I'm Mina Lee
a HCI and NLP researcher
at UChicago.

CV

About Me

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science, Data Science Institute, and Cognitive Science (affiliated) at the University of Chicago. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Percy Liang. Before that, I was an undergraduate at Korea University. My research is at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP).

My research focuses on Writing with AI, exploring how AI is changing our writing process, the content we create, and our identities as writers. I design and evaluate AI writing assistants (e.g., design space), investigate human-AI collaborative writing processes (e.g., CoAuthor) and conduct user studies, controlled experiments, and surveys to examine the broader implications, such as how AI might shift social norms around authorship, reshape writing education, and influence our everyday communication. I collaborate with researchers across HCI, NLP, and social computing, as well as in fields like education, law, and media.

Research Areas

  • Writing with AI
  • Human-AI Interaction

Education

  • Stanford Ph.D. in Computer Science
  • Korea University B.S. in Computer Science

Recent News

Upcoming talks and trips
  • [Talk] UChicago Psychology (2025/04/01)
  • [Talk] UIUC HCI (2025/04/02)
  • [Talk] UChicago Mindscapes (2025/04/08)
  • [Talk] Google (virtual) (2025/04/14)
  • [Talk] Microsoft Masterclass (virtual) (2025/04/23)
  • [Conference] CHI 2025 (2025/04/26-2025/05/01)
  • [Talk] ACM-W (2025/05/20)
  • [Talk] Northwestern TSB (2025/05/22)

Selected Works

Audience Impressions of Narrative Structures and Personal Language Style in Science Communication on Social Media Grace Li, Yuanyang Teng, Juna Kawai Yue, Unaisah Ahmed, Anatta S Tantiwongse, Jessica Y Liang, Dorothy Zhang, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Tao Long, Mina Lee, Lydia B Chilton Preprint
Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Sylvia Vitello, Jake M. Hofman, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David M. Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates Preprint
A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants Mina Lee, Katy Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L.C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, et al. CHI 2024 Project website
Building Machines that Learn and Think with People Katherine M. Collins, Ilia Sucholutsky, Umang Bhatt, Kartik Chandra, Lionel Wong, Mina Lee, Cedegao E. Zhang, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Mark Ho, Vikash Mansinghka, Adrian Weller, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griffiths Natural Human Behavior 2024
Evaluating Human-Language Model Interaction Mina Lee, Megha Srivastava, Amelia Hardy, John Tickstun, Esin Durmus, Ashwin Paranjape, Ines Gerard-Ursin, Xiang Lisa Li, Faisal Ladhak, Frieda Rong, Rose E. Wang, Minae Kwon, Joon Sung Park, Hancheng Cao, Tony Lee, Rishi Bommasani, Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang TMLR 2023
CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities Mina Lee, Percy Liang, Qian Yang CHI 2022 Honorable Mention Award Project website
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, Antoine Bosselut, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shyamal Buch, Dallas Card, Rodrigo Castellon, Niladri Chatterji, Annie Chen, Kathleen Creel, Jared Quincy Davis, Dora Demszky, Chris Donahue, Moussa Doumbouya, et al. Preprint
Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks Chris Donahue, Mina Lee, Percy Liang ACL 2020