I am an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Graduate School of Education and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. I am also the Ram and Vijay Shriram Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and a core faculty member of Stanford HCI. My research asks how we design AI to extend human thinking rather than replace it. I take a cognitively grounded approach to HCI, studying how people build knowledge through acts of creation: writing arguments, building models, drawing diagrams. I then design interfaces that make these cognitive structures visible and interactive, so that AI can meaningfully participate in the process without taking it over. This work spans AI thinking tools that preserve learners' roles as active creators, pedagogical systems that help teachers see and support how students learn, and design methods that give educators real agency in shaping the AI tools entering their classrooms.
My research on AI in Education got mentioned in Washington Post article 🔗 .
My talk on AI and Education at Stanford HAI is publihsed on YouTube.
My panel commentary on AI and Creativity is publihsed on YouTube.
We received an Honorable Mention Award at CHI'26 for our work on Metacognitive Demands and Strategies While Using Off-The-Shelf AI Conversational Agents for Health Information.
"Learning by Creating: Designing: A Human Centered Vision for AI in Education" at Columbia University 🔗
I will be visiting the University of Buffalo.
Across seven modules we introduce various topics important for understanding science in the news, including correlation and causation, sampling and selection in experiments, effect size, and source reliability. For each unit we provide teaching materials in the form of PowerPoint and PDFs to be taught in the classroom, lesson plans, and student activities/homework.
- Vincent Cavez
- David Chuan-En Lin (co-advised with Sean Follmer)
- Zoe Kaputa (co-advised with James Landay)
- Neha Rajagopalan (co-advised with Bruce McCandliss)
- Alberto Tono (co-advised with Martin Fischer)
- Anna Gutowska, Stanford CS
- Marielle Zheng, Stanford GSE
- Oliver Huang, University of Toronto
- Xinman (yoyo) Liu, Stanford GSE
- Nidhi Parthasarathy, Lynbrook High School
- Anika Rajaram, Harker High School
- Zoe Kaputa, MS, Stanford CS
- Priyanshi Sharma, Stanford GSE
- Nikki Nasseri, Berkeley Ed
- Lena Hegemann, Aalto University
- Momin Siddiqui, MS, Georgia Tech
- Mayank Sharma, MS, Stanford GSE
- Kaiyu Ren, BS, Stanford CS
- Anchal Sayal, MS, Stanford GSE
- Seonghee Lee, MS, Stanford CS
- Wengxi Li, MS, University of Michigan
- Yiling Zhao, MS, Stanford GSE
- Dylan Iskander, BS, Stanford GSE
- Neha Gupta, PhD, Duke University
- Maho Kohga, MS, Stanford GSE
- Jasmine Shih, MS, Stanford CS
- Miroslav Ivan Suzara, PhD, Stanford GSE
- Vishal Mohanty, MS, Stanford CS
- Madhurima Mahajan, MS, Material Science
- Mei Tan, MS, Stanford GSE
- Chris Pondoc, MS, Stanford CS
- Kelly Chen, MS, Stanford CS
- Jenny Li Han, Masters, Stanford CS
- Tyler Angert, Masters, Harvard GSE
- Yuyu Lin, Masters, Stanford CS
- Hansol Lee, PhD, Stanford GSE
- Steven Moore, Technical University Munich
I am an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Graduate School of Education and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. I am also the Ram and Vijay Shriram Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and a core faculty member of Stanford HCI. My research asks how we design AI to extend human thinking rather than replace it. I take a cognitively grounded approach to HCI, studying how people build knowledge through acts of creation: writing arguments, building models, drawing diagrams. I then design interfaces that make these cognitive structures visible and interactive, so that AI can meaningfully participate in the process without taking it over. This work spans AI thinking tools that preserve learners' roles as active creators, pedagogical systems that help teachers see and support how students learn, and design methods that give educators real agency in shaping the AI tools entering their classrooms.
Honorable mention
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Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI [CHI 2025]
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Human–AI Coevolution [ICLR 2025]
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Dynamic Abstractions: Building the Next Generation of Cognitive Tools and Interfaces [UIST 2024]
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AI-Driven Support for People with Speech & Language Difficulties [CHI 2024]
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Designing for AI-Powered Social Computing Systems [CSCW 2023]
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LLMs and the Infrastructure of CSCW [CSCW 2023]
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