Dakuo Wang
Associate Professor
Research interests
- Human–computer interaction
- Human–AI collaboration
- Natural language processing
- Health informatics
- Data science
- Computer-supported cooperative work
Education
- PhD in Informatics, UC Irvine
- MS in Computer and Information Sciences, UC Irvine
- MS in Electrical Engineering, UC Irvine
- BS in Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology — China
Biography
Dakuo Wang is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Wang's research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence, with a focus on exploring, developing, and evaluating human-centered AI systems. He aims to democratize AI for every person and organization so they can access and collaborate with AI systems.
Before joining Northeastern, Wang was a senior staff member at IBM Research, principal investigator at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He has worked as a designer, researcher, and engineer in the US, China, and France; organized committees and editorial boards at numerous venues; served as a prolific ACM Distinguished Speaker; and earned more than 60 patents.
Recent publications
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Vital Insight: Assisting Experts’ Sensemaking Process of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and LLM
Citation: Jiachen Li, Justin Steinberg, Xiwen Li, Akshat Choube, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Varun Mishra . (2024). Vital Insight: Assisting Experts' Sensemaking Process of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and LLM CoRR, abs/2410.14879. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.14879 -
Talk2Care: An LLM-based Voice Assistant for Communication between Healthcare Providers and Older Adults
Citation: Ziqi Yang, Xuhai Xu, Bingsheng Yao, Ethan Rogers, Shao Zhang, Stephen S. Intille, Nawar Shara, Guodong Gordon Gao, Dakuo Wang. (2024). Talk2Care: An LLM-based Voice Assistant for Communication between Healthcare Providers and Older Adults Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 8, 73:1-73:35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3659625
