We are always looking for motivated researchers to join our group at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Specifically, we work at the intersection of AI and HCI, and focus on research support tools and methods. If you're excited about this space, I'd love to hear from you.
Research Internships
I host research interns every summer (and occasionally at other times of the year). Interns work closely with me and a small group of co-mentors on a focused research project, typically resulting in a publication at a top venue.
If you are interested in working with me specifically, please apply through the link below and send me a personal email. Our team reviews candidates on an annual cycle, and I typically only begin responding to emails during that period.
Apply for Summer 2026 Internship
Past Mentorships
I am probably missing quite a few people. If you think I am missing your name below, please let me know :-)
2025
- Peiling Jiang, UC San Diego
- In progress: Literature sensemaking workspace with multiagents.
- Hita Kambhamettu, University of Pennsylvania
- In progress: Literature-based fluid research ideation.
- Nishant Balepur, University of Maryland
- In progress: Personalized deep research systems.
2024
- Kevin Feng, University of Washington
- Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents. CHI 2026.
- Kevin Pu, University of Toronto
- IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets with Literature-Grounded Feedback. CHI 2025.
- Zhehui Liao, University of Washington
- LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions. COLM 2025.
2023
- Yoonjoo Lee, KAIST
- PaperWeaver: Enriching Topical Paper Alerts by Contextualizing Recommended Papers with User-collected Papers. CHI 2024.
- ArxivDIGESTables: Synthesizing Scientific Literature into Tables using Language Models . EMNLP 2024.
- Ruotong Wang, University of Washington
- Social-RAG: Retrieving from Group Interactions to Socially Ground AI Generation. CHI 2025.
- Raymond Fok, University of Washington
- Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Dynamic Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers. UIST 2023.
2022
- Srishti Palani, UC San Diego
- Relatedly: Scaffolding Literature Reviews with Existing Related Work Sections. CHI 2023.
- Tae Soo Kim, KAIST
- Papeos: Augmenting Research Papers with Talk Videos. UIST 2023.
- Nouran Soliman, MIT
- Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication. CHI 2024 Best Paper.