Qiming Sun

I study responsible AI, sustainable HCI, and educational technology. I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science & Engineering at Santa Clara University, advised by Dr. Sharon I‑Han Hsiao.

Publications

2027

  1. A Pet for Every Goal: Personalized Generative Tamagotchi-Style Companions for Self-Directed Goal Support

    Qiming Sun, Shih‑Yi Chien, Christina Chung, I‑Han Hsiao

    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) In press

2026

  1. Lessons learned from an AI-assisted educational technology for environmental sustainability and waste management

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    Educational Technology & Society

  2. PET: A Personalized Generative Tamagotchi-Style Companion for Self-Directed Goal Support

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

  3. Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals

    Qiming Sun, Sharon I‑Han Hsiao

    ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT)

  4. Beyond Exploration: AI-facilitated Information Visualization Structure for Complex Context Exploration and Decision-Making in Environmental Sustainability

    Qiming Sun, Sharon I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT)

  5. AI-Infused Technology Support for Environmental Sustainability Exploration and Actions

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    HCI International

  6. AI-Infused Educational Technology for Personalized Environmental Sustainability Practices

    Qiming Sun, Sharon I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)

  7. Lattice-Based Cryptographic Accelerators for the Post-Quantum Era: Architectures, Optimizations, and Implementation Challenges

    Hua Yan, Lei Wu, Qiming Sun, Pengzhou He

    Electronics

  8. Parameterizable Hash DRBG Accelerator on FPGA for Post-Quantum IoT Gateways: Architecture and Design Space Exploration

    Hua Yan, Tianyou Bao, Qiming Sun, Aonan Guan, Lei Wu, Pengzhou He

    International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT) In press

  9. My Credentials, Please: Detecting Filesystem Capability Laundering in MCP Servers at Scale

    Zeqian Huang, Mingyue Tang, Aonan Guan, Qiming Sun, Pengzhou He

    arXiv preprint

2025

  1. Waste genie: emerging technology support and interactive feedback to enhance sustainable waste management learning

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    Interactive Learning Environments

  2. AI-infused Educational Technology for Continuous Waste Management Learning: an Environmental Legislative-guided LLM enhanced approach

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

  3. Engineering Environmental Legislative-guided LLM to Support Waste Management Learning

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

  4. Human-AI Collaborated Ideation for Learning Reduce & Reuse Waste

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP Adjunct)

  5. Learning Reduce & Reuse Waste Management Practices with Human-AI Collaboration

    Qiming Sun, Shih‑Yi Chien, I‑Han Hsiao

    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

2024

  1. An AI-infused educational technology to cultivate self-directed learning in sustainable waste management

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT)

  2. Serious practices for interactive waste sorting mini-game

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    Joint International Conference on Serious Games

  3. Learning Waste Management from Interactive Quizzes and Adaptive GPT-guided Feedback

    Qiming Sun, Shih‑Yi Chien, I‑Han Hsiao

    HEXED/L3MNGET Workshop at Educational Data Mining (EDM)

2023

  1. Immersive educational technology for waste management learning: A study of waste detection and feedback delivery in augmented reality

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    HCI International

  2. Theory of planned behavior modeled educational technology for waste management learning

    Qiming Sun, Shih‑Yi Chien, I‑Han Hsiao

    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

  3. Waste Genie: Learning Environmental Sustainability from Waste Sorting and Interactive Feedback

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

  4. Waste Genie: A Web-Based Educational Technology for Sustainable Waste Management

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao

    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct)

  5. Immersive educational recycling assistant (ERA): learning waste sorting in augmented reality

    Qiming Sun, I‑Han Hsiao, Shih‑Yi Chien

    International Conference on Immersive Learning

Earlier work, 2017–2019

2019

  1. The Design of an Intelligent LEGO Tutoring System for Improving Social Communication Skills Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Qiming Sun, Pinata Winoto

    HCI International

  2. An Intelligent LEGO tutoring system for children with autism spectrum disorder

    Qiming Sun, Pinata Winoto

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI)

2018

  1. On the Computational Study of Chinese Alzheimer's Disease Online Communities: A Sentiment and Contextual Analysis Approach

    Qiming Sun, Tiffany Y. Tang

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI)

  2. An Auxiliary Notification System for Amnesiac Patients Based on Face Recognition and Voice Synthesis Using Cloud Computing

    Qiming Sun, Ping Guo, Changjiang Zhang

    IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

2017

  1. Design and implementation of an intelligent biology vocabulary learning cloud system for college students

    Qiming Sun, Changjiang Zhang, Yu Meng

    IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC)