Joseph Jay Williams: Director of IAI Group, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto

Sam Maldonado: Research Programmer

Graduate Students

Arghavan Modiri

Master’s Student, working on the design of mobile health intervention systems

Mobile health intervention systems combines human-computer interaction with statistical machine learning to discover how to personalize text messages to people in order to motivate them to do more exercise and improve adherence to physical activity. 

Also, studying contextual Multi-Armed Bandits (MABs) and similar algorithms and their applications in health.

Jacob Nogas

Master’s Student, generally interested in statistics and machine learning applied to HCI.

Working on issues pertaining to statistical inference on data from collected from Multi-Armed Bandit algorithms.

Jaemarie Solyst

Incoming PhD student in fall 2020

Working on computer science education.

Affiliated graduate students

Hammad Shaikh

Fifth-year PhD student in economics

Working on educational projects.

Undergraduate Students

Jai Aggarwal

Fourth-year computer science and cognitive science student

Working on the student stress and DIAMANTE projects.

Ben Prystawski

Third-year computer science and cognitive science student

Working on the personalized explanations project.

Jiading Zhu

Fourth-year engineering science student

Working on a thesis with Joseph on the factorial bandits project.

Yuya Asano

Fourth-year computer science specialist

Working on the personalized explanations and factorial design projects.

Previous lab members or collaborators

Michal Fishkin

Second-year engineering science student

Project manager for the exercise and mental health projects

Zarif Mahmud

Third-year computer science and statistics student

Working on the students on track project and organizing lab meetings

Caroline Figueroa

Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, within the Digital Health Equity And Access Lab (D-HEAL)

Working on the DIAMANTE project

Anne Hsu

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the Queen Mary University of London

Working on the student stress project

Thomas Price

Assistant Prof. of computer science at North Carolina State University

Anna Rafferty

Juho Kim

Bibhas Chakraborty