Hirokazu Shirado

Hirokazu Shirado is an Associate Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on computational social science and social computing, particularly exploring how machine intelligence can enhance human cooperation and coordination in hybrid human-machine systems.

Education includes a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University (2019) and earlier engineering degrees from Keio University. Prior to academia, he worked at Sony Corporation as an engineering researcher for eight years and held visiting research roles at Harvard Medical School and Keio University.

His Computation & Collective Lab (C&C Lab) investigates challenges in collective action, such as social dilemmas in resource sharing and traffic coordination. Notable work includes experiments with 'bots' in social networks to improve group performance and studies on autonomous systems' impact on human reciprocity norms. The lab also pioneers cyber-physical experiments, like autonomous driving simulations, to understand societal implications of AI.

Research interests span AI ethics, computational social experiments, and the design of socially-aware machine intelligence. Key findings include how strategic 'stingy bots' can enhance human welfare and how autonomous systems can disrupt traditional social norms in driving coordination.