Jie Gao (高洁)

I am currently a Malone Postdoc Fellow in Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare & Department of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, starting March 2025. I am mentored by an interdisciplinary team of NLP and HCI, including Mark Dredze, Ziang Xiao, and Chien-Ming Huang. My research interests include Human-AI Collaboration, AI for Social Science and AI for Software Engineering. More specifically, my research focuses on building, theorizing and evaluating AI innovative software/tools, particularly in qualitative analysis area.

I am on academic job market for a tenure-track position beginning in 2026. Please reach out if you know any opportunities!

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2025.11 I will be attending EMNLP2025 in Suzhou, China, this year. Please say hi if you are around!

2025.10 I will be attending VL/HCC 2025 conference in North Carolina. Please say hi if you are around!

2025.05 🚀 I attended CHI 2025 conference in Japan, and met a lot of old and new friends!

Recent Works

I explored a few new topics last year, including 1) MindCoder, 2) the full extension of Human-LLM interaction modes, and 3) CodeMap, a tool designed for code understanding. Most excitedly, MindCoder is a funtional tool that supports automated qualitative coding within 3–5 minutes. You can access it via mindcoder.ai.

MindCoder: Automated and Controllable Reasoning Chain in Qualitative Analysis

MindCoder: Automated and Controllable Reasoning Chain in Qualitative Analysis

Jie Gao, Zhiyao Shu, Shunyi Yeo

Preprint Website Video
Chain of Understanding: Supporting Code Understanding with Large Language Models

Chain of Understanding: Supporting Code Understanding with Large Language Models

Jie Gao, Yue Xue, Xiaofei Xie, SoeMin Thant, Erika Lee

Preprint

Featured Publications

*Co-first author.

To simplify reading, I only list my main contributions. For a full list, please visit Google Scholar !


📚 Theorizing the development of innovative software and tools:

A Taxonomy for Human-LLM Interaction Modes: An Initial Exploration

A Taxonomy for Human-LLM Interaction Modes: An Initial Exploration

Jie Gao*, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher*, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Simon Tangi Perrault, Thomas W. Malone

CHI LBW 2024 Human-LLM Interaction Paper

🌟 Building novel software for AI-assisted (LLM-powered) qualitative data analysis, writing and online reflection:

If you're interested in the development of this line of research, I suggest reviewing the development history of CollabCoder. To gain a full understanding of why I started working on this topic since 2021, I invite you to check the Section 2: Choice of Research Topic of my PhD thesis.

[Workshop] LLMs as Research Tools: Applications and Evaluations in HCI Data Work

[Workshop] LLMs as Research Tools: Applications and Evaluations in HCI Data Work

Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Hope Schroeder, Casey Randazzo, Jie Gao, Ziv Epstein, Simon Perrault, David Mimno, Louise Barkhuus, Hanlin Li

CHI 2024 LLM+Social Science Paper Website
CollabCoder: A Lower-barrier, Rigorous Workflow for Inductive Collaborative Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models

CollabCoder: A Lower-barrier, Rigorous Workflow for Inductive Collaborative Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models

Jie Gao, Yuchen Guo, Gionnieve Lim, Tianqin Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Simon Tangi Perrault.

CHI 2024 LLM+Social Science Paper Website Video Code
CoAIcoder: Examining the Effectiveness of AI-assisted Human-to-Human Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis.

CoAIcoder: Examining the Effectiveness of AI-assisted Human-to-Human Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis.

Jie Gao, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Junming Cao, Roy Ka Wei Lee, Simon Perrault.

TOCHI 2023 AI4SocialScience Paper

I am thrilled to be part of my colleagues' LLM projects and have gained valuable insights from our collaboration!

VISAR: A Human-AI Argumentative Writing Assistant with Visual Programming and Rapid Draft Prototyping.

VISAR: A Human-AI Argumentative Writing Assistant with Visual Programming and Rapid Draft Prototyping.

Zheng Zhang, Jie Gao, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Toby Jia-Jun Li.

UIST 2023 LLM+Writing Paper Website Video Code
Help Me Reflect: Leveraging Self-Reflection Interface Nudges to Enhance Deliberativeness on Online Deliberation Platforms

Help Me Reflect: Leveraging Self-Reflection Interface Nudges to Enhance Deliberativeness on Online Deliberation Platforms

Shun Yi Yeo, Gionnieve Lim, Jie Gao, Weiyu Zhang, Simon Tangi Perrault

CHI 2024 Paper