Mara Ulloa HCI Researcher

/ MAHR-ah - OOh - YO-ah /

I am a U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Researcher, and PhD Candidate in the department of Computer Science (CS) at Northwestern University (NU).

I specialize in using Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods to design, engineer, and evaluate human-centered artificial intelligence (AI).

I have worked with Microsoft on generative AI (GenAI) for Software Development; Northwestern University on machine learning (ML) for healthcare; The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research on user experience (UX) for data visualization software.

In my interdisciplinary doctoral research, I develop and apply participatory design methods to co-design ML across varied health contexts. My work is advised by Maia L. Jacobs in the Personalized & Adaptive Technology for Health (NU-PATH) lab.

Research interests/experience: Human-Computer Interaction; artificial intelligence/machine learning/GenAI + design; UX; digital interventions; behavioral science, participatory design methods; future of work; software engineering; applied research.

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