Michelle Zhou Email & Phone Number

I am passionate about enabling the best human-AI teaming and ultimately creating human-machine symbiosis, where everyone will have their own Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent or companion, who can truly understand each of us as a unique individual and help us in our personal and professional life. Toward this goal, I love to work with individuals and teams who share the same passion to develop and democratize human-centered AI technologies so *anyone* can create and manage empathetic and responsible AI beings to help themselves help others. While the recent advances in generative AI like ChatGPT have demonstrated amazing NLU and NLG capabilities, my focus is on augmenting such capabilities to power AI agents with advanced human soft skills, such as interactional intelligence (the abilities to handle nuanced personal interactions), personal intelligence (the abilities to read people including their personality), and a sense of purpose (e.g., aiding difficult decision making) to automate high-touch services and deliver deeply personalized, interactive experiences. Moreover, I am interested in developing AI agent tools that combine generative AI with task-driven and knowledge-rich AI agent framework to democratize and accelerate the development and customization of practical and interactive AI agents. If you are interested in collaborating with us on "using AI to generate AI", feel free to reach out! Speaker bio for conference events/media:Dr. Michelle Zhou is a Co-founder and CEO of Juji, Inc., a California-based company that powers Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistants in the form of chatbots. She is an expert in the field of Human-Centered AI, an interdisciplinary area that intersects AI and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Zhou has authored more than 100 scientific publications and 45 patent applications on subjects including conversational AI, personality analytics, and interactive visual analytics of big data. Earlier in her career, she spent 15 years at IBM Research and the IBM Watson Group, where she managed the research and development of Human-Centered AI technologies and solutions, including IBM Watson Personality Insights. Zhou serves as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) and an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), and was formerly the Steering Committee Chair for the ACM International Conference Series on Intelligent User Interfaces. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is an ACM Distinguished Member.

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