Majeed Kazemitabaar
@MajeedKazemi
Incoming Assistant prof in CS @UAlberta + @Amiithinks | Researching the future of learning to code with AI | Currently PhD @UofT | Prev @UMD & @MSFTResearch
Excited to share that I'll be joining the CS department at @UAlberta as an Assistant Professor in January 2026 where I will be affiliated with @AmiiThinks. I'll be recruiting 2-3 PhD/MSc students and establishing a research lab on AI in Education and Human–AI Interaction.
Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!
Join us at CHI 2025 to explore how AI systems can be used as Tools for Thought as we reimage AI’s role in human thinking. Learn about new research, prototypes, and a workshop on designing AI that supports critical thinking, decision-making, and creativity: msft.it/6016qhMFs
#CHI2025 [Free Dev Kit!✨] Are you an HCI researcher curious about haptics, but don’t know where to start?🤔 Or a haptics expert looking for a scalable toolkit to build your next tactile systems? We introduce VibraForge🔧 An open-source vibrotactile toolkit designed to lower…
I am once more seeking participants for a user study. We'll be evaluating a prototype code editor that completes your text with placeholders for missing tokens expected by the language. Here are a couple vids motivating the editor+study. Details in thread. RTs appreciated! 🙏
Not *quite* what you're looking for (following!) but you might find this upcoming paper at CHI '25 interesting. (Haven't even tweet streamed it yet!) zamfi.net/pdf/CHI25_Beyo… Upshot: if you *do* actually care about what program you end up with, the challenges shift quite a bit!
📢 New Research Alert! Just posted initial details of our latest papers across #CHI2025, #IUI20205, and #HRI2025! All work led by incredibly talented graduate students. Human-Centric AI, Programming Tools, Mixed-Reality, Robotics, and more! 🔗 tovigrossman.com (1/13)
📢 per popular demand, we've extended our submission deadline for our #CHI2025 workshop to Thurs Feb 20th AoE 🙂
📢CHI'25 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐aka.ms/toolsforthough… 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE
Need a paper to read this weekend? I've got just the one for you.
🔬Research ideation is hard: After the spark of a brilliant initial idea, much work is still needed to further develop it into a well-thoughtout project by iteratively expanding and refining the initial idea and grounding it to relevant literature. How can we better support this?
Our paper on human creativity and LLMs has been (cond.) accepted to #CHI25! It's been humbling to see the preprint spark conversations beyond academia (one TikTok discussing it gained 40k+ likes, link in thread). Excited to connect with creativity researchers at the conference!
Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking "Our findings reveal that while LLM assistance can provide short-term boosts in creativity during assisted tasks, it may inadvertently hinder independent creative performance when…
📢CHI'25 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐aka.ms/toolsforthough… 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE
made a map that lets you discover wikipedia pages around the world 🗺️📌
Are you a Ph.D. applicant interested in HCI? Consider applying to @PennHCI! This year, my group will have openings that could be great for those interested in HCI/Programming Languages or AI-augmented documents. DMs are welcome!
I am on the job market, seeking tenure-track or industry research positions starting in 2025. My research combines human-computer interaction and robotics—please visit karthikmahadevan.ca for updated publications and CV. Feel free to reach out if interested. RT appreciated!
Excited to present our paper at #UIST2024 tomorrow in the "AI as Copilot" session (4:10 PM) I'll be discussing how breaking down data analysis tasks into *editable*, *progressively revealed* steps can enhance control over AI and improve verification. 📜 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…
What if we could directly edit the *assumptions* that LLMs make when solving end-to-end coding tasks? Our new #UIST2024 paper shows how decomposing a task into editable and progressively disclosed components enhances control and verification. Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2407.02651
As we work on those #CHI2025 videos 🎥 (deadline: Sept 19), here is a set of inspirational videos curated by my lab. Would love more examples, especially for other HCI research contribution types. Send them my way! docs.google.com/presentation/d…
Done with writing for #CHI2025 - how about some reading for #UIST2024? 😄 Here's a collection of preprints. Suggestions welcome! medium.com/@dbuschek/uist… @gratefulspam @wernergeyer @watkins_welcome @qiaosi_wang @alansaid
So cool to see OpenAI integrating Chain-of-Thought into its o1 models. Our recent #UIST2024 paper is all about making the AI's chain-of-thought interactive and editable! 🤖 > 🧠 > 📝 > 🏗️ 📄arxiv.org/abs/2407.02651
here is o1, a series of our most capable and aligned models yet: openai.com/index/learning… o1 is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it.
HCI systems papers need to tell visual stories. As we near the CHI deadline, here's a set of exemplary figures curated by my lab. Hope it helps inspire! Feel free to contribute some examples. docs.google.com/presentation/d…