We are always looking for motivated researchers to join our group at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Specifically, we work on human-centered AI, agentic systems, intelligent interfaces, and NLP with a focus on research support tools. 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: Human-Agent collaboration in shared workspaces with bidirectional attention awareness.
- Hita Kambhamettu, University of Pennsylvania
- In progress: Literature-driven research ideation groudning and reframing support.
- Nishant Balepur, University of Maryland
- Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users. ACL 2026 (main).
- In progress: extension of the above.
- Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, University of Washington
- In progress: Scientific document QA with figures - benchmarking & accessibility.
- Xinran Zhao, Carnegie Mellon
2024
- Kevin Feng, University of Washington
- Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents. 🏆 CHI 2026 Best Paper.
- 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.