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My name is Evey. I study human–AI collaboration where the human is part of a team or organization—working with others to tackle complex problems in science, entrepreneurship, and knowledge work domains. I ask how AI can make distributed & tacit expertise usable by teams, reveal how collaboration unfolds, and shape the ideas and judgments that groups produce.
Evey Huang, PhD.
I am a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. I bring methods from HCI, Design, and Computational Social Science to organizational questions, while using advances in AI both to study collective work and to be part of designed systems that change how work happens.
Research
Three connected directions
Making expertise usable
How can AI help collaborators articulate tacit reasoning and make distributed expertise available to one another?
Understanding collaboration
How can multimodal AI help us observe how people integrate knowledge, coordinate, and work together across settings?
AI and collective outcomes
When do useful individual AI contributions strengthen collective work, and when do they narrow ideas and judgments?
A little more about me
Background
I earned my PhD in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint program in Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. My doctoral work grew out of a sustained partnership with an entrepreneurship incubator. I also coached undergraduate engineering students in human-centered design and engineering practices.
Alongside my research, I work on AI design and engineering in industry, including shared workflows for business teams and learning technologies. Outside work, I play guitar and tennis, take film and digital photographs, read, doodle, and cook spicy food. If you are thinking about similar research questions, I would love to connect.
News
Recent updates
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I won my first grant! My project, ‘Building Behavioral Process Models from Real Teams with Multimodal AI,’ received $75,000 from Microsoft’s AI and the New Future of Work program. About the research
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TeamLens, our proposal on using multimodal AI to study team collaboration, was recognized as a finalist in the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge organized by Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind. Meet the finalists
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Attending CSCW 2025 to present my paper: 'AI That Helps Us Help Each Other: A Proactive System for Scaffolding Mentor-Novice Collaboration in Entrepreneurship Coaching'.
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Attending IC2S2 2025 to present our work on applying multimodal AI to decode team interactions for real life-science teams.
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Talked at Northwestern CBIT about proactive human-AI collaboration.
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Presented my work on proactive human-AI collaboration at Microsoft AI & Society research seminar.
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Started as a postdoctoral fellow at NICO with Prof. Brian Uzzi.
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Successfully defended dissertation.