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Benjamin Xie he|they

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford University

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Group and Graduate School of Education. I will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Department of Computer Science in fall 2025. My research interest is in designing critical and equitable human-data interactions for educational and environmental outcomes. I engage with computing education, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics research communities.

I was previously an Embedded Ethics Fellow with Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and McCoy Center for Ethics in Society. I completed my PhD at the University of Washington Information School with Prof. Amy Ko, where I was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and also a research intern at non-profit Code.org. Prior to my PhD, I was an MIT EECS-Google Research and Innovation Scholar as an undergraduate and Master’s student at MIT researching with Prof. Hal Abelson and MIT App Inventor.

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Interests

  • Computing Education
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
  • Participatory Design

Education

  • PhD in Information Science, 2022

    University of Washington

  • MEng in Computer Science, 2016

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • BS in Computer Science, 2015

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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