Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science
Email apavel@cs.utexas.edu
Office GDC 3.704
Twitter @amypavel
Publications Google Scholar
Curriculum Vitae PDF
People
Ph.D. Students: Mina Huh, Karim Benharrak, Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu, Meng Chen, Yi-Hao Peng (co-advised with Jeffrey P. Bigham)
Masters and Undergraduates: Aadit Barua, Akhil Iyer, Katie Clark, Sumaya Al-Bedaiwi, Ujjaini Das, Jerry He, Sarah Zheng
Recent Alumni: Doeun Lee, Pranav Venkatesh, Tess Van Daele, Yuning Zhang, Daniel Killough, Jalyn Derry, Aochen Jiao, Soumili Kole, Chitrank Gupta
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Before I joined UT in 2022, I was a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University (supervised by Jeff Bigham) and a Research Scientist at Apple. I received my PhD from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, advised by professors Björn Hartmann at UC Berkeley and Maneesh Agrawala at Stanford.
I regularly teach a Computer Science class covers the design and development of user interfaces (Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction). Prior versions of this class include CS160 at UC Berkeley in Summer 2018 and CS378 at UT Austin in Spring 2022.
As a systems researcher in Human-Computer Interaction and Accessibility, I embed machine learning technologies (e.g., Natural Language Processing) into new human interactions that I then deploy to test. Using my systems, remote content creators more effectively collaborate, video authors efficiently create accessible descriptions for blind users, and instructors help students to learn and retain key points. To inform future systems that capture what is important to domain experts and people with disabilities, I also conduct and collaborate on in-depth qualitative (e.g., AAC communication, memes) and quantitative studies (e.g., 360° Video, VR Saliency). My research goal is to make communication effective and accessible.
Mina Huh, Fangyuan Xu, Yi-Hao Peng, Chongyan Chen, Hansika Murugu, Danna Gurari, Eunsol Choi, Amy Pavel
COLM 2024
Laura South, Caglar Yildirim, Amy Pavel, Michelle A. Borkin
ASSETS 2024
Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu, Amy Pavel
ASSETS 2024
Yi-Hao Peng, Faria Huq, Yue Jiang, Jason Wu, Amanda Xin Yue Li, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
ECCV 2024
Tess Van Daele, Akhil Iyer, Yuning Zhang, Jalyn Derry, Mina Huh, Amy Pavel
CHI 2024
Haitao Yang, Bo Sun, Liyan Chen, Amy Pavel, Qixing Huang
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023
Xingyu Liu, Ruolin Wang, Dingzeyu Li, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Amy Pavel
UIST 2022
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Yasmine Kotturi, Herman T Johnson, Michael Skirpan, Sarah E Fox, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
CHI 2022
Candace Williams, Lilian de Greef, Ed Harris III, Amy Pavel, Cynthia L. Bennett
W4A 2022
Yi-Hao Peng, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
ASSETS 2021
Yi-Hao Peng, JiWoong Jang, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
CHI 2021
Amy Pavel, Gabriel Reyes, Jeffrey P. Bigham
UIST 2020
Jaylin Herskovitz, Jason Wu, Samuel White, Amy Pavel, Gabriel Reyes, Anhong Guo, Jeffrey P. Bigham
ASSETS 2020
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Himalini Gururaj, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham
ASSETS 2020
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Emma McCamey, Christina Low, Patrick Carrington, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham
CHI 2020
Stephanie Valencia, Amy Pavel, Jared Santa Maria, Seunga (Gloria) Yu, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni
CHI 2020
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia Chilton, Jeffrey P. Bigham
ASSETS 2019
Amy Pavel, Dan B Goldman, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
UIST 2016
Kurt Luther, Jari-lee Tolentino, Wei Wu, Amy Pavel, Brian P Bailey, Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Steven Dow
CSCW 2015
Amy Pavel
PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Advisors: Bjoern Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala
Additional committee members: Eric Paulos, Abigail De Kosnik
Amy Pavel, Floraine Berthouzoz, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
UC Berkeley Technical Report, EECS-2013-167
Laura South, Caglar Yildirim, Amy Pavel, Michelle A. Borkin
CHI 2023 (Extended Abstract)
Kundan Krishna, Amy Pavel, Benjamin Schloss, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Zachary Lipton
W3PHIAI 2020 Workshop Paper
Kurt Luther, Amy Pavel, Wei Wu, Jari-lee Tolentino, Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Steven Dow
CSCW 2014
Assistant Professor — University of Texas at Austin
Department of Computer Science
January 2022 —
Research Scientist (50% time) — Apple Inc
AI/ML
Machine Intelligence Accessibility Group
July 2019 — January 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow (50% time) — Carnegie Mellon University
HCII
Supervised by Professor Jeffrey P. Bigham
January 2019 — October 2021
Graduate Researcher — UC Berkeley
Visual Computing Lab
Advised by Professors Björn Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala
September 2013 — January 2019
Research Intern — Adobe
Creative Technologies Lab
Advised by Principal Scientist Dan Goldman
Summer 2014, Summer 2015
Undergraduate Researcher — UC Berkeley
BiD Lab, Visual Computing Lab
Advised by Professors Björn Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala
June 2011 — September 2013
Instructor — UT Austin
CS 395T: Human-Computer Interaction Research
Fall 2024
Instructor — UT Austin
CS 378: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
Spring 2024
Instructor — UT Austin
CS 395T: Human-Computer Interaction Research
Fall 2023
Instructor — UT Austin
CS 378: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
Spring 2023
Graduate student instructor — UC Berkeley
CS 160: User interface design and development
Summer 2017
Teacher — UC Berkeley
Berkeley Engineers and Mentors
2009 - 2010