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 activities 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.

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.

CHI 26

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.

CHI 26

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.

CSCW 26

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.

EMNLP proceedings 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)

AAAI 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.

CSCW 2025

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.

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.

WWW 2024

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