Grace Li

Bio

Hi! I'm Grace, a second-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Chicago advised by Professor Mina Lee. My research is in student-AI interaction with a focus on designing and evaluating AI literacy interventions for both students and educators.

My research focuses on designing and evaluating real-world AI-literacy interventions that help students critically engage with large language models (LLMs). I have built interactive platforms that log fine-grained user behavior can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of AI literacy lessons on both student knowledge and behaviors. I developed and taught a comprehensive AI literacy course focused on LLM literacy across technical, socio-ethical, and career development dimensions. I have also established research-practice-partnership with City Colleges of Chicago to bring AI literacy to community college educators.

Before joining UChicago, I did my undergrad at Barnard College, double majoring in Computer Science and English with a concentration in Creative Writing. I earned English Departmental Honors and the Theodore R. Bashkow Undergraduate Research Award in Computer Science. I was fortunate to be advised by Jhumpa Lahiri, for my Creative Writing Thesis. Throughout my undergraduate career, I did research with Professor Lydia Chilton on Human-AI co-writing tools to support science communication and with Professor Smaranda Muresan on using explanation dialogues to improve science explanations.

If you are a current undergraduate or masters student at UChicago, interested in working with me, please email me with your a resume and cover letter.

News

• [Jan 2026] Accepted as a Student Volunteer at CHI 2026 in Barcelona!
• [Jan 2026] Invited Panelist at the Symposium on Responsible AI in the Liberal Arts at Barnard College.
• [Dec 2025] Co-organizing a CHI workshop titled "Understanding and Engaging Critical Resistance to AI in Education"
• [October 2025] "3-Week High School LLM Literacy Course: Syllabus, Projects, and Activities" was accepted to NeurIPS Education Materials 2025
• [October 2025] Presented on Panel at Connecticut College's AI in the Liberal Arts Symposium alongside Barnard faculty, staff, and students: Benjamin Breyer, Marko Krkeljas, Fatima Koli, and Mouaouia Rayhana.
• [August 2025] Participated in the ICER Doctoral Consortium and presented a poster in Charlottesville, VA.
• [July 2025] Presented a poster at the MIT AI & Education Summit.
• [June 2025] Finished teaching an AI literacy course to high school students through the UChicago PreCollege Program
• [February 2025] Presented my research on AI literacy and student-AI interaction at UChicago's People and Technology Seminar.
• [March 2025] Attended SIGCSE TS in Pittsburg, PA!
• [February 2025] Started serving as Graduate Student Rep for the UChicago Committe on Education
• [September 2024] Accepted to the UChicago Committee on Education as the first Computer Science fellow.

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
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Teaching

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