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Akari Asai

Akari Asai

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • American and International Study Program, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.E. in Information and Communication Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Tokyo
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Large Language Models and Agents
  • Information Retrieval
  • AI for Science
  • Multilinguality and Global Information Access

she/her/hers

Matthew Davis

Matthew Davis

Assistant Teaching Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department

Education

  • B.S.(Computer Science), Lenoir-Rhyne University
  • M.S.(Software Engineering) ,East Carolina University
  • Ph.D.(Software Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Human Factors of Software Testing Tools
  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Languages
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Automation and Artificial Intelligence for Software Testing
  • Human Studies of Software Engineers

he/him/his

Niloofar Mireshghallah

Niloofar Mireshghallah

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute, EPP: Engineering & Public Policy

Education

  • B.Sc. in (Computer Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • M.S. in (Computer Science), University of California, San Diego
  • Ph.D. in (Computer Science), University of California, San Diego
Steve Rathje

Steve Rathje

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction, Social and Decision Sciences

Education

  • BA in Psychology (with Honors and Distinction), Stanford University
  • Ph.D. in (Psychology), University of Cambridge (Trinity College)

Research Interests

  • Psychology of Technology
  • Human-AI Interaction

He/He/His

Randi Williams

Randi Williams

Assistant Research Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. in (Computer Engineering and Honors College), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD
  • M.S. in (Media, Arts, and Sciences), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
  • Ph.D. in (Media, Arts, and Sciences), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

Research Interests

  • Human-Centered AI
  • AI Literacy and Education
  • Human-Agent and Human-Robot Interaction
  • Responsible Computing
  • AI Ethics and Policy

she/her/hers

Mengzhou Xia

Mengzhou Xia

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering (Data Science & Technology), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • M.S. in (Computational Data Science at LTI), Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. in (Computer Science), Princeton University
Steven Xia

Steven Xia

Assistant Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department

Education

  • B.S., University of Toronto
  • Ph.D. in (Computer Science), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign