About Me
Ph.D. Candidate at CMU HCII, advised by Prof. Nik Martelaro. Previously at Adobe & Runway.
Research
Making AI a co-creative partner for designers.



Tracing Creativity: A Design Space For Creative Activity Traces in HCI
Noor Hammad, David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
A design space for leveraging creator activity traces in creativity tools.

Visual Lyrics: Generating Animated Text for Music Lyric Videos
David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Generate animated lyric videos with an augmented text editor.

Inkspire: Supporting Design Exploration with Generative AI through Analogical Sketching
David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
A sketching tool for product design with AI-generated shadows.

BioSpark: Beyond Analogical Inspiration to LLM-augmented Transfer
Hyeonsu Kang, David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Discover biology inspirations and transfer them to design.

NoTeeline: Supporting Real-Time Notetaking with LLM-Enhanced Micronotes
Faria Huq, David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Write quick keypoints that auto-expand into full notes.

Gen4Gen: Generative Data Pipeline for Multi-Concept Composition
Chun-Hsiao Yeh, Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Pipeline for multi-concept text-to-image diffusion.

Jigsaw: Prototyping Multimodal Applications by Chaining AI Models
David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro
Combine AI models like puzzle pieces.

VideoMap: Video Editing in Latent Space
David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Video editing on frames projected onto latent space.

Videogenic: Identifying Highlight Moments with Photography Priors
David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Detect highlights using professional photo priors.

Soundify: Matching Sound Effects to Video
David Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Add content-aware spatial sound effects to video.

Learning Personal Style from Few Examples
David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro
Learn graphic design style from few examples.

ARchitect: Building Interactive VR from Physical Affordances
Chuan-En Lin, Ta Ying Cheng, Xiaojuan Ma
AR builder + VR player for real-world interactions.

SeqDynamics: Visual Analytics for Problem-solving Dynamics
Meng Xia, Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Evaluate student problem-solving dynamics.

Learning to Film from Professional Human Motion Videos
Chong Huang, Chuan-En Lin, et al.
Automatic drone cinematography from pro videos.

