Huili Chen is an interdisciplinary researcher, scientist, and designer. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, where her research explores human experience in the context of intelligent machines. Her work integrates theories and methods from computer science, human behavior and cognition, and philosophy.

Her work appeared in the world’s leading academic journals, including Science Robotics and Computers & Education, as well as top international conferences in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, including ACM CHI and ACM/IEEE HRI.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Chen was a Presidential Research Fellow (2024-2025) at Princeton University, focusing on the theoretical development and empirical testing of human and artificial minds. She also held fellowships at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center (2023-2024) and Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (2023-2024). As an AI Fellow, she worked for the United Nations Global Pulse, the Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab, in the summer of 2019. She earned her PhD and MS in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, and a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Affiliations:

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information