Joseph Chee Chang

Joseph Chee Chang is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. His work focuses on

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing

He develops tools for scholarly synthesis, literature review, and research ideation.

Research Highlights

Chang designs mixed-initiative systems like IdeaSynth for research idea development and Social-RAG for socially grounded AI generation. His PaperWeaver system recontextualizes academic recommendations, while Qlarify offers hierarchical paper summaries. Current projects include SciArena (2025) for evaluating scientific foundation models and PaperMage (2023) for document processing.