Mina Lee

Mina Lee is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago, where she leads the AI & Me group. She studies how AI affects writing, reading, and thinking, with interests in writing tools, human-AI collaboration, and AI's effects on cognition and social behavior. Her work combines system design, user studies, and experiments to examine the benefits, limitations, and tradeoffs of these tools. Source: faculty profile

• 2024–Present·University of Chicago·Assistant Professor
• 2023–2024·Microsoft Research·Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Social Science group

Employment dates follow the public CV, page 1 and the University of Chicago Library profile; the faculty profile confirms her current position.

• 2017–2023·Stanford University·Ph.D. in Computer Science; advisor: Percy Liang
• 2012–2016·Korea University·B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Source: public CV, page 1.

• CoAuthor (CHI 2022): A dataset for studying collaborative writing between people and language models, including records of the writing interactions. Project website
• Writing Assistants Design Space (CHI 2024): An interactive resource organizing writing-assistant design choices across task, user, technology, interaction, and ecosystem. Project website
• AI-assisted writing and hiring evaluations (CHI 2026): Work with Alicia Liu and Xuechunzi Bai examining how AI writing assistance affects gender bias in hiring evaluations. University research coverage

• 2025: KOCSEA Young Faculty Award. Awarding organization's list
• 2022: MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 Korea; CHI Honorable Mention for CoAuthor. Faculty profile, personal website

As checked on 2026-09-23, her contact page states that she is not recruiting Ph.D. students for 2026–2027 and offers public online office hours for academic and career conversations. Recruitment policies and appointment availability may change; consult the contact page for current information.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-23. Sources include the personal website, public CV, University of Chicago faculty and career profiles, and the project and award pages linked above. Social links are confirmed by the personal website; the LinkedIn profile's career details could not be read publicly.