Min Kyung Lee

Min Kyung Lee
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
Our Matchmaking with AI paper received the CSCW24 Best Paper Honorable Mention award.
️ I was honored to participate in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) event on Open by Design: Participatory Algorithm for Equity and Inclusion and give a keynote at the MIDAS Ethical AI symposium at the University of Michigan.
We organized a workshop on Human-AI Alignment: Developing a Research Agenda by Bridging Interdisciplinary Approaches at the TAS conference!
Our PhD student, Angie Zhang, ran a co-design workshop as part of the worker training on AI, which was organized by International Labour Organization.
Min Kyung Lee I am an assistant professor in the UT Austin School of Information, and a director of the Human-AI Interaction Lab. I am also core faculty of the campus-wide Ethical AI Program, and affiliated with Machine Learning Lab, Good Systems, and Texas Robotics. Our work is possible thanks to the National Science Foundation, Good Systems, and Swedish Research Council.

I am a human-computer interaction researcher who combines computer science, design, and social science theories and methods. I conducted some of the first studies that empiricially examine the AI's social implications on work, management, and governance. I coined the term Algorithmic Management, and proposed the Procedural Justice Framework for AI to address the misalignment between AI assumptions and stakeholder priorities.

My vision is that Participatory AI, which enables stakeholder participation across the AI development cycle, can better align AI with stakeholder priorities and contribute to creating just, empowering workplaces and cities.

I strive to translate my research into pragmatic systems and processes to make the real-world impact or support organizations that promote equity and social good. Our WeBuildAI participatory algorithm is adopted by Food Rescue Hero; we are conducting research to assist public administration using technology. Some of our current partners include Austin Transportation Department, King County, Washington, Food Rescue Hero, and Dilligent Robotics.

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SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
Our Matchmaking with AI paper received the CSCW24 Best Paper Honorable Mention award.
️ I was honored to participate in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) event on Open by Design: Participatory Algorithm for Equity and Inclusion and give a keynote at the MIDAS Ethical AI symposium at the University of Michigan.
We organized a workshop on Human-AI Alignment: Developing a Research Agenda by Bridging Interdisciplinary Approaches at the TAS conference!
Our PhD student, Angie Zhang, ran a co-design workshop as part of the worker training on AI, which was organized by International Labour Organization.

NEWS
November 2024
Co-organizing ACM CSCW 2024 workshop" Worker Data Collectives as a Means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities
October 2024
Co-organizing the EURAM 2025 paper track on AI, Big Data, Algorithgmic Management and Emerging Tech in Human Resources Management, Employment Relations, and Organizational Behaviours
September 2024
Co-organized a TAS workshop, "Human-AI Alignment: Developing a Research Agenda by Bridging Interdisciplinary Approaches"
July 2024
Honored to serve as a panelist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) event on Open by Design: Participatory Algorithm for Equity and Inclusion
June 2024
Served as a panelist at the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities’s Commission on Information, Measurement, and Analysis Panel: AI Empowered Student Engagement and Success
April 2024
Gave a lecture as William Field Pierson Lecturer at Princeton University
April 2024
Gave a keynote at the MIDAS Ethical AI symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
April 2024
Received the Health IT SPARK grant on AI chatbot for dementia caregivers with hearing/vision impairment
November 2023
Served as a panelist for ACM CSCW panel, "LLMs and the Infrastructure of CSCW"
October 2023
Served as a panelist at (Dis)Trust and AI: Perspectives from Across Disciplines and Sectors
July 2023
Received the Swedish Research Council grant on algorithmic management at work. Excited to explore worker-centered interventions for algorithmic management on a global scale
June 2023
Awarded the NSF SCC grant on community-driven design of urban air mobility transportation management systems
November 2022
Co-organizing an ACM CSCW workshop, “Who Has an Interest in “Public Interest Technology”?: Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments and Impacted Communities”
October 2022
Gave a talk at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden
October 2022
Gave a keynote at the Augmented Intelligence at Work Symposium in Hanover, Germany
October 2022
Excited to NSF DASS funding on enabling standards- and disclosure-based regulations in and through software systems
October 2022
Received NSF CIVIC funding on co-creating a community platform for people experiencing homelessness
September 2022
Gave a keynote at the Image Conference in Austin
July 2022
Gave a talk at IDEA Institute on AI
May 2022
Excited to give a talk at the University of Oxford on Participatory Algorithmic Management
April 2022
Received an ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention award for Remaining gigwork
April 2022
Served as a panelist for ACM CHI’22 panel on Participatory Design of AI systems
April 2022
Honored to give a talk as a Dr. Frederica Darema lecturer in CS at Illinois Institute of Technology
March 2022
Co-organized an ACM HRI 2022 workshop on Fairness and Transparency in HRI
August 2021
Gave an invited talk at the 35th International Workshop on New Technologies and Work (NeTWork): Safety in the Digital Age
August 2021
Excited to receive a NSF NRT-AI Grant for Ethical Robotics
August 2021
Gave a keynote at the International Conference on Women Scientists and Engineers on Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy Technology, and Nano Technology
August 2021
Excited to receive 6-year grants for the Good Systems Projects on Racially Equitable AI and Misinformation
July 2021
Excited to receive a Swedish AFA Insurance grant on Algorithmic Management and Worker Health with Karolinska Institutet
June 2021
Humbled to serve as a ACM FAccT Conference Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair for two years
June 2021
Gave a talk at the KAIST Graduate School of AI Colloquium
March 2021
Gave a talk at the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT)
Jan 2021
A new CHI paper titled Who Is Included in Human Perceptions of AI?: Trust and perceived fairness around healthcare AI and cultural mistrust
November 2020
Gave a talk titled "Centering racial equity in AI fairness" at the UT Austin Good Systems Panel for AI and the Future of Racial Justice.
October 2020
Gave a Data Science seminar talk titled "AI for all: Enabling participatory and procedurally-fair AI" at the Seoul National University
September 2020
Organizing an IUI workshop on XAI for social justice
August 2020
Serving as an Area Chair for ACM FAccT 2021
August 2020
Received a NSF Smart & Connected Communities (SCC) grant on Empowering Gig Workers Through Building A Community-Centered Gig Economy
June 2020
Gave an invited talk at Assured Autonomy Workshop on responsible autonomy
May 2020
Received a NSF RAPID grant on Trust in Public Health Information During a Pandemic
Mar 2020
Gave a AI seminar at UC San Diego on Fair and Participatory AI for all
Jan 2020
Received a NSF Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (FAI) grant on Advancing Fairness in AI with Human-Algorithm Collaborations
Dec 2019
Leading the CHI2020 workshop on Fair & Responsible AI
Dec 2019
Received a UT Healthcare Technology, Communication, & Privacy seed grant
July 2019
Two papers at CSCW 2019:
WeBuildAI: Participatory Framework for Algorithmic Governance and Procedural Justice in Algorithmic Fairness
July 2019
Gave a talk titled "Procedural Justice in Algorithmic Fairness: Transparency, Control and Participation Perspectives" at Simons Institute Workshop on Recent Developments in Research on Fairness
June 2019
WeBuildAi and algorithmic participation received Popular Poster Award at the Mechanism Design for Social Good Workshop
June 2019
Gave a talk on Algorithmic Management for Empowerment at HCI Consortium 2019 on the Futures of Work
June 2019
Presented WeBuildAI at Collective Intelligence
June 2019
HomeMeld Telepresence received Best Demo Award
May 2019
Received a new grant from Block Center for Technology and Society for my project on fair AI and community participation
April 2019
Paper on statistical foundation of virtual democracy accepted to ICML 2019
February 2019
Co-editing Special Issue on Unifying HCI and AI for HCI Journal
January 2019
Giving guest lecture titled Social Considerations for Algorithmic Fairness for the Interpretable Machine Learning class
January 2019
Giving a talk at Stanford Seminar on Computers, People and Design
November 2018
Giving guest lecture titled Algorithmic Management for the AI for Public Policy class
November 2018
Co-organizing Participation in Algorithmic Ecosystems Workshop at CSCW
July 2018
Attending the CSST Decennial Sociotech Futures Symposium
May 2018
Serving as CHI 2019 Program Committee Associate Chair
May 2018
Giving guest lecture titled Methods for Studying Human-AI Interaction for the Integrated Intelligence in Robotics
April 2018
Giving guest lecture titled Design of Future Robotic Services for the Programming Usable Interfaces class
January 2018
Delighted that our project on a fair algorithm is selected as one of two recipients of the Uptake Machine Learning for Social Good Funding
December 2017
My paper on perceptions of algorithmic decisions accepted to Big Data & Society
December 2017
Presented at a NSF Workshop on Trustworthy Algorithmic Decision-Making
December 2017
Visiting Microsoft Research NYC to give a seminar talk
October 2017
Became editorial board for ACM Transactions of Human-Robot Interaction as Associate Editor
May 2017
Serving as CHI 2018 Program Committee Associate Chair
April 2017
Giving guest lecture titled "Designing Fair Algorithmic Services" for the Designing Environments for Interaction class
April 2017
Invited to speak at Psychology of Technology Conference
March 2017
Serving as CHI 2017 Telepresence Chair with Carman Neustaedter
Febraury 2017
Received CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention for algorithmic mediation & fair division algorithms
December 2016
Paper on fair algorithmic services accepted to CHI 2017
November 2016
Virtually attended the HRI 2017 Program Committee meeting
September 2016
Excited about my new NSF funding on a smart community service for the homeless population
June 2016
Presented my work on algorithmic management of Uber/Lyft drivers at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference
April 2016
Gave a seminar at UC Berkeley School of Information, video recorded here
March 2016
My fieldwork with Snackbot featured in MIT Technology Review
January 2016
Excited to be on the CHI panel on Algorithmic Authority