Jiawen Stefanie Zhu

Little human inside Turing machine, playing with the tape.

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Hello! I'm a PhD student at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, working with Dr. Katharina Reinecke and Dr. Tanu Mitra. I obtained my bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo, where I was advised by Dr. Jian Zhao.

I'm broadly interested in
augmenting human cognition
with AI by (1) designing and evaluating human-AI interactions and (2) developing algorithms and models that enable them. My recent work has focused on
balancing efficiency with epistemic rigour
during sensemaking and information seeking. My research is supported by an NSERC CGRS-D (Merci!).

Outside of scholarly pursuits, I train in martial arts. I also enjoy reading, hiking, and exploring languages.



Selected Work (see all)

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    Jiawen Stefanie Zhu, Katharina Reinecke, and Tanushree Mitra
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