NEU HAI Northeastern University
Human-Centered AI Lab

Lab members

Faculty and research scientists

  • Dakuo Wang

    Associate Professor, lab director

    Leads the lab. Builds and studies human-centered AI that people can work with as a collaborator.

  • Bingsheng ‘Arthur’ Yao

    Associate Research Scientist

    Works where NLP meets HCI, on AI for health care and education.

  • Yao Du

    Research Scientist

    Speech-language pathologist at USC, building tools for communication disorders.

  • Jia Zhang

    Research Scientist

    Neurologist (M.D.) on brain aging and stroke, interested in HCI for mental health.

PhD students

  • Jiaju Chen

    PhD student

    Builds LLM tools for children’s learning and studies how people work with agents.

  • Jingfei Huang

    PhD student

    Designs multimodal AI for health care, work, and creativity, drawing on a background in design.

  • Menglin Zhao

    PhD student

    PhD student in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Dakuo Wang.

  • Yuxuan Lu

    PhD student

    Trains, runs, and studies LLM agents that simulate how people behave.

  • Zihan Xue

    First-year PhD student

  • Ziyi Wang

    PhD student

    Works on NLP with a focus on LLM agents. Proud owner of a very cute cat named Cakecake.

Research assistants

  • Bo Sun

    Research assistant

    Master’s student at Northeastern, interested in NLP and human-AI interaction.

  • Jiayi (Elise) Su

    Research assistant

    Master’s student in HCI, AI, and health, mostly asking whether the AI actually helps anyone.

  • Yuewen Gao

    Research assistant

    Undergraduate at Nanjing University, interested in human-AI collaboration and visualization.

Visiting students

  • Ruhan Gupta

    Visiting student

    High-school student from Texas building accessible AI systems for education.

Alumni