Researcher, data nerd, programmer, designer, gamer
Currently a PhD student in UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, with a UW MS in HCDE, a Harvard AB in Computer Science and Secondary in Statistics, and 4 years of data engineering experience at Facebook.
Recently, I've been exploring how AI can help people connect on a human level. Specifically, I want to empower everyday people to tell their stories and build connections with technologists to inspire user empathy in human-centered products and services.
Disentangling Threads: Exploring the Potential of LLM-Supported Discussion Forum Analysis for Community Insight
Tony W. Li, Zhiqing Wang, Thanh-Nha Tran, Grace Yu-Chun Yen, and Steven P. Dow
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference, 2026
User-Led Storytelling with Generative AI Artifacts to Promote Empathic Design
Tony W. Li and Steven Dow
EmpathiCH Workshop at ACM CHI, 2026
Designing SocialTrust.md to Enhance Developer Awareness of Risks in Utilizing Open-Source GitHub Repositories
Tony W. Li, Yunpeng Zhao, Yujin Zhang, R. Stuart Geiger, and Haojian Jin
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), 2026
Redesigning Privacy with User Feedback: The Case of Zoom Attendee Attention Tracking
Tony W. Li, Arshia Arya, and Haojian Jin
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
On the Feasibility of Predicting Users' Privacy Concerns using Contextual Labels and Personal Preferences
Yaqing Yang, Tony W. Li, and Haojian Jin
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
Viblio: Introducing Credibility Signals and Citations to Video-Sharing Platforms
Emelia May Hughes, Renee Wang, Prerna Juneja, Tony W. Li, Tanushree Mitra, and Amy X. Zhang
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
[Best Paper Award Winner] Low-Effort, Unqualified, and Malicious User Behaviors in Online Human-Robot Interaction Studies
Tony W. Li*, Yelin Jo*, Zander Brumbaugh, Hanna Lee, Michael Murray, and Elin A. Björling
ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), 2023
Tell Me About It: Adolescent Self-Disclosure with an Online Robot for Mental Health
Tony W. Li, Michael Murray, Zander Brumbaugh, Hanna Lee, Raida Karim, Maya Cakmak, and Elin A. Björling
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023
Understanding Collaborative Practices and Tools of Professional UX Practitioners in Software Organizations
K. J. Kevin Feng, Tony W. Li, and Amy X. Zhang
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
Share with Me: A Study on a Social Robot Collecting Mental Health Data
Raida Karim, Edgar Lopez, Katelynn Oleson, Tony W. Li, Elin A. Björling, and Maya Cakmak
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2022
Approaches to Policy Advice From Multiple Teachers in Reinforcement Learning
Tony W. Li, Ofra Amir, and Barbara Grosz
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, 2017
* denotes equal first-author contribution.
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