I am on the job market for tenure-track faculty & postdoc positions for fall'25! Open to relocate within the US. Check out my CV and contact me!

Peizhu "Pam" Qian

Hello!

I am a (happy!) sixth-year Ph.D. student in computer science at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

I work with Dr. Vaibhav Unhelkar on problems related to human-robot interaction (HRI), AI transparency, and explainable AI (XAI) systems.

Updates

Jul 2024: Our paper PPS: Personalized Policy Summarization has been accepted to AIES'24!
Jun 2024: Presented my thesis at the Doctoral Symposium at Conference and Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) in NYC!
May 2024: I had a wonderful semester teaching COMP 182! Instructor & course evaluations available in my CV.
Mar 2024: Presented my paper at HRI'24 in Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 2024: Presented our paper at AAAI'24!
Dec 2023: Our paper on personalized XAI has been accepted to AAAI'24! See you in Vancouver, Canada! (You can find the pdf in my project page.)
Nov 2023: I am teaching COMP 182 Algorithmic Thinking at Rice University in spring 2024. It covers Discrete Math and Algorithms.
Nov 2023: A review paper I co-authored on human-centered XAI has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), impact factor: 24. Check out the arXiv preprint here.
May 2023: I am taking COMP 691 Pedagogy for Computer Science in summer 2023 as I dream to become a CS professor after my Ph.D.!
Feb 2023: I am organizing the second Texas Regional Robotics Symposium (TEROS) on April 14, 2023 at Rice University: https://teros-texas.github.io/
Mar 2023: I am giving a talk on opportunities for robots in nursing at the AAAI Spring Symposium, SF, CA, March 27-29, 2023.