Scholar
Jessica Y. Bo
Google Scholar ID: fTKVUJsAAAAJ
University of Toronto
Citations & Impact
Citations
345
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
12
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- 1. July 2025, Awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (only recipient from UofT CS)
- 2. June 2025, Renewed Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship
- 3. May 2025, Released preprint 'Steerable Chatbots' from Google AR internship
- 4. May 2025, Paper 'To Rely or Not to Rely' received Honourable Mention at CHI 2025; Short paper 'Who's the Leader?' in Tools-for-Thoughts Workshop
- 5. October 2024, In Pittsburgh for UIST and AAAI HCOMP (presenting recent paper on LLM Disclosures & Disclaimers)
- 6. June 2024, Joining Schwartz Reisman Institute as a Graduate Fellow
- 7. June 2024, Received Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship
- 8. February 2024, Received Wolfond Scholarship from the CS department
- 9. January 2024, 'Incremental XAI' from NUS internship accepted to CHI 2024
- 10. September 2023, Started PhD at University of Toronto
- 11. Co-founded Attentiv Medical, a sensor-embedded IV catheter that won the National James Dyson Award
Research Experience
- 1. Google AR: LLM personalization
- 2. MIT, with Giovanni Traverso, ML for Healthcare
- 3. National University of Singapore, with Brian Lim, Explainable AI
- 4. EPFL, with Amir Zamir, Embodied Perception
- 5. UBC, with Mike Van der Loos, Human-Robot Interactions
Education
- 1. University of Toronto, PhD in Computer Science, Advisor: Ashton Anderson
- 2. ETH Zurich, MSc in Mechanical Engineering
- 3. University of British Columbia, BASc in Mechanical Engineering
Background
- A 2nd year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto, focusing on human-AI interactions, particularly transparency, reliance, and decision making with Generative AI. Also a Junior Fellow at Massey College, Graduate Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Vector Institute.
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned