Toby Jia-Jun Li
Assistant Professor
- Office
- 214B Cushing Hall
- toby.j.li@nd.edu
Computer Science and Engineering
Education
- Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021
- B.S., with Distinction in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2015
Research Interests
Toby Jia-Jun Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame where he directs the SaNDwich Lab. Toby received a Ph.D. degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was advised by Brad A. Myers. Toby also worked closely with Tom M. Mitchell. Prior to Ph.D., Toby received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota where he worked with Brent Hecht as a member of GroupLens Research.
Toby works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), End-User Software Engineering, Machine Learning (ML), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, where he uses human-centered methods to design, build, and study interactive systems to empower individuals to create, configure, and extend AI-powered computing systems. His recent work seeks to address the societal challenges in the future of work through a bottom-up human-AI collaborative approach that helps individual workers automate and augment their tasks with AI systems.
Toby publishes at premier academic venues across HCI, NLP, and systems (e.g., CHI, UIST, CSCW, ACL, MobiSys, VL/HCC), including 4 award-winning papers: a best paper honorable mention paper at CHI ‘21, a best paper at UIST ‘20, a best paper at IS-EUD ‘17, and a best paper honorable mention paper at CHI ‘17. Toby has collaborated with Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Verizon, and J.P. Morgan. His work has been supported by NSF, the Google Research Scholar Program, the AnalytiXIN Initiative, Yahoo! through the InMind project, and J.P. Morgan.