Tianshi Li
Assistant Professor
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I’m an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, directing the PEACH (Privacy-Enabling AI and Computer-Human interaction) Lab.
Come and join us if you’re interested in designing and building human-centered solutions for privacy! Read my research statement to learn more about my work on developer support for privacy. I also have new projects studying the emerging privacy issues in human-LLM interactions. Read my recent CHI paper to learn more.
My research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Privacy, with a focus on Human-Centered AI and Privacy. I strive to address the increasing privacy issues in today’s digital world using a blend of human-centered problem understanding and technical problem solving. I conduct mixed-methods research to understand the privacy challenges situated in different stakeholders’ lived experiences, and build systems and conduct computational experiments to measure, model, and tackle these human-centered problems.
News
Jul 17, 2024 | Excited to share our NSF SaTC award on “Empathy-Based Privacy Education and Design through Synthetic Persona Data Generation” ($600K in total, $200K personal share). This grant is in collaboration with Prof. Toby Li (Notre Dame) and Prof. Yaxing Yao (Virginia Tech). |
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Feb 1, 2024 | Our Special Integret Group proposal titled “Human-Centered Privacy Research in the Age of Large Language Models” is accepted at CHI’24! Excited to meet people from diverse backgrounds at CHI! |
Jan 19, 2024 | Two papers accepted at CHI’24! One on how LLMs may invade users’ privacy, and another on how LLMs may empower people to build better multimodal apps! |
Jan 12, 2024 | Our paper on the Matcha IDE plugin is accepted at IMWUT! Try out the tool. |
May 3, 2023 | Job search update: I’ll be joining the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024! Before that, I’ll spend a year in the Bay Area, working at Google Checks on privacy compliance intelligence and at Berkeley as a postdoc. Looking forward to the journey ahead! |
Apr 20, 2023 | Our paper on the COVID-19 contact-tracing app adoption problem won a Best Research Papers 2019-2021 Award at Pervasive and Mobile Computing! |
Feb 20, 2023 | Excited to share my first funded grant from CMU CyLab, titled “Engaging End Users and Developers to Improve App Store Privacy Audits”! |
Dec 16, 2022 | Just passed my dissertation defense. I’m a soon-to-be Ph.D. now! |
Oct 12, 2022 | Matcha is released on the JetBrains plugin store! |
May 1, 2022 | Our paper on C-PAK, a novel mobile text entry technique is accepted to TOCHI 2022. |