Huili Chen

Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University

Huili Chen is a cross-disciplinary researcher, scientist, and designer, holding a Ph.D.in media arts & sciences from MIT Media Lab. She is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University (2024-2025). She was a 2023-2024 Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Huili’s research is at the intersection of human-computer interaction, cognitive science, and human-centered AI, integrating theories and methods from computer science, psychology, and design. At Princeton, she works on building the theoretical development and empirical testing of studying human and artificial minds.

She has received best paper awards and nominations at ACM HRI and ICMI conferences, and her research has been featured in MIT News, Asparagus Magazine, and the CODAME Art + Tech Festival. Huili has been awarded Forbes China’s 30 Under 30, the Learning Innovation Fellowship at the MIT Media Lab, among other global accolades.