Scholar
Elena L. Glassman
Google Scholar ID: C_r8d0AAAAAJ
Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,370
H-index
28
i10-index
42
Publications
20
Co-authors
92
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers at top-tier venues including CHI, UIST, DIS, and ICML
- Two CHI'25 papers awarded Best Paper: 'Supporting Co-Adaptive Machine Teaching...' and 'Creative Writers’ Attitudes on Writing as Training Data...'
- Multiple CHI'24 papers received Honorable Mentions, including works on LLM sensemaking and ChainForge
- CHI'24 paper 'DynaVis' received Best Paper Award
- Developed ChainForge (chainforge.ai), an open-source visual toolkit for prompt engineering and LLM hypothesis testing
- Proposed novel interaction techniques like AI-resilient text rendering, with pre-prints and open-source implementations
Background
- Faculty at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University
- Leads The Variation Lab, focusing on augmenting human intelligence with variation
- Research centers on AI-resilient interfaces that help users cope with AI errors, inappropriate outputs, or misaligned suggestions
- Targets open-ended, context- and preference-heavy tasks such as ideation, search, sensemaking, and large-scale reading/writing of text and code
- Derives design principles from cognitive science, even when they contradict conventional usability guidelines
- Cultivates a vibrant, supportive research community including undergraduates, master's students, PhDs, postdocs, and collaborators
