people

Penn HCI is founded and led by incoming Assistant Professors Andrew Head and Danaë Metaxa. We are currently recruiting postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers to join us next year at Penn.

faculty

Andrew Head

Andrew Head

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Human-computer interation
Programming languages
Data science
Applications of AI

Links:

@drewmikehead

andrewhead

https://andrewhead.info

Danaë Metaxa

Danaë Metaxa

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Human-Computer Interaction
Social Computing
Human-Centered AI

Links:

@DrMetaxa

https://metaxa.net

students

Jiening Li

Jiening Li

Master’s Student, University of Pennsylvania

Zed Wu

Zed Wu

Master’s Student, University of Pennsylvania

Harrison Goldstein

Harrison Goldstein

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Shi

Jessica Shi

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Ro Encarnacion

Ro Encarnacion

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Algorithmic Justice
HC-AI
Public Interest Tech Policy

Links:

https://roencarnacion.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemariele/

Ekaterina Fedorova

Ekaterina Fedorova

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Recommender Systems
Mechanism Design
Social Computing

Links:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yC8WaU0AAAAJ&hl=en

https://ek8terina.github.io/opossum_girlie/

Alyssa Hwang

Alyssa Hwang

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Human-AI Interaction
Natural Language Processing
Voice Assistants

Links:

ahwang16

https://alyssahwang.com

Hita Kambhamettu

Hita Kambhamettu

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Healthcare + HCI

Links:

https://hita-k.github.io/

Yaaseen Mahomed

Yaaseen Mahomed

Master’s Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Algorithm Audits
Fairness and Societal Impact of LLMs

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaaseen-m/

Princess Sampson

Princess Sampson

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

HCI + Algorithmic Justice
Human-Centered AI

Links:

@pdotsamp

https://psampson.net

https://hci.social/@princess

Jeff Tao

Jeff Tao

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Stephanie Wang

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Computational Social Science
HCI

Litao Yan

Litao Yan

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Focus:

Human-Computer Interaction
Human-AI Interaction

Links:

@@litao_yan

https://yanlitao.github.io/

collaborators

Chris Callison-Burch

Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Raymond Fok

PhD Student, University of Washington

Andrew Zhu

Andrew Zhu

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Lena Armstrong

Lena Armstrong

Incoming PhD Student, Harvard University

Areas of Focus:

Human-AI Interaction
Algorithmic Justice
Algorithm Audits

Links:

https://lenaarmstrong.github.io/

Michelle Lam

Michelle Lam

PhD Student, Stanford University

Areas of Focus:

Human-Centered AI

Links:

@michelle123lam

https://michelle123lam.github.io/

Sorelle Friedler

Associate Professor, Haverford College (Computer Science)

Yasmin Kafai

Professor, University of Pennsylvania (GSE)

Stephen MacNeil

Assistant Professor, Temple University (Computer and Information Sciences)

Luis Morales-Navarro

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania (GSE)

Abbey Liu

PhD Student, Temple University

Alvin Zhou

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota (Communication)