Faculty

Dakuo Wang
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
Postdoc

Jumana Almahmoud
I’m a researcher and designer specializing in Human-AI Interaction and human-centered design. I recently earned my PhD in Computer Science from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, where I explored innovative ways to enhance collaboration, learning, and meaningful interactions between people and technology.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Smit Desai
Conversational AI researcher exploring mental models to develop innovative technologies that support, rather than mimic, humans in need. Incoming Assistant Professor @ CAMD, with an affiliate appointment in Khoury CS.
Northeastern University, 271 Huntington Avenue, Room 226 H, Boston, MA 02115

Bingsheng 'Arthur' Yao
Bingsheng 'Arthur' Yao earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Advisor: Prof. Jim Hendler). His research centers on the intersection of NLP and HCI, with a particular focus on Use-Inspired AI. Arthur strives to responsibly design human-centered AI systems with advanced domain-specific NLP technologies to support stakeholders’ collaboration in real-world scenarios, such as medical, healthcare, and education.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
PhD Student

Shihan Fu
Shihan is a first-year Ph.D. student at Northeastern University in Computer Science, advised by Dakuo Wang. His research interest lies in human-AI interaction and AI for healthcare.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Yuxuan Lu
Yuxuan is a second-year Ph.D. student at Northeastern University in Computer Science, advised by Dakuo Wang. His research interest lies in natural language processing and human-computer interaction, especially in training, running and utilizing Large Language Models effiently. He is currently working as a intern applied scientist at Amazon A9.com.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Ziyi Wang
Ziyi Wang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Northeastern University advised by Prof. Dakuo Wang. Her research interest lies in Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on LLM Agents. (She is a cat lover BTW)
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
Visiting Student

AmirAli Amini
Amirali Amini is a senior Computer Science student at the University of Tehran and a Research Assistant at NEU HAI. His research focuses on NLP and Human-Computer Interaction for healthcare, with a passion for designing user-centered AI systems and improving healthcare accessibility.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Jiaju Chen
Jiaju Chen is a Master student in Computer Science at Rice University. His research interests lie in Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on AI for education. His works span from constructing datasets, building models to desigining and developing LLM-empowered applications for education.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Jiachen Li
Jiachen Li is a Computer Science PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Beth Mynatt and Prof. Varun Mishra. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health, ubiComp and AI using HCI methods, with a focus on the older adult population.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Wenbo Li
Wenbo is a Master student in computer science at University of Southern California. His research interests lie in human-computer interaction, especially user interfaces for human-LLM interaction and human-AI collaboration
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
Siyi Wu
Siyi (Reyna) Wu is a Ph.D student in Computer Science at University of Toronto. Her research interests lie in HCI, human-AI collaborations, and interdisciplinary human-human collaborations.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Ruishi Zou
Ruishi Zou is currently a master's student in Computer Science at UC San Diego. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, specifically in how AI could be engineered to derive alternative representations of information that augment the cognitive process of human information processing.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
Research Assistant

Menglin Zhao
Menglin Zhao is a Research Assistant at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Dakuo Wang.
440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115
Alumni

Reina Chan
Reina (Szeyi) is a Master’s student in Computer Science at Northeastern University. Her research interest lies in human-AI interaction and accessible technology.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Ziqi Yang
Ziqi is currently a PhD student in Informatics at University of California, Irvine. My research interests lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and personal health informatics.
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697

Shao Zhang
I am a last-year PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy supervied by Prof. Ying Wen. I was a visiting student at Northeastern Human-Centered AI Lab from 2023 to 2024. My research interests include Human-AI Collaboration and Multi-agent System.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 310C West Village H, Boston, MA 02115

Zhiping Zhang
Zhiping is a PhD student at Northeastern University advised by Prof. Tianshi Li. She is working on human-centered privacy research on language models and AI agentics systems.
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, 440 Huntington Avenue, 202 West Village H, Boston, MA 02115