Ti-Chung Cheng is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UIUC specializing in preference elicitation and HCI. His research on Quadratic Surveys and human-AI decision processes has appeared at CHI, CSCW, and Collective Intelligence, earning a CHI Honorable Mention. He has twice interned at Microsoft Research, tackling LLM misinformation detection and building DevOps tooling. Beyond scholarship, he engineered Here@Illinois, a cloud attendance system used by 1,000+ students. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, Bayesian analysis, and full-stack prototyping, he mentors large teaching teams and has twice received Outstanding TA awards. Cheng advances trustworthy collective-decision technologies through research, software, and community engagement efforts.