ruhan yang
PhD Student • MS, CTD—Creative 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.

 

Member of the ACME Lab  

Publications

Peter Gyory, S. Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and Clement Zheng. 2023. “Marking Material Interactions with Computer Vision”. In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).  

Ruhan Yang, Krithik Ranjan, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Fabricating Paper Circuits with Subtractive Processing”. In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

S. Sandra Bae, Rishi Vanukuru, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Ran Zhou, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022. Cultivating Visualization Literacy for Children Through Curiosity and Play. In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,  https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2208.05015 (Oct.16-21, 2022—Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).

Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Julia Uhr, Danielle Albers Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers, (2021) in IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, June 2021 Pages 433–438, 24 June 2021, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459990.3465191

Ruhan Yang, Cody Candler, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard, (to appear) In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020 (IDC'20). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3397832 (London, England (virtual)–June 17-24, 2020).

 

In the news

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.

During the Moog Hackathon, Ruhan Wang demonstrates the e-trombone to the delight of other hackathon participants.
Ruhan Yang and teammates win first place at Georgia Tech's Moog Hackathon

March 3, 2020

ATLAS CTD master's student Ruhan Yang and two teammates won first place for their project, "e-Trombone," at Georgia Tech's annual Moog Hackathon, beating 11 teams, taking home $3,000, and securing a place in GT's prestigious Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.