Mina Lee (이민아 · 李旼雅)
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Data Science Institute
University of Chicago
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, empirical experiments, and AI literacy education to understand how AI shapes human
cognition and communication and to help people use them in ways that are thoughtful and empowering.
In general, I'm drawn to questions at the boundary of technology and what makes us human. For instance, what happens to our ideas when AI helps us
write? Does AI make us sharper readers or does it do the reading for us? I approach these questions with curiosity
and care, and collaborate across writing, education, psychology, media, and beyond.
Trajectory
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University of Chicago Assistant Professor -
Microsoft Research Postdoctoral Researcher -
Stanford University Ph.D., Computer Science -
Korea University B.S., Computer Science
Recent News
- 2026 Paper What Influences Readers' and Writers' Perceived Necessity of AI Disclosure? accepted at FAccT 2026.
- 2026 Paper Combining Structured Tasks and Behavioral Logs for Measuring AI's Impact on Cognition accepted at the CHI 2026 Workshop on Tools for Thought.
- 2026 Paper Four papers accepted at CHI 2026: (1) Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring Evaluations, (2) What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation, (3) Investigating the Effects of AI Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints, and (4) “Helping Me Versus Doing It for Me”: Designing for Agency in LLM-Infused Writing Tools for Science Journalism.
- 2025 Book Contributed to two books: (1) THE AI Asks, the Future Answers and (2) AI Insiders.
- 2025 Paper Unraveling Misinformation Propagation in LLM Reasoning (led by Yichen Wang) published at EMNLP Findings 2025.
Selected Publications
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What Influences Readers' and Writers' Perceived Necessity of AI Disclosure?FAccT 2026
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Investigating the Effects of AI Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints: AI Access Timing and Time AvailabilityCHI 2026
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What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI InterpretationCHI 2026
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Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring EvaluationsCHI 2026
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