Toby J. Li😺 (he/him)
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Assistant Professor @ND_CSE. Working on HCI+AI for automation to address societal challenges on the future of work. Formerly @cmuhcii and @grouplens.
- Our paper "Multi-Modal Repairs of Conversational Breakdowns in Task-Oriented Dialogs" won a 🏆 Best Paper Award at #uist2020! This work was done @cmuhcii in collaboration with Jingya, @HaijunXia from @DesignLabUCSD, @tommmitchell, and @bradamyers. 📃 bit.ly/3g73UDj
- 📢Excited to announce that we've started a new Human-Centered Responsible AI group at @lucy_institute @NotreDame with interdisciplinary faculty affiliates designing AI systems that empower communities! 👥Recruiting PhD students and postdocs--stay tuned! lucyinstitute.nd.edu/news-events/20…
- I'm applying for faculty and research positions! My research lies at the intersection of HCI systems, applied AI, and human factors in SE. Please reach out if you know a position and think I would be a good fit! My job materials are on my website toby.li
- Honored to receive a Google Research Scholar Award to support our work on human-AI collab in UX design! It won't be possible without the support of colleagues at @ND_CSE and the hard work of students esp @yuwen_lu_ Thanks @GoogleAI for the generous support!research.google/outreach/resea…
- Happy to share that we have a cool human-AI collaborative qualitative coding system that uses an interpretable interactive program synthesis approach named PaTAT for #chi2023! The work is led by my Ph.D. students @simret_araya @roryzzhang and in collab with @roboticwrestler.
- It's this special time of the year again when I cite @jeffbigham 's tweet at the first session of my Graduate HCI Research class...
- It's been almost a whole year after my defense, but I finally feel like a Dr. now! Thanks @bradamyers for the amazing journey in the past 6 years.
- Thanks to my advisor and committee members @bradamyers @tommmitchell @jeffbigham John Zimmerman and Philip Guo for their continued support and guidance! 🙏🙏🙏Congratulations to the @SCSatCMU Dissertation Award winners this year, including honorable mention recipient @TobyJLi and "A Multi-Modal Intelligent Agent that Learns from Demonstrations & Natural Language Instructions", advised by @bradamyers!🎉 Thesis: toby.li/files/TobyLi_T…
- Last night of 6 years in Pittsburgh ❤️❤️ Look forward to what's ahead of us!
- 📢 Excited to announce a #CHI2022 workshop on computational approaches for understanding, generating, and adapting interfaces! 👥Organziers @YueJiang_nj @yuwen_lu_ @jwnichls Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Yu Chun @CLutteroth @yangli169 @RanjithaSKumar and me. 📃CFP to follow shortly
- Got stuck in a long line to pick up bagdes and had a great serendipitous chat with my HCI research hero @ishii_mit. Not a bad way to start #chi2023!
- Congrats @yuwen_lu_ and co-authors for #CSCW2024 best paper award! Check it out--It's a nice tool with a solid theoretical framework exemplifying our line of work on democratizing AI to empower end-users against power imbalance and inequity in cyberspace. @ND_CSE @lucy_instituteoh wow, my first (and only, oops) paper got a best paper award at #cscw2024??!!? congrats to the team @zhangchaodesign @yuewenyyy! Best mentors @yaxingyao @TobyJLi! now i need to make some good slides for next week's presentation... see you all in costa rica!
- Thrilled to share that our paper "StoryBuddy: A Human-AI Collaborative Agent for Parent-Child Interactive Storytelling with Flexible Parent Involvement" led by @zhengzhang_hci @ND_CSE w/ @YYingXu @tongshuangwu @BingshengY @dakuowang and others has been accepted to #CHI2022 !













