I'm now a Software Engineer at Waymo, helping build the brain of self-driving cars. I received a Ph.D. from MIT in 2017, an S.M. from MIT in 2013, and a B.S. from NTU in 2010.

I like building practical systems and applying machine learning techniques to create interesting applications.



Selected Publications

  • Glimpse: Continuous, Real-Time Object Recognition on Mobile Devices

    • Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Lenin Ravindranath, Shuo Deng, Victor Bahl, Hari Balakrishnan
    [talk][slides][GetMobile Magazine]
    SenSys 2015
    SIGMOBILE Research Highlight

  • Designing a Context-Sensitive Detection Service for Mobile Devices

    • Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Anirudh Sivaraman, Somak Das, Lenin Ravindranath, Hari Balakrishnan
    MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-029

  • ConvenienceProbe: A Phone-based Data Collection and Access System for Retail Trade Area Analysis

    • Chuang-Wen You, Hsin-Liu Kao, Bo-Jhang Ho, Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Wei-Fehng Wang, Lien-Ti Bei, Hao-Hua Chu, Ming-Syan Chen
    IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine 2014

  • Mapping Hidden Water Pipelines using a Mobile Sensor Droplet

    • Ted Tsung-Te Lai, Wei-Ju Chen, Yu-Han Tiffany Chen, Polly Huang, Hao-Hua Chu
    TOSN 2013

  • PipeProbe: A Mobile Sensor Droplet for Mapping Hidden Pipeline

    • Tsung-Te (Ted) Lai, Yu-Han Tiffany Chen, Polly Huang, Hao-Hua Chu
    [talk][slides]
    SenSys 2010
    Best Presentation Award

    Other Publications

  • Glimpse: Continuous, Real-Time Object Recognition on Mobile Devices

    • Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Lenin Ravindranath, Shuo Deng, Victor Bahl, Hari Balakrishnan
    SenSys 2015 (demo)

  • Code In The Air - Simplifying Tasking on Smartphones

    • Lenin Ravindranath, Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Somak Das, Raluca Ifrim, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
    MobiSys 2012 (demo)

  • Convenience Probe: a Participatory Sensing Tool to Collect Large-scale Consumer Flow Behaviors

    • Chuang-Wen You, Chih-Chiang Wei, Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Jya-Cheng Hu, Wei-Fehng Wang, Hao-Hua Chu, Lien-Ti Bei, Ming-Syan Chen
    UbiComp 2010 (poster)

  • Pipeprobe: Mapping Hidden Water Pipelines

    • Tsung-Te Ted Lai, Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Hao-Hua Chu, Polly Huang
    SenSys 2009 (poster)

    Talks

  • Glimpse: Continuous, Real-Time Object Recognition on Mobile Devices

    •    New England Network and Systems Day, 2014
       Invited talk @ Academia Sinica (Taipei), 2015
       Invited lecture for 6.S062 Mobile and Sensor Computing @ MIT, 2016/2017

  • Interactive Object Recognition and Search over Mobile Video

    •    Invited talk @ NTU CS/NTU CE/NCCU CS, 2017
       Invited talk @ TAI CHI, 2017

    Honors and Awards

  • NSF Student Travel Grant, SenSys 2015
  • Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellowship, MIT CSAIL 2011
  • Government Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 2011
  • Best Presentation Award, SenSys 2010
  • N2 Women Student Fellowship Award, IEEE Communications Society Networking Networking Women 2010
  • Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Google 2010
  • Membership of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society 2010
  • Presidential Award * 7, National Taiwan University 2006/2007/2008/2009

    • Professional Services

  • TPC co-chair: ACM S3 at MobiCom 2016/2017
  • Shadow TPC member: IPSN 2016
  • External reviewer: IEEE Signal Processing 2017, InfoCom 2016, UbiComp 2014/2015, Pervasive 2012

    • Teaching

  • 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering, TA, MIT Spring 2014
  • Probability, TA, NTU Spring 2011
  • Database Systems, TA, NTU Fall 2010

    • Personal

  • My sister, Kimberly Afanasova, is a professional pianist. Here is a list of her beautiful performances for you to enjoy. :)