Duri Long

Duri Long is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University and an affiliated professor in the Department of Computer Science. She leads the Creativity Interfaces Research and Design Lab, focusing on how artificial intelligence impacts human creativity and creative agency, and collaborates with creative practitioners to design human-centered AI systems. Her research spans human-computer interaction, learning sciences, design, collaborative computing, and creativity and computation. Duri earned her Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in learning sciences and technology, as well as a minor in design research. She also holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a secondary major in Dramatic Arts from UNC Chapel Hill. Committed to enhancing the public impact of academic research, she has developed museum exhibitions for thousands of visitors and free educational resources such as the "AI Unplugged" curriculum.

• 2022 – Present·Northwestern University·Assistant Professor
  • Leads the Creativity Interfaces Research and Design Lab, focusing on public applications of artificial intelligence, creative design, and advancing AI literacy.

• 2016 – 2022·Georgia Institute of Technology·Ph.D.
  • Major: Human-Computer Interaction, specialization in learning sciences and technology, with a minor in design research.
• 2012 – 2016·University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill·B.S.
  • Major: Computer Science, secondary major: Dramatic Arts.