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Krzysztof Gajos

Faculty
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    Krzysztof Gajos

    Contact Information

    Office: Maxwell Dworkin 251
    Email: kgajos [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
    Office Phone: (617) 496-1876
    Office Fax: (617) 496-1066

    Recruitment Status

    Currently accepting graduate students.

    Websites

    Education

    1. B.Sc., Computer Science, MIT
    2. M.Eng., Computer Science, MIT
    3. Ph.D., 2008, Computer Science, University of Washington

    Research Interests

      • Computer Science
      • Artifical Intelligence and Computational Linguistics
      • Human-Computer Interaction
      • Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision
      • Multi-Agent Systems

    Primary Teaching Area

    Computer Science

    Profile

    In July of 2009 Gajos joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in Computer Science. His research interests are in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and applied machine learning.

    The phrase "intelligent interactive systems" describes many of Gajos's interests: understanding how intelligent technologies can enable novel ways of interacting with computation and in the new challenges that human abilities, limitations and preferences create for machine learning algorithms embedded in interactive systems.

    In June 2008, he graduated from University of Washington and subsequently joined the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research for a one year post doc.

    While at the University of Washington, Gajos built SUPPLE for automatically generating personalized user interfaces. A short video illustrates how SUPPLE can generate user interfaces adapted to people's motor and vision abilities.

    In the Fall of 2005, he was visiting faculty at the Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana, where he taught Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

    Before coming to the University of Washington, he spent seven years at MIT where he earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees, and where he also worked for two years as a research scientist managing the operations of the Intelligent Room Project and coordinating some of the activities related to Project Oxygen at the MIT AI Lab (currently part of CSAIL).

    Selected Publications

    1. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Shaun K. Kane, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Susumu Harada, and Jon Froelich. Ability-based design: Concept, principles and examples. ACM Trans. Access. Comput., 2011.
    2. Lahiru G. Jayatilaka, Luca F. Bertuccelli, James Staszewski, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Evaluating a Pattern-Based Visual Support Approach for Humanitarian Landmine Clearance. In CHI '11: Proceeding of the annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM.
    3. Amy Hurst, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Leah Findlater, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew Sears, and Shari Trewin. Dynamic Accessibility: Detecting and Accommodating Differences in Ability and Situation. In CHI '11: CHI '11 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM Press.
    4. Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Understanding How to Design Complex Brain-Controlled Applications. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Brain, Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction at CHI'10, 2010.
    5. Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Daniel S. Weld, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple. Artificial Intelligence, 174:910-950, 2010.
    6. Eric Huang, Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Yiling Chen. Toward Automatic Task Design: A Progress Report. In Proceedings of KDD-HCOMP'10. ACM, 2010.
    7. Lahiru G. Jayatilaka, Luca F. Bertuccelli, James Staszewski, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. PETALS: a visual interface for landmine detection. In Supplementary Proceedings of UIST'10, New York, NY, 2010.
    8. Aaron Spaulding, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Anthony Jameson, Per Ola Kristensson, Andrea Bunt, and Will Haines. Usable intelligent interactive systems: CHI 2009 special interest group meeting. In CHI EA '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 2743-2746, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.
    9. Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Beyond Feature Relevance: Incorporating Rich User Feedback Into Interactive Machine Learning Applications. In Proceedings of ADA-IML'09 Workshop at NIPS'09, 2009.
    10. Leah Findlater and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Design Space and Evaluation Challenges of Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces. AI Magazine, 30(4):68-73, 2009.