Mina Lee

Mina Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Data Science Institute and Cognitive Science. Her research focuses on 'Writing with AI,' exploring how AI transforms writing processes, content, and identities. She designs AI writing assistants and evaluates human-AI collaboration through user studies and experiments, addressing ethical implications like authorship norms and educational impacts.

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (2023), advised by Percy Liang. B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University (2016). Postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research's Computational Social Science group (2023–2024).

Research interests span Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), NLP, and computational social science. She co-founded workshops on Intelligent Writing Assistants and Human-centered Evaluation of Language Models. Notable awards include MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 Korea (2022) and a Best Paper Award at GPCE 2016.

Her work has been published in top venues like CHI, ACL, NeurIPS, and Nature Human Behavior. She advises PhD students on AI-assisted writing, cognitive augmentation, and safe generative models. Current lab projects include designing explainable AI tools and studying AI disclosure norms in writing.