Research

Dr. Wu's research interests:

• Human-computer interaction 

• Human-AI/Robotics interaction

• Health Informatics and Health IT 

• Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)

• Conversational user interface design

• Behavioral information systems security

• Learning sciences

Dr. Wu's human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence research lab, HI3 Tech Lab,  focuses on human-centered, intelligent, interdisciplinary, and interactive technology design and evaluation, & big data and informatics research, especially in healthcare field using social media and electronic health records (EHR) data.  She engages and supervises a group of outstanding students and scholars including undergraduate, Master's and doctoral students in computer science, informatics, statistics, public health, medicine, pharmacy, and visual communication. Her projects had been or are been generously sponsored by multiple external and internal agencies including NIH, NSF, HRSA, ACS, Prisma Health, USC's VP for Research Office, BDHSC, ACORN Research Center, IRED, and IFS etc. 

Current research project demo:

• Mixed Reality/Virtual Reality Robotic Arm Project  

For students who are interested in working on research projects  with my research team: 

We welcome highly self-motivated, reliable,  and technically capable students/scholars with solid software development experiences, machine learning/deep learning, natural language processing, and statistics backgrounds and with strong work ethic. Doctoral students with research experiences and publications would be preferred. If  interested, please email your CV,  transcripts, and three references to Dr. Wu (dezhiwu@cec.s.edu) to be considered.   

If you are a doctoral student in Informatics or Computer Science or another technical domain at USC, I normally consider students who are my current advisees, and have been actively working on a research project under my supervision either through a graduate  independent research course or  a research intern or as a student volunteer. If you are not a student whom I have known, the main selection criteria are excellent academic records, research ability to tackle complicated problems, and high proficiency level of various technical skills with strong self-motivation, curiosity,  commitment, and research passion. If you believe, you are a good fit, please email me your CV, transcripts, three references and research statement, along with publications if any. 

NOTE: We  currently don't have a research assistant position open in HI3 Tech Lab until further notice.