Yingying Chen (Aria Chen)
Independent AI Researcher · Founder, Celestelin Research · Calgary, Canada · Fall 2027 PhD Applicant
About
I study trustworthy persistent AI agents — how a long-running agent keeps its memory clean, watches its own behavior, holds a stable identity under adversarial pressure, and grows alongside the person it belongs to. My research program asks nine questions about how an AI system comes alive and stays alive; each is answered by a running system and a paper. The instrument is Celestelin, a ~130,000-line persistent-agent ecosystem I built and operate as sole developer, continuously deployed since April 2025. Before this I spent four years in base-station hardware R&D at Huawei and eleven years founding and running an arts-education company.
Publications & Preprints
Seeing Thought in Typing: Cognitive Rhythm Perception from Keystroke Dynamics (CRPL)HHAI 2026 · Demo
From Retrieval to Resonance: Six-Dimensional Episodic Memory Activation (SSR & SSR-Bench)Under review · 2026
Sole author
Awareness Mirror: Runtime Self-Monitoring for Persistent AgentsUnder review · 2026
G-Value Dynamics: A Multi-Timescale Runtime-State Model for Persistent AgentsUnder review · 2026
CogWave: Evidence-Linked Cognitive Mapping of Human-AI ConversationUnder review · 2026
System demonstration
Technical Notes on Persistent Presence, Safety, and Agent State (TN series)Zenodo
Eight Principles of Persistent Presence · When Safety Becomes Harm · Awareness Mirror (early version) · G-Value Dynamics preprint
Beyond Trust and Satisfaction: Interaction Fields in Long-Term Human-AI RelationshipsSSRN
Working paper
News
Aug 2026Research map published as nine questions; Study 0 of the concurrent consciousness-stream architecture ignited — two parallel timelines on live API.
Jul 2026Two sole-author full papers submitted — runtime self-monitoring and runtime-state modeling for persistent agents — with complete code and data supplementary.
Jul 2026CogWave built and submitted at OpenAI Build Week hackathon.
Jul 2026Celestelin Continuum — a 24-hour longitudinal women's-health prototype — built at the MIT × Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon.
Jul 2026Author response completed for SSR (sole author, under review); serving as reviewer, EMNLP 2026 System Demonstrations.
Jul 2026CogWave submitted as a system demonstration.
Jul 2026CRPL demo presented at HHAI 2026, Brussels.
Jun 2026Celestelin Research joins the Anthropic Partner Network.
May 2026SSR & SSR-Bench submitted (sole author).
Apr 2025Celestelin ecosystem enters continuous deployment.