Dhruv Jain
Assistant Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering
Builds human-centered AI for accessibility, including sound-awareness systems that recognize and visualize sounds for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Dhruv Jain's lab at Michigan works on human-AI collaboration & trust and accessibility, health & wellbeing. 27 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. 3 PhD students. 11 alumni, most often to Google. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 30%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 11
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 2
- 6 papers2024 · T1 2
- 5 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST, CSCW, DIS, ICMI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing3 papers
- accessibility3 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust1 paper
- sounds1 paper
- builds human-centered0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- IMWUTIntegrating Temporal Context and Episodic Memory for Real-Time Sound Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- JMIR Rehabil Assist TechnolMedical Caption Technology to Support Physician-Patient Communication (opens in a new tab)
- Otolaryngol Head Neck SurgNoise, Hearing, and Communication in the Operating Room: A Mixed-Methods Study (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Rehearsing Real Routes in VR to Support Independent Navigation with Low-Vision (opens in a new tab)
202511 papers
- ASSETSAdapting Non-Speech Captions with Anchored Generative Models (opens in a new tab)
- ISMIRAdaptive Music Playback for Realtime Intensity Synchronization with Exercise (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Exploring Runtime Generative Tools to Improve Accessibility of Virtual 3D Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- ORL Head & Neck NursingNoise-Related Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Communication in Operating Rooms (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSReal-Time Collaborative ASR Adaptation for DHH Speakers (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSRealtime Accessibility in Virtual Environments (Best demo award) (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSRealtime CART Captions Correction Using LLMs (Best paper honorable mention)
- ASSETSRich Auditory Scene Descriptions to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (opens in a new tab)
- ICMITowards Audio Personalization for Accessible Digital Media (opens in a new tab)
- ISMAR WorkshopTowards Supporting Personalized Authoring of Sound-Reactive AR Interfaces by DHH Users (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Weaving Sound to Support DHH People’s Real-time Sensemaking of Auditory Environments (opens in a new tab)
20246 papers
- CHI (T1)A Human-AI Collaborative Approach to Designing Sound Awareness Systems (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSA VR Sound Modification Toolkit to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Demo of our VR Sound Modification Toolkit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users (opens in a new tab)
- DISExploring Sound Manipulations for Accessible Mixed-Reality Awareness (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSImproving CART Captioning Using LLMs (Best poster award) (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSSound Masking Approaches to Support People with Autism in Managing Noise Sensitivity (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- CACMAn Authonography of multiple disabilities (Invited article) (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSAn Interactive Feedback-Loop System to Improve Sound Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Manipulating Sounds for Accessible Mixed-Reality Awareness (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSReal-World Feasibility of Sound Recognition (Best paper honorable mention) (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Realizing Values in Hybrid Environments: A SIGCHI Perspective (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went11 listed, 20% to industry
Industry 1Academia 4
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Also to
- Georgia Tech
- NYU
- UC San Diego
Apply to MichiganFall 2027
Michigan CSE Computer Science PhD
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