HCI + AI + Social Impact
About
Dr. Yi-Chieh (EJ) Lee is an assistant professor in computer science at NUS and holds a joint appointment at Yale-NUS. Before moving to Singapore, he was a researcher at NTT, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), computational social science, conversational user interfaces, human-AI collaboration, and human-centered AI. He recently focused on designing AI conversational agents to promote mental well-being and behavior change. He is passionate about bridging social impact and AI technologies; thus, he dedicates himself to creating new technology interventions to facilitate human-AI interaction and generating recommendations for future technology design.
Email: yclee@nus.edu.sg
Office: AS6-04-05
News
We successfully secured Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) seed grant! (Lead PI, 2024 - 2026)
Thanks, Avature, for supporting our lab's research! (2024 - 2025)
Our project received Google South Asia & Southeast Asia research awards! (Co-PI, 2024)
Serve as CHI'25 Student Design Competition co-chairs
Serve as CSCW'25 AC
Serve as CHI'24 AC
I am invited to be Nomura Forum Speaker (June 8, 2023)
I am invited to TEDx Talk (May 7, 2023)
One paper is accepted by CSCW2023!
Two papers are accepted by CHI2023! [download]
Our collaboration project received Cornell-NUS Global Strategic Collaboration Award! (Dec. 2022)
Our paper received the CSCW2022 Award of Diversity and Inclusion Recognition!
See my comments on the Communications of ACM - Raising the Voices of the Dead
I serve as a Publicity co-chair for IUI2023
I serve as a Virtual co-chair for CSCW2022
I serve Program committee for CONVERSATIONS2022
I serve as a Consortium chair for TAICHI2022
I will join NUS SoC and Yale-NUS as an assistant professor from July 2022.
Invite talk - YZU (Feb. 25, 2022)
Invite talk - NYCU (Feb. 24, 2022)
I successfully passed my Ph.D. defense! (May 4, 2021)
I am invited to GroupLens Seminar (Mar. 18, 2021)
I am invited to Dagstuhl Seminar (Sep. 19-24, 2021)
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