Hello, I'm Jessica

...sometimes I go by my Chinese name, Yi Fei (亦非)!

I am a 2nd year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto in the Computational Social Science Lab working with Ashton Anderson, and a Student Researcher with Google AR. My research centers around human-AI interactions, exploring themes around transparency, reliance, and decision making with Generative AI. I am also a Graduate Fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute and an Affliate Researcher at the Vector Institute.

I did my MSc at ETH Zurich and my BASc at the University of British Columbia, both in Mechanical Engineering. My research experiences include MIT with Giovanni Traverso in ML for Healthcare, National University of Singapore with Brian Lim in Explainable AI, EPFL with Amir Zamir in Embodied Perception, and UBC with Mike Van der Loos in Human-Robot Interactions. I co-founded Attentiv Medical, a sensor-embedded IV catheter that won a National James Dyson Award. I also dabbled in SWE and did internships at Coursera, Amazon, and Blackberry QNX.

Please reach out if you think we can collaborate or share ideas :)

Updates

  • 2025/05 - "To Rely or Not to Rely?", our paper on appropriate reliance interventions for LLMs, received Honourable Mention at CHI 2025 :)
  • 2024/10 - In Pittsburgh for UIST and AAAI HCOMP (presenting our recent paper on LLM Disclosures & Disclaimers)!
  • 2024/06 - I'll be joining the Schwartz Reisman Institute as a Graduate Fellow!
  • 2024/06 - Received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship
  • 2024/01 - Incremental XAI from my internship at NUS is accepted to CHI 2024
  • 2023/09 - Started PhD at University of Toronto!