Yuxin Hou 中文

Yuxin Hou 侯煜欣

Entrepreneur · AI Product Developer · Computational Social Science Researcher

I am a PhD student in sociology at Peking University, currently visiting Princeton University. My research examines the use and biases of large language models in social science, opinion dynamics on social media, and long-term changes in gender norms.

My product work focuses on making AI more accessible and applying it to learning and education. I work across product concepts, system architecture and development, while exploring applications in different fields.

I previously co-founded an education technology company and served as its CTO. I now advise companies in manufacturing and education on AI technology and support AI implementation. Outside work, I enjoy cycling, running, trail running and CrossFit.

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Experience

Education & visiting appointment

  1. 2026–2027

    Princeton University

    Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC), alongside the PhD.

  2. 2024–2028 (expected)

    Peking University · Sociology

    PhD student at the Center for Social Research. Expected completion in 2028.

  3. 2021–2024

    Tsinghua University · Institute of Education

    M.A. in Education.

  4. 2016.07

    University of Oxford · Summer exchange

    Summer exchange participant; coursework in English communication and writing.

  5. 2015–2021

    Tsinghua University · Mechanical Engineering

    B.E. in Mechanical Engineering.

Work

  1. 2025–2026

    AI technology advisor · Manufacturing & education

    AI technology consulting for a listed manufacturing company, an education company and an AI–manufacturing company; AI transformation implementation for a manufacturing startup.

  2. 2016–2022

    Higgz Technology · Co-founder & CTO

    Built AI education products for schools and education providers, overseeing product design and development with a team of more than 20 product managers, designers, engineers and testers. Participated in the design and development of the first two product generations across student and teacher applications. Established an education research team connecting learning-data analysis and education theory with product development, teaching-algorithm discussions, teaching experiments and policy research.

    Interview (Chinese)DevRun 2019 talk (Chinese)Huawei Cloud developer profile · 2020

Community

  1. 2023

    UNICEF

    Project intern at the Education Office of UNICEF China, contributing to a social-emotional learning (SEL) video-resource project.

  2. 2022–2024

    Shiguang Poetry

    Contributed as a volunteer product manager to a nonprofit focused on poetry education.

  3. 2020; 2021; 2023

    PEER

    Worked on educational program design, research and technical support. Co-initiated the Youth E program and led its detailed design and follow-through; contributed to training for school-based volunteers and research on students’ learning during the pandemic. Led the website migration and upgrade, initiated a wiki-based teaching knowledge base, and supported SCRM development and testing.

    Youth E program (Chinese)Student perspectives on online learning (Chinese)

  4. 2016; 2017

    Tsinghua University volunteer teaching · Guizhou summer programs

    Joined two 21-day rural summer camps in Zunyi, Guizhou, serving as curriculum lead and then team lead, with responsibility for course design and team coordination.

Sport

I enjoy cycling, running, trail running and CrossFit.

Recent races

Contact

Email
houyx15@gmail.com
GitHub
github.com/houx15

AI assistant and conversation data

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When live conversation is enabled, sending a question submits it and the current article identifier to this site's backend. The backend sends recent conversation, an index of earlier exchanges, any recalled records and retrieved public material to Alibaba Cloud Bailian to generate a response. Cloudflare Turnstile verifies visitors when a session is created; no account is required. Do not submit secrets or private information. The model and verification providers' data-processing policies apply.

The current browser tab stores the last ten interactions in session storage to support returning between reading and chat. Clearing the conversation removes those local records. Server sessions last one hour and retain up to twenty completed exchanges. The latest three are included directly in context; earlier records are retrieved when needed. Expired records are cleaned up on subsequent requests. “Start over” abandons the current session but does not immediately delete its server records. Across HTTPS pages in the same tab, session storage holds a one-hour session credential so the backend can restore recent context and an index of earlier exchanges. This is not the model provider’s API key. Expired credentials or unavailable storage require verification again; displayed history is not automatically imported into a new session.

The server also retains quota, budget and short-term request-limit records; connection identifiers are hashed with a secret key. The application does not keep additional question logs, but the session store contains the conversation text described above. Failed model requests produce operational records containing only a random request ID, fixed error category, processing stage, call count and whether partial output was shown; these contain no questions, answers, IP addresses or credentials. The AI's tools access public site material, not private files, personal chats or credentials. Citations do not guarantee that every sentence is correct: check the original sources and distinguish my views, quoted views and model inference.

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