August 2025: Paper on a Socratic LLM system for multi-perspectivist data annotation accepted to CSCW
April 2025: Paper on modeling XAI use based on personality, experience, and demographics accepted to FAccT
January 2025: Paper on cross-level comparison of Generative AI use in design accepted to CHI
October 2024: Received Google Academic Research Award
June 2024: Received research funding from Microsoft and TikTok
May 2023: Successfully defended dissertation
August 2022: FeedLens accepted to UIST; applied polymorphic lenses to Semantic Scholar to improve literature search engagement
June 2022: Sensible AI framework grounded in sensemaking theory accepted to FAccT
February 2022: Paper comparing Automatic Emotion Recognition and self-reported affective profiles accepted to CHI
Background
Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota
Affiliated with the GroupLens Research Lab (HCI group)
Research areas: human-centered AI, explainability and interpretability, hybrid intelligence systems
Approaches: (1) critically evaluating existing systems; (2) designing new systems grounded in human cognitive, social, and organizational norms for human-machine collaboration
Application domains: exploratory data analysis, workplace wellbeing and productivity, knowledge search and sensemaking