ruhan yang
PhD Student • MS, CTD鈥擟reative Industries '21 • TOY DESIGN, PAPER CRAFT
ATLAS Institute
ruhan.yang@colorado.edu

Ruhan Yang is a design engineer who never stops exploring and creating. She has been designing educational toys and tools for many years and hopes to bring opportunities to more children through her designs. Ruhan received her Master of Science degree in Creative Technology and Design and Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder.

Projects

Publications

Peter Gyory,听S. Sandra Bae,听Ruhan Yang,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听and听Clement Zheng.听2023. 鈥溾��. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023). 听

Ruhan Yang,听Krithik Ranjan, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

S. Sandra Bae,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Ruhan Yang,听Peter Gyory,听Ran Zhou,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022.听Cultivating Visualization Literacy for Children Through Curiosity and Play. In听Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,听听听(Oct.16-21, 2022鈥擮klahoma City, Oklahoma).

Sandra Bae,听Ruhan Yang,听Peter Gyory,听Julia Uhr,听Danielle Albers Szafir,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers, (2021)听in听, June 2021听Pages 433鈥�438, 24 June 2021,听

Ruhan Yang,听Cody Candler,听and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2020. EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard, (to appear) In听Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020听(IDC'20).听DOI:听听(London, England (virtual)鈥揓une 17-24, 2020).

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In the news

Ruhan Yang sits behind a table showing off paper circuits research at the conference
Colorado-based Computer Graphics Professionals Make Their Mark at SIGGRAPH 2024

Aug. 2, 2024

ATLAS community members, including professor Ellen Do and PhD student Ruhan Yang, presented at this year's conference in Denver.

Ruhan stands in the ACME Lab holding examples of her paper robots
ATLAS PhD student deploys papercraft to make engineering tangible and fun

July 30, 2024

ATLAS PhD student Ruhan Yang blends papercraft and circuit design to make engineering more tangible, accessible and fun for tinkerers of all ages.

Art and Demo Exhibition Venue building on the harbor in Cork, Ireland
ATLAS in Ireland: 12 community members present at TEI鈥�24

Feb. 9, 2024

Research from 12 members of the ATLAS community including faculty, alumni and students is featured at the 18th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction.

Lit up paper box that says, "ATLAS."
Ruhan Yang passes preliminary exam

Aug. 23, 2022

ATLAS PhD Student Ruhan Yang passed her preliminary exam on August 4. Her work on her dissertation, "Paper Robot Building Kits: Present and Future," is overseen by Professor Ellen Do, Professor Mark Gross and Assistant Professor Daniel Leithinger.

Collage of four MS-CTD students on top and five BS-CTD students on the bottom who won ATLAS awards in 2021.
Spring 2021 ATLAS Student Awards

May 4, 2021

Graduating in May 2021 with degrees in Creative Technology and Design, the graduate and undergraduate students listed below are recognized for exceptional accomplishments, having demonstrated initiative in their academic and extracurricular activities, completing outstanding research or creative projects, or contributing significantly to the ATLAS community.