Mina Lee (이민아 · 李旼雅)

Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Data Science Institute,
University of Chicago

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Email mnlee@cs.uchicago.edu

Office DSI 317

I lead the AI & Me group at UChicago, studying how AI is changing the way we write, read, and think. My research combines AI system design, user studies, controlled experiments, and log analyses to address questions at the intersection of technology and human values.

Interests

  • Writing with AI
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Societal Impacts of AI
  • AI Literacy

Trajectory

  • University of Chicago Assistant Professor
  • Microsoft Research Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Stanford University Ph.D., Computer Science
  • Korea University B.S., Computer Science

Awards

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Selected Publications

  • Investigating the Effects of AI Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints: AI Access Timing and Time Availability
    Jiayin Zhi, Harsh Kumar, Mina Lee
    CHI 2026
    Website PDF Thread
  • Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring Evaluations
    Alicia Liu, Mina Lee, Xuechunzi Bai
    CHI 2026
    ★ Best Paper Award Website PDF
  • Figure for A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
    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, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue
    CHI 2024
    Website PDF Code Thread Video
  • Figure for CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities
    CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities
    Mina Lee, Percy Liang, Qian Yang
    CHI 2022
    ★ Honorable Mention Award Website PDF Thread Video
  • 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, Esin Durmus, Stefano Ermon, John Etchemendy, Kawin Ethayarajh, Li Fei-Fei, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Gale, Lauren Gillespie, Karan Goel, Noah Goodman, Shelby Grossman, Neel Guha, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Peter Henderson, John Hewitt, Daniel E. Ho, Jenny Hong, Kyle Hsu, Jing Huang, Thomas Icard, Saahil Jain, Dan Jurafsky, Pratyusha Kalluri, Siddharth Karamcheti, Geoff Keeling, Fereshte Khani, Omar Khattab, Pang Wei Kohd, Mark Krass, Ranjay Krishna, Rohith Kuditipudi, Ananya Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Mina Lee, Tony Lee, Jure Leskovec, Isabelle Levent, Xiang Lisa Li, Xuechen Li, Tengyu Ma, Ali Malik, Christopher D. Manning, Suvir Mirchandani, Eric Mitchell, Zanele Munyikwa, Suraj Nair, Avanika Narayan, Deepak Narayanan, Ben Newman, Allen Nie, Juan Carlos Niebles, Hamed Nilforoshan, Julian Nyarko, Giray Ogut, Laurel Orr, Isabel Papadimitriou, Joon Sung Park, Chris Piech, Eva Portelance, Christopher Potts, Aditi Raghunathan, Rob Reich, Hongyu Ren, Frieda Rong, Yusuf Roohani, Camilo Ruiz, Jack Ryan, Christopher Ré, Dorsa Sadigh, Shiori Sagawa, Keshav Santhanam, Andy Shih, Krishnan Srinivasan, Alex Tamkin, Rohan Taori, Armin W. Thomas, Florian Tramèr, Rose E. Wang, William Wang , Bohan Wu, Jiajun Wu, Yuhuai Wu, Sang Michael Xie, Michihiro Yasunaga, Jiaxuan You, Matei Zaharia, Michael Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xikun Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Lucia Zheng, Kaitlyn Zhou, Percy Liang
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