Alice Gao

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CSE Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in WildLab, co-advised by Katharina Reinecke and R.Benjamin Shaprio. I am also very fortunate to have an on-going collaboration with Jason Wu. Broadly, my research focuses on understanding the different uses of digital technologies between users of varying backgrounds and how to build customized tools for them. Currently, my focuses are (1) on creating adaptive and personalized UI interfaces (2) understanding how different value misalignments with LLMs affects collaborative downstream tasks to create more responsible AI.


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Publications

Nino Migineishvili, Alice Gao, Adinawa Adjabodjou, Dhanaraj Thaku, René Just, Katharina Reinecke. Regulating AI: Where U.S. Sate Policy and HCI (Mis)align. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26). Barcelona, Spain. April 2026

Donghoon Shin, Alice Gao, Rock Pang, Katharina Reinecke, Emily Tseng. How Vibe Coding Might Worsen Global Design Homogenization: An Empirical Study of LLM-Driven Website Localization In Submission.

Alice Gao,* Samyukta Jayakumar,* Marcello Maniglia,* Brian Curless, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Aaron R. Seitz and Steven M. Seitz. Don't look at the camera: Achieving perceived eye contact in remote video communication. Journal of Vision 2025;25(11):8, https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.10.1094.

K.J. Kevin Feng*, Alice Gao*, Johanna Suvi Karrass*. Towards Semantically Aware Word Cloud Shape Generation. Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22 Adjunct). Bend, OR. October 2022.