Toby J. Li😺 (he/him)
@TobyJLi
Assistant Professor @ND_CSE. Working on HCI+AI for automation to address societal challenges on the future of work. Formerly @cmuhcii and @grouplens.
📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng and @patrickgage Submit your: - Original papers - Encore papers - SoK papers - Vision papers by June 20th! 💻haips.com
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025! Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security (#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎) AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! 🌊 haips.com
📢 Hey folks, are you interested in Humans + AI privacy & security? Let’s talk! Join us for the HAIPS workshop (haips.com) at @acm_ccs #CCS2025 .
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025! Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security (#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎) AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! 🌊 haips.com
I am looking for a postdoc to join my group at @hgse this fall. We'll work together to conduct empirical research on the impacts of AI on child development and advance child-centered AI design. More info and apply: apply.interfolio.com/170921 About the group: ying-xu.com/research/
🦕🖥️We'll do an interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History @NMNH Friday afternoon on Digital Privacy and Security! Come and chat with us if you are in DC ❤️ @yaxingyao @juliaqian21 @LanjingLiu @CharlieCRChen @lucy_institute @ND_CSE naturalhistory.si.edu/events/privacy…
🚨📢 Call for Posters & Showpieces! 🎨🧠 Show your research, prototypes, demos, or ideas at #VLHCC25 from visual languages to AI tools & low-code platforms. 🤖💻 Let your work spark new convos, collabs, and impact! 🗓️ Deadline: July 25th 📍 Submit now: conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-20…
Me trying to have papers at #UIST2025 so we can go to Busan.
Send in your latest work at the insections among human, AI, security and privacy!
Still one week left before the workshop deadline!
@TobyJLi, Director of the HRAI Lab @lucy_institute & Asst. Prof. @NotreDame, designs systems that empower people to shape #AI tools. Catch the Human-Centered Responsible AI session at #RISE_AI this Oct! Learn more: lucyinstitute.nd.edu/news-events/ri… #ResponsibleAI #artificialintelligence
Hey folks - submit your latest work on human-centered and human factors in programming, visual languages, UIs, and many more to the Posters and Showpieces track of VL/HCC! It's a great intimidate community with the great feedback and discussions♥️♥️
The Call for Posters and Showpieces is out! Submission Deadline: 25 Jul 2025 conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-20…
Arrived in Chile for the 1st time. Welcomed by the stunning view of the city below the Andes! I will give a talk at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile tomorrow, sharing work on human-AI alignment done at @ND_CSE @lucy_institute. Thank @domingomery @denisparra for hosting.

Group photo of the Notre Dame @ND_CSE @lucy_institute HCI crew at #CHI2025, with a distinguished ND alum @gabowd joining ♥️♥️

I'll be presenting our 🏆 #CHI2025 paper on using Variation Theory of human learning and Structural Alignment Theory of sensemaking for co-adaptive machine teaching. @TobyJLi @roboticwrestler
Headed to #CHI2025? Don’t miss the exciting contributions, including 11 full papers and more, from Notre Dame researchers @ND_CSE @lucy_institute — and be sure to stop by and say hi! hci.nd.edu/news/eleven-fu…
Investment in early childhood ed pays offs! It strengthens the economy; it helps both children and parents. Check out the impact evidence for Head Start gathered by the brilliant Chloe Gibbs (@chloergibbs), a leading expert on early childhood policy. chloegibbs.com/head-start-imp…
7/🧵The Obvious Invisible Threat: LLM-Powered GUI Agents’ Vulnerability to Fine-Print Injections This paper reveals that LLM-powered GUI agents are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, particularly through Fine-Print Injection, highlighting significant privacy and security…
Ask an AI where to live, travel, or start a business—and it’ll likely recommend wealthy, white-populated cities. This is systemic across LLMs and is not the real distribution of the relevant cities Bias in, bias out. 🤖📍 Shiran Dudi, ..., @TobyJLi @PolarBearby #AI #LLM #bias
I'm here at #IUI2025! Today, I'll be giving a talk on the Limitations of the LLM-as-a-Judge Approach in Evaluating LLM Outputs in Expert Knowledge Tasks - co-led with @NoahZiems and co-authored with @TobyJLi, @Meng_CS, and @rametoyer. Come check it out! dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11…