About

Hi! I'm a fifth-year PhD Candidate at Harvard, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Professor Krzysztof Gajos.

My research interests lie primarily at the intersection of AI and HCI. I design, build, and evaluate AI-powered systems for decision-making support. I am also enthusiastic about Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in machine learning and AI for Social Good.

I spent two wonderful summers interning at Microsoft Research, where I was hosted by Dr. Saleema Amershi & Dr. Alexandra Olteanu in 2021 and Dr. Jennifer Wortman Vaughan & Dr. Alexandra Chouldechova in 2022.

My research is currently supported by an IBM fellowship.

Prior to joining the Intelligent Interactive Systems group at Harvard as a PhD student, I was a member of the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab and the Multimedia, Vision & Graphics Lab at Koc University in Turkey, from where I obtained my master's degree in 2019. I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology in 2016.

Originally, I come from the capital city of a small country in southeastern Europe - Prishtina, Kosovo.

Publications

Accuracy-Time Tradeoffs in AI-Assisted Decision Making under Time Pressure

Siddharth Swaroop, Zana Buçinca, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Finale Doshi-Velez

IUI '24, 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM, 2024

Towards Optimizing Human-Centric Objectives in AI-Assisted Decision-Making With Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zana Buçinca, Siddharth Swaroop, Amanda E. Paluch, Susan A. Murphy, Krzysztof Z. Gajos

2024

AHA!: Facilitating AI Impact Assessment by Generating Examples of Harms

Zana Buçinca, Chau Minh Pham, Maurice Jakesch, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Alexandra Olteanu, Saleema Amershi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.03280, 2023 Jun

Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams (TRAIT)

Gagan Bansal, Alison Marie Smith-Renner, Zana Buçinca, Tongshuang Wu, Kenneth Holstein, Jessica Hullman, Simone Stumpf

CHI EA '22, Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022

How Different Groups Prioritize Ethical Values for Responsible AI

Maurice Jakesch, Zana Buçinca, Saleema Amershi, Alexandra Olteanu

FAccT '22, 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 310–323

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