Human-AI Integration Lab (HAL)

Misha Sra


John and Eileen Gerngross Assistant Professor, UCSB Computer Science
Courtesy appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, the Media, Art & Tech program, Cognitive Science Program and the interdisciplinary Dynamical Neuroscience Program.
Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Responsible Machine Learning, Center for Aging and Longevity Studies and Mind & Machine Inteligence.
Director of the Human-AI Integration Lab (HAL-UCSB)
Email: sra@ucsb.edu || Orcid || Google Scholar



Shaping the Future of Human-AI Collaboration

As AI evolves into agents and beyond, as XR reshapes our interactive spaces, and the digital and physical worlds converge, our research explores three key questions:

  • How do we design interfaces that make AI's capabilities intuitive, discoverable, and actionable beyond simple text interactions?
  • How can we create seamless human-AI interaction techniques that integrate AI into user workflows?
  • How do advances in human-AI systems transform the way we work, learn, create and connect?
  • How might we design interfaces that enable AI agents to both assist humans interactively, and to autonomously execute delegated tasks?

To explore these questions, we take a design-driven approach to understand, engineer, and evaluate novel human-AI systems.

Visual Summary of Recent Work

LAB MEMBERS



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Misha Sra
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Sherry Chen
PhD candidate, CS

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Yimeng Liu
PhD candidate, CS

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Andrew Huard
PhD candidate, ECE

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Arthur Caetano
PhD candidate, CS

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Avinash Nargund
PhD candidate, ECE

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Zichen Chen
PhD student, CS

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Kojiro Takeyama
Visiting Researcher, Toyota Research

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Asako Soga
Visiting Professor, Ryukoku University, Japan

ALUMS



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Carlos Gilberto
Visiting PhD student, MechE. UNAM, Mexico City

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Giuliana Barrios Dell'Olio
Visiting Master's Student, CS 2020-2021 (now at McKinsey & Company)

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Jake Guida
MS'20, CS (now at Adobe)

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Mengyu Chen
PhD'23, MAT (now at JP Morgan Chase)

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Austin Mac
BS'22, CS (now at Roblox)

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Jungah Son
PhD'23, MAT

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Purav Bhardwaj
Visiting student, NID, India (now at Altassian)

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Atieh Taheri
PhD'24, ECE (now Presidential Fellow at CMU)

APPLY


For Fall 2024, I am actively looking for technical and motivated students who can demonstrate expertise and creativity with prototyping XR, electrical or mechanical systems and have significant prior programming experience, with or without AI. Please use the CS admission process, pick HCI as your area of interest, and include a link to your portfolio of work. Deadline is Dec 2023.

CONTACT


The Human-AI Integration Lab is housed in the Computer Science Department at UCSB located in Phelps 3515.



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