Rui Zhang

Rui is a Research Associate in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, who focuses on the development of efficient AI teammates in education. She is interested in creating interactive student-AI teaming environments with high transparency and high trust, as well as exploring how to equip students with individual and team trainings to better collaborate with AI agents.

Rui received her Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing with a focus on human-AI collaboration from Clemson University, where she studied AI ethics and AI communication in human-AI teams. Her dissertation investigated how AI's communication should be structured and designed to achieve smooth collaboration in virtual human-AI teaming environments.