Hui-Ru (Irene) Ho

About Me

I am currently a PhD student from the People and Robots Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am currently advised by Dr. Bilge Mutlu.

Before I join this PhD program, I earned my dual Master’s degree in both Computer Science (May 2023) and Educational Psychology (Dec 2023) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was gratefully supervised by Dr. Edward Hubbard, the director of the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Educational Psychology. In addition, I earned my Bachaler’s degree from the Department of Psychology (May 2019) at National Taiwan University.

My research centers on Human-AI Interaction (HAI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). My goal is to understand, design, and develop interactive systems to enahnce human learning.

News

• [Jan. 2026] Accepted to ACM/IEEE HRI 2026 Pioneers 🎖️
• [Oct. 2025] Completed my PhD qualifying exam. I am grateful for the support from my committee members: Bilge Mutlu, Junjie Hu, and Vikas Singh
• [Oct. 2025] Attended IEEE IROS 2025 at Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳
• [Sept. 2025] Attended ACM UIST 2025 at Busan, Korea 🇰🇷
• [Sept. 2025] Began my research visit in Singapore 🇸🇬 with Prof. Jiannan Li
• [May. 2025] Attended and presented at CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵
• [Jan. 2025] Accepted to ACM CHI 2025 Doctoral Consortium 🎖️
• [Jan. 2025] Two papers accepted to ACM CHI 2025
• [May. 2024] Attended and presented at CHI 2024 in Honolulu, HI 🇺🇸
• [Jan. 2024] One paper accepted to ACM CHI 2024 and won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award 🥇

Publications

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