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
Two more papers are accepted by CSCW2025!
Seven papers are accepted by CHI2025!
One paper is accepted by CSCW2025!
One paper is accepted by IJHCS!
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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