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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 explores how human-AI collaboration unfolds in practice and how we can better evaluate human-AI systems. Currently, I focus on reading and writing as the fundamental cognitive processes through which we engage with information. Concretely, I build AI systems by manipulating design choices (e.g., interaction paradigms, models, access) to evaluate how AI shapes the way people think and communicate, informing design that augments cognitive capacities rather than undermines them.
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.
Conditionally 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.
Conditionally Accepted at CHI 26.
[Paper]

Content Creation with Generative AI: How Do Content Creators Responsibly Use Generative AI Tools?
Jini Kim, Manqing Yu, Jiayin Zhi, Stephanie Milani, Jingwen Cheng, Xianzhe Fan, Hong Shen, Jodi Forlizzi.
Conditionally 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.
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