Kehua Lei

Kehua Lei is a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focusing on social computing, multimodal analysis, and the design and collaboration in online communities. He has contributed to multiple international conference papers across fields such as artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work, and multimedia. His work aims to advance the possibilities of enhancing human interaction and social connection through technology, particularly in the context of large-scale online communities and teamwork. His research includes emotional inference from voice data, gratitude practices in online communities, and language learning aids based on multimodal models.

• 2025–Present·University of California, Santa Cruz·Researcher
  • Focused on designing insights for meaningful large-scale online communication and collaboration.
• 2023·University of California, Santa Cruz·Research Assistant
  • Supported research on mentorship and gratitude practices in large-scale online communities.

• 2018–Present·University of California, Santa Cruz·Ph.D. Candidate
  • Specialized in research on Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing.
• Unknown·Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute·Bachelor's Degree
  • Major or research area unspecified.