Dr. Dakuo Wang is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, and Principal Investigator at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, based in Cambridge, MA. His research lies in the intersection between human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI). He is now co-leading IBM Research’s human-centered natural language processing (HC-NLP) strategy. In the past couple of years, he has led a team to conduct human-centered research and design user experience for IBM Automation of AI & Data Science strategy. Outside his IBM work, Dakuo is also broadly interested in how humans interact with real-world AI applications (e.g., conversational agents and clinical decision support systems). He argues “the goal of Human-Centered AI systems is to achieve Human-AI Collaboration.”

Before joining IBM Research, Dakuo got his Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine (advisor: Judith Olson and Gary Olson). He has worked as a designer, researcher, and engineer in the U.S., China, and France. He is invited to give multiple talks in universities and organizations globally each year, and ACM has recognized Dakuo Wang as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.