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 leads the SaNDwich Lab. He also serves as the Director of the Human-Centered Responsible AI Lab in the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI). Toby received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was advised by Brad A. Myers. Toby also worked closely with Tom M. Mitchell. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where he worked with Brent Hecht in 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, EMNLP, MobiCom, MobiSys, ICSE, FSE, VL/HCC), including 8 papers that won Best Paper or Best Paper Honorable Mention awards. Toby has collaborated with Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Adobe, 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.