Szeyi (Reina) Chan
(she/her)
PhD Student
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Human–computer interaction
Education
- MS in Computer Science, Northeastern University
- BS in Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Biography
Reina Szeyi Chan is a PhD student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. She is advised by Zhi Tan.
Chan joined Khoury College as an Align master’s student in 2021 and began her PhD in 2025. She is interested in developing personalized technologies to support collaboration between older adults and their care partners, as well as understanding more broadly how technology can fit naturally into the dynamics of existing relationships. She is a recipient of the Khoury Distinguished Fellowship and has had papers published at ACM DIS, ACM CSCW, and DiGRA.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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From ‘What’ to ‘How’ and ‘Why’: Sharing LLM-Generated Retrospective Summaries of Older Adults’ Passive Tracking Data with Remote Family Members
Citation: Jiachen Li, Reina Szeyi Chan, Akshat Choube, Xiang Zhi Tan, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Varun Mishra . (2026). From 'What' to 'How' and 'Why': Sharing LLM-Generated Retrospective Summaries of Older Adults' Passive Tracking Data with Remote Family Members CoRR, abs/2606.03876. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.03876