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Hello, I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where I am fortunate to be advised by Mina Lee. Previously, I was a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University.


My research sits at the intersection of HCI, AI and CSS. I explore how human-AI collaboration unfolds in practice and how we can better evaluate human-AI systems. I am interested in how AI can be designed and used to augment cognitive capacities. I create and evaluate AI systems to capture how they change the way we think and communicate. Currently, I focus on reading and writing as the fundamental processes through which we engage with information, from reception to production.



Please feel free to drop me an email if you have shared interests!

Jiayin Zhi (she/her)

📧 jzhi@uchicago.edu



Selected Works

Investigating the Effects of LLM Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints: Access Timing and Time Availability

Jiayin Zhi, Harsh Kumar, Mina Lee.

Accepted at CHI 26.

[Paper]

What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation

Jiayin Zhi, Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So, Mina Lee.

Accepted at CHI 26.

[Paper]

Content Creation with Generative AI: How Do Content Creators Responsibly Use Genera-

tive AI Tools?

Jini Kim, Manqing Yu, Jiayin Zhi, Stephanie Milani, Jingwen Cheng, Xianzhe Fan, Hong Shen, Jodi Forlizzi.

Accepted at CSCW 26.

[Paper]

PATIENT-Ψ: Using Large Language Models to Simulate Patients for Training Mental Health Professionals

Ruiyi Wang*, Stephanie Milani*, Jamie C. Chiu, Jiayin Zhi, Shaun M. Eack, Travis Labrum, Samuel M. Murphy, Nev Jones, Kate Hardy, Hong Shen, Fei Fang, Zhiyu Zoey Chen.

In Proceedings of EMNLP 2024.

Investigating What Factors Influence Users’ Rating of Harmful Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination

Sara Kingsley*, Jiayin Zhi*, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Jaimie Lee, Sizhe Zhang, Motahhare Eslami†, Ken Holstein†, Jason I. Hong†, Tianshi Li†, Hong Shen†. (* equal contribution, † equal contribution)

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2024. Best Paper Award 🏆

"You’re in a Ferrari. I’m Waiting for the Bus": Confronting Tensions in Community-University Partnerships for Publicly Deployed Technologies

Cella M Sum, Jiayin Zhi, Amil N.T. Cook, Patrick James Cooper, Arturo Lozano, TJ Johnson, Jason Perez, Rayid Ghani, Michael Skirpan, Motahhare Eslami, Hong Shen, Sarah E Fox.

In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW 2025.

[Paper]

AI Failure Cards: Understanding and Supporting Grassroots Efforts to Mitigate AI Failures in Homeless Services

Ningjing Tang, Jiayin Zhi, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Calla Kainaroi, Jeremy J Northup, Kenneth Holstein, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Hong Shen.

In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2024.

Predicting and Presenting Task Difficulty for Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Platforms

Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Jiayin Zhi, Siqi Zeng, Zhicheng Zhang, Ameesh Kapoor, Sean Hudson, Hong Shen, Fei Fang.

In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024.

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