I'm an Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
I am also affiliated with the GroupLens Research Lab, a group of HCI faculty and students in the department.
My research areas are human-centered artificial intelligence, explainability and interpretability, and hybrid intelligence systems.
I study these areas in two ways: (1) critically evaluating existing systems and tools on meeting their intended goals;
and (2) designing and building new systems that leverage human-centered cognitive, social, and organizational norms for human-machine collaboration.
I apply these methods in a variety of domains, including exploratory data analysis, workplace wellbeing and productivity,
knowledge search and sensemaking.
I received my Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan, where I was co-advised by
Cliff Lampe and Eric Gilbert.
Latest News
January 2026: Four papers accepted to CHI 2026! Excited to share this breadth of work on trustworthy LLMs for scholarly literature search, online meeting inclusivity, and algorithmic vs. design frictions on social media.
August 2025: Paper on a Socratic LLM system for improving multi-perspectivist data annotation accepted to CSCW.
Very excited to discuss the potential for positive use-cases of LLMs like this one.
April 2025: Paper on modeling XAI use based on people's personality, prior experience, and demographics accepted to FAccT.
We hope this is a conversation starter for the measurement challenges related to user characteristics for XAI.
January 2025: Paper on a cross-level comparison of Generative AI use in design accepted to CHI. We present qualitative results from comparing how
students and professionals use generative AI, and outline a rift in the value system of these stakeholders which is driven by their expertise differential in practice.
October 2024: Many thanks to Google for funding my research with an Academic Research Award.
September 2024: Welcoming my first PhD students to the lab: Anna Martin-Boyle and
Malik Khadar!
June 2024: Grateful to Microsoft and TikTok for their research funding gifts.
August 2023: Started my new position as a tenure-track faculty at the University of Minnesota. Excited to
teach a research seminar on Human-Centered AI this Fall.
May 2023: Successfully defended my dissertation!
August 2022: FeedLens accepted to UIST.
We present results from applying our polymorphic lenses technique to Semantic Scholar, improving engagement and exploration for literature search.
June 2022: Paper on Sensible AI accepted to FAccT.
We propose an alternate framework for interpretability and explainability grounded in sensemaking theory from organizational studies.
Feb 2022: Paper on comparing Automatic Emotion Recognition technology and self-reported affective profiles
accepted to CHI.
Upcoming Travel
March 18 - 21, 2026: Zurich, Switzerland (UZH Informatics Seminar)
April 13 - 17, 2026: Barcelona, Spain (CHI 2026)
