Hi 👋, I'm Dora Zhao.

I am a fourth-year CS PhD student at Stanford University, co-advised by Professors Michael Bernstein and Diyi Yang. My research has been supported by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Previously, I was an AI Engineer at Sony AI on the Ethics flagship project. I also worked in the Princeton Visual AI Lab, advised by Professor Olga Russakovsky.

My research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and responsible AI. I am broadly interested in how we design AI systems that prioritize long-term benefits to users through (1) measuring longitudinal effects of interacting with AI systems, and (2) creating new methods or interaction approaches that support deeper user understanding.