Northeastern University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab (NEU HAI)

The Northeastern University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab (NEU HAI, pronounced “new-hi”) is lead by Prof. Dakuo Wang.

Prof. Dakuo Wang is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University, jointly appointed at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on the exploration, development, and evaluation of human-centered AI (HCAI) systems. The overarching goal is to democratize AI for every person and every organization, so that they can access their own AI and collaborate with these real-world AI systems (human-AI collaboration).

News

2026.04	We have 4 papers accepted at ACL 2026 main conference: “Can LLM Agents Simulate Multi-Turn Human Behavior?”, “Multi-Agent-as-Judge”, “OPeRA”, and “Trajectory2Task”. See you in San Diego!
2026.01	Our paper “RECOVER: Designing a Large Language Model-based Remote Patient Monitoring System for Postoperative Gastrointestinal Cancer Care” is accepted at CSCW 2026! See you in Salt Lake City!
2025.12	Our lab members are traveling to San Diego, CA to attend NeurIPS 2025 (Dec 2nd-7th)! We are excited to participate in the Multi-Turn Interaction LLM Workshop and the Scaling Environment Agent Workshop. See you there!
2025.01	Our lab members are traveling to Yokohama, Japan to attend CHI 2025! We are excited to see you all there!
2025.01	Our paper has been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholders’ Perspective Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan (Leo) Lu, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Elissa Fan, Ying Xu, Dakuo Wang, Yuling Sun
2025.01	Our paper has been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 Promoting Prosociality via Micro-acts of Joy: A Large-Scale Well-Being Intervention Study Hitesh Goel, Xuhai (Orson) Xu, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang
2025.01	Our paper has been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 Examining Student and Teacher Perspectives on Undisclosed Use of Generative AI in Academic Work Rudaiba Adnin, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang, Maitraye Das
2025.01	Our paper has been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 Live-Streaming-Based Dual-Teacher Classes for Equitable Education: Insights and Challenges From Local Teachers’ Perspective in Disadvantaged Areas Yuling Sun, Jiaju Chen, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang
2025.01	Our paper has been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 CardioAI: A Multimodal AI System to Support Symptom Monitoring and Risk Detection of Cancer Treatment-Induced Cardiotoxicity Siyi (Reyna) Wu, Weidan Cao, Ping Zhang, Varun Mishra, Changchang Yin, Ziqi Yang, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Shihan Fu, Dakuo Wang
2023.10	We have 2 papers accepted at EMNLP2023: “An Automatic Science Journalism Framework” and “Active Learning for human annotators with explanations”