Xiang Anthony Chen
Associate Professor
Builds interfaces that let domain users understand and control AI, such as structured prompting tools for language models.
Xiang Anthony Chen's lab at UCLA works on interfaces & interaction techniques and large language models. 16 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly CSCW and Findings of NAACL. 2 PhD students and 3 master's students. 19 alumni, most often to Adobe and Amazon. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
- 2
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 19
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 0
- 5 papers2024 · T1 0
- 4 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CSCW, Findings of NAACL, IJHCS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Interfaces & interaction techniques3 papers
- Large language models2 papers
- structured1 paper
- let0 papers
- users0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.Behavioral Indicators of Overreliance During Interaction with Conversational Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)OOPrompt: Reifying Intents into Structured Artifacts for Modular and Iterative Prompting (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- In Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 45, 1-20.CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 624-640.Empowering Medical Data Labeling for Non-Experts with DANNY: Enhancing Accuracy and Mitigating Over-Reliance on AI (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of NAACLGraPPI: A Retrieve-Divide-Solve GraphRAG Framework for Large-scale Protein-protein Interaction Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 184, 1-19.Proactive Conversational Agents with Inner Thoughts (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1179-1196.The GenUI Study: Exploring the Design of Generative UI Tools to Support UX Practitioners and Beyond (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- —Enhancing Mitosis Count Assessment in Meningiomas with Computational Digital Pathology (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 74-87.From Text to Pixels: Enhancing User Understanding through Text-to-Image Model Explanations (opens in a new tab)
- In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24).HCI Papers Cite HCI Papers, Increasingly So (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 965, 1-18.Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSMajority Voting of Doctors Improves Appropriateness of AI Reliance in Pathology (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 349, 1-19.Augmenting Pathologists with NaviPath: Design and Evaluation of a Human-AI Collaborative Navigation System (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 19, 1-15.GANravel: User-Driven Direction Disentanglement in Generative Adversarial Networks (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. Just Accepted (July ).Marvista: Exploring the Design of a Human-AI Collaborative News Reading Tool (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 108, 1-20.Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went19 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 3Academia 3
Most often to
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Qualcomm
Also to
- Boston College
- Georgia Tech
Apply to UCLAFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
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