Simret Araya Gebreegziabher
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher

Simret Araya Gebreegziabher

ስምረት አርአያ ገብረእግዚአብሄር

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame advised by Prof. Toby Li. My research centers on Human-AI interaction, with a focus on designing and evaluating tools that foster collaboration between humans and AI in ambiguous or uncertain contexts. I draw on cognitive learning theories to guide this work, aiming to enable more effective human-AI alignment. Grounded in cognitive learning theories, my work explores how to support users in aligning their intentions, preferences and values during model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation processes.

Publications

🏆 CHI ’25 · Best Paper

Supporting Co-Adaptive Machine Teaching through Human Concept Learning and Cognitive Theories

Simret A. Gebreegziabher, Yukun Yang, Elena L. Glassman*, Toby Jia-jun Li*

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · 2025

MetricMate: An Interactive Tool for Generating Evaluation Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow

Simret A. Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Diego Gómez-Zará

CHIWORK · 2025

Leveraging Variation Theory in Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Optimized Active Learning

Simret A. Gebreegziabher, Kuangshi Ai, Zheng Zhang, Elena L. Glassman, Toby Jia-jun Li

ACL Findings · 2025

MOCHA: Model Optimization through Collaborative Human-AI Alignment

Simret A. Gebreegziabher, Elena L. Glassman*, Toby Jia-jun Li*

UIST Demo · 2024

PaTAT: Human-AI Collaborative Qualitative Coding with Explainable Interactive Rule Synthesis

Simret A. Gebreegziabher*, Zheng Zhang*, Xiaohang Tang, Yihao Meng, Elena L. Glassman, Toby Jia-jun Li

CHI · 2023

News


[April 2025] Our CHI25 paper on co-adaptive machine teaching won the best paper award 🎉.

[Aug 2024] I will be at UIST presenting our demo paper MOCHA: Model Optimization through Collaborative Human-AI Alignment 🤓.

[Oct 2023] Finished my internship at Meta Reality Labs.

[May 2023] Started my internship at Meta Reality Labs.

[Feb 2023] Our paper PaTAT: Human-AI Collaborative Qualitative Coding with Explainable Interactive Rule Synthesis got into CHI 🎉 .

[Jan 2022] Started my PhD at the University of Notre Dame.

[Oct 2021] Graduated from Addis Ababa University, Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering with Great distinction.

[Oct 2021] Gave my graduation lecture as a Global Teaching Fellow at Delta Analytics, watch it here!

[Apr 2021] Started as a Global Teaching Fellow at Delta Analytics.

[May 2020] Started working as a research intern at University of Michigan, AURA2020.

[Oct 2019] Organized the 1st AI in Ethiopia Conference, Read about it!