Mina Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2023.
Her research centers around Writing with AI, especially how AI is transforming our writing process, the content we produce, and our identities as writers. Concretely, she designs writing assistants, captures and analyzes human-AI interaction, evaluates the ability of AI to complement human capabilities, and develops new techniques to further enhance our productivity and creativity. Her research is at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and human-computer interaction (HCI).
She was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Korean Innovators under 35 in 2022, and her work has been published in generalist journals (e.g., Nature Human Behavior) as well as top-tier conferences in NLP (e.g., ACL and NAACL), machine learning (e.g., NeurIPS), and HCI (e.g., CHI). Her work on human-AI collaborative writing received an Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2022 and was featured in various media outlets, including The Economist.
She has co-founded and organized workshops on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing) and Human-centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models (HEAL) at ACL 2022, CHI 2023, and CHI 2024.
