I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, advised by Haojian Jin. My research examines software accountability, including how to help developers build privacy-respecting systems and how people develop informed trust in AI systems.

Before joining UCSD, I received my B.S. and M.S. from National Taiwan University, and interned at Microsoft.

Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Privacy, Software Engineering

News

[Jul. 2026] I will be speaking at the IOPD PETed this December!
[Mar. 2026] I’ll be presenting “Training Developers’ Privacy Awareness with Enforcement Cases” at USENIX PEPR’26 this June. See you there!

Publications

Preprint

Privacy Detective: A Narrative Game that Cultivates Student Developers’ Privacy Awareness by Harnessing Legal Documents

Shao-Yu Chu, Jennifer Forsyth, Xu Wang, Haojian Jin

arXiv:2607.09022

[paper] [artifact]

Preprint

DPCheatSheet: Using Worked and Erroneous LLM-usage Examples to Scaffold Differential Privacy Implementation

Shao-Yu Chu, Yuhe Tian, Yu-Xiang Wang, Haojian Jin

arXiv:2509.12590

[paper] [artifact]

PoPETs'25

Panopticon: The design and evaluation of a game that teaches data science students designing privacy

Yuhe Tian*, Shao-Yu Chu*, Yuxuan Liu*, Haojian Jin

PoPETs’25

[paper] [artifact]

UIST'21

MotionRing: Creating illusory tactile motion around the head using 360° vibrotactile headbands

Shao-Yu Chu, Yun-Ting Cheng, Shih Chin Lin, Yung-Wen Huang, Yi Chen, Mike Y Chen

UIST’21

[paper] [video]

Talks

Training Developers’ Privacy Awareness with Enforcement Cases

USENIX PEPR’26, Santa Clara, CA. June 2026. [slides] [video]
IOPD PETed, virtual. December 2026 (upcoming).

Honors

J Yang Scholarship, 2024

Academic Services

Reviewer CHI’26, CHI’25

Artifact Reviewer USENIX SEC’26

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego

CSE110 Software Engineering (Winter 2026)