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Nur Yildirim

I'm looking for PhD students interested in Human-AI Interaction for Fall 2026. Learn more on my lab's website.

Hi, I'm Nur 👋 I'm an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's School of Data Science. I lead the Human + AI Design Lab, where we strive to make AI useful and usable for people.

I received my Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. I worked at Google's People + AI Research team, and Microsoft Research's Biomedical Imaging team as a research intern. Before academia, I worked as a designer in industry for nearly a decade, shipping 0 → 1 hardware and software products.