Zana Bucinca
Assistant Professor
Designs human-AI interaction techniques, explanations, and systems that support AI-assisted decision making and preserve human skills and agency.
Zana Bucinca's lab at MIT works on human-AI collaboration & trust, interfaces & interaction techniques and reinforcement learning. 7 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly IUI and CHI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 29%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 1 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IUI, CHI, TOCHI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-AI collaboration & trust4 papers
- Reinforcement learning3 papers
- skills1 paper
- Interfaces & interaction techniques0 papers
- interaction techniques0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
- TOCHI (T1)Offline Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Support in AI-Assisted Decision-Making
20252 papers
- CHI (T1)Contrastive Explanations That Anticipate Human Misconceptions Can Improve Human Decision-Making Skills (opens in a new tab)
- IUIPersonalising AI assistance based on overreliance rate in AI-assisted decision making
20243 papers
- IUIAccuracy-Time Tradeoffs in AI-Assisted Decision Making under Time Pressure
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsOptimizing Decision-Maker's Intrinsic Motivation for Effective Human-AI Decision-Making
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsTrust and Reliance in Evolving Human-AI Workflows (TREW)
20231 paper
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsWorkshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams (TRAIT)
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to MITFall 2027
MIT EECS Computer Science PhD
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