Katelyn Xiaoying Mei
Ph.D. Student
University of Washington
I'm a third-year PhD student in Information Science at the University of Washington. I'm fortunate to be advised by Lucy Lu Wang and Katharina Reinecke. I'm also very grateful to be mentored by Allison Koenecke and Mona Sloane . Before my PhD, I spent four amazing years at Middlebury College from which I obtained my Bachelor's of Art in Psychology and Mathematics.
My research interests derive from the intersection of psychology, humanties, and data science. My projects focus on human thinking and decision-making in the age of generative AI, including 1) how individuals are impacted by AI systems, 2) what are the psychological factors underlying our engagement with AI systems, and 3) what can (cannot) facilitate effective Human-AI collaboration.
News
April 2025
New position paper on critical thinking in the era of GenAI is accepted to CHI 2025 workshop!
Paper is included in publications below.
March 2025
New article on AI hallucination published in the Conversation
Check out my latest article on AI hallucination and its implications for society.
Education
University of Washington
Ph.D. in Information Science
Advisor: Prof. Lucy Lu Wang and Prof. Katharina Reinecke
Middlebury College
B.A. in Psychology and Mathematics
Publications
ACM Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning (CHI) 2025
Designing AI Systems that Augment Human Performed vs. Demonstrated Critical Thinking
Katelyn X. Mei, Nic Weber
Proposes new definitions for evaluating the impact of GenAI on human critical thinking and systems design.
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2024
Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms
Allison Koenecke, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Katelyn X. Mei, Hilke Schellmann, Mona Sloane
Hallucination in speech-to-text output in OpenAI Whisper.