouchDesigner prototypes, affective computing, and user-study driven evaluation.

Reliable software systems and testing

End-to-end automation, debugging, Java/SQL/HTTP test logic, browser automation, and regression reliability in enterprise workflows.

Featured work

Project case studies that support the graduate application narrative.

Each case study states the motivation, technical approach, contribution boundary, and available evidence.

Synesthetic Music Visualization visual summary
HCI / Affective Computing / May 2024 - Dec. 2024

Synesthetic Music Visualization

A TouchDesigner-based music visualization system mapping audio features to visual deformation for emotional-regulation exploration.

  • TouchDesigner
  • audio features
  • affective computing
  • PSS-10
Box Office vs Streaming Services Visualization visual summary
Data Visualization / Jan. 2025 - Mar. 2025

Box Office vs Streaming Services Visualization

An interactive D3.js dashboard analyzing box-office and streaming-service trends through coordinated web views.

  • D3.js
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • visual analytics
Food Item Classifier visual summary
Applied Machine Learning / Jan. 2025 - Mar. 2025

Food Item Classifier

A classifier project comparing decision trees, KNN, and neural networks with feature engineering and generalization analysis.

  • Python
  • model comparison
  • feature engineering
  • decision trees