Responsible development, use, and evaluation of AI SYSTEMS

In Fall 2025, I'll be starting an interdisciplinary research and practice lab based at the iSchool at the University of Washington. Our mission is to foster conscious and responsible design, development, use, and evaluation of data science and AI systems that are used by and affect online and in-person communities.

Interested in working together? Reach out to me at belencsf@uw.edu

Guiding research questions

- How can we design Human – AI partnership systems to foster human agency?

- What is the impact of current Gen AI in how we relate to each other as individuals and as communities?

Methods

- Prototype design and evaluation

- Data analysis

- HCI, NLP, DS

- Computational Social Sciences