Lei Shi

Lei Shi is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University specializing in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. Their research focuses on improving interactions between humans and AI through empirical understanding of AI-powered systems with ethical, legal, and societal values.

Dr. Shi's primary research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Gesture Recognition, Ethical AI, and Inclusive Design. Their work develops intelligent software and hardware that advance creativity, productivity, adaptability, participation, diversity, inclusion, and heterogeneity across education, design, publicity, and wellbeing domains.

Dr. Shi's recent research introduces a system where users can define their own textual inputs with personalized hand gestures. Using a lightweight Multilayer Perceptron architecture based on contrastive learning, their approach reduces data requirements and training time while maintaining accuracy, addressing individual user style variation in gesture recognition.

As a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC funded AGENCY project (EP/W032481/1) focused on 'Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms,' Dr. Shi contributes to establishing interdisciplinary methods to provide online agency. Their work bridges technical innovation with social considerations to develop human-centered AI systems.