Jiawen Stefanie Zhu
Little human inside Turing machine, playing with the tape.

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.
My broad research interest lies in designing and analyzing intelligent interactive systems that can increase the effectiveness of
I obtained my bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo, where I was advised by Dr. Jian Zhao. In my spare time, I like to hike, read, and practice martial arts. I'm also interested in linguistics, and enjoy studying and comparing different languages.
My broad research interest lies in designing and analyzing intelligent interactive systems that can increase the effectiveness of
Human-Human and Human-AI collaboration
. Currently, I am exploring ways to help people navigate our multilingual
world. I obtained my bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo, where I was advised by Dr. Jian Zhao. In my spare time, I like to hike, read, and practice martial arts. I'm also interested in linguistics, and enjoy studying and comparing different languages.
News
2025-05 | Attending GI’25 to present paper on multilingual style control in conversational agents. |
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2024-10 | One co-authored paper on hierarchical code generation at UIST’24. |
2024-05 | Attending CHI’24 to present work on computational notebooks at the Workshop on Human-Notebook Interactions. One co-authored paper on emotional teasers was also accepted. |
2024-01 | Received the CRA 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award - Honorable Mention. |