Curriculum Vitae
Wen-Fan (Vann) Wang
Education
Ph.D. Student in Information Science
Cornell Tech, Cornell University · New York, United States
Advisor: Prof. Max Kreminski
M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan
Advisors: Prof. Bing-Yu Chen and Prof. Mike Y. Chen
Concept Design Program
FZD School of Design · Singapore
B.S. in Psychology
National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan
Research Experience
Visiting Scholar
HCI Research, UCLA · Los Angeles, United States
Advisor: Prof. Anthony Xiang Chen
Researched human–AI collaboration and multi-agent systems for creative production, including stage-aware orchestration for animation pre-production deployed in two professional studios.
Research Assistant
Communication and Multimedia Lab, National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan
Advisor: Prof. Robin Bing-Yu Chen
Developed creativity-support systems for professional workflows, leading first-author work on AIdeation, GenTune, and DDS across human-centered generative AI, interpretability, and controllability.
Research Assistant
Modeling and Informatics Lab, National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan
Advisor: Prof. Tsung-Ren Huang
Studied EEG patterns in twins and analyzed emotional language on social media using sentiment and linguistic features.
Professional Experience
Acting Technical Lead
Moonshine Studio
Led XR systems in Unreal Engine for real-time synchronization between live-action and virtual environments across concerts, broadcasts, and commercial productions.
Technical Artist
Moonshine Studio
Built computer-vision, real-time compositing, shader, and Unreal Engine tooling for virtual production.
Environment Artist
Moonshine Studio
Designed 3D environments in Blender and Unreal Engine, delivering eight large-scale virtual productions from concept through final execution.
Awards & Honors
Taiwan–Cornell Scholarship
Ministry of Education, Taiwan and Cornell University
NSTC Overseas Conference Travel Grant
MoveTogether at CHI ’26
Honorable Mention Award
MoveTogether, CHI ’26
First Place, Student Game Competition
Wandering Spirit, CHI ’25 EA
Google Research Gift – East Asia Student Travel Grant
AIdeation at CHI ’25
NSTC Overseas Conference Travel Grant
AIdeation at CHI ’25
Invited Talks
Longitudinal Studies on Creativity Workflow Support for Concept Designers
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Invited by Prof. Chi-Lan Yang
Academic Service
Reviewer
UIST ’26 ×3; CHI ’26 ×3; C&C ’26 ×1; DIS ’26 ×2
Outstanding Review Recognition: UIST ×1, CHI ×2, DIS ×1
Panelist
UIST ’25 Workshop on Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems
Activities
President / Head of Activities
Student Association for Cross Straits Exchange, National Taiwan University
Organizer
The Second Cross-Strait Youth Forum