Associate Professor, CS+Design
hq@northwestern.edu
Mudd 3531
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Delta Lab / DTR
Computer Science /
Segal Design
Technology & Social Behavior
I direct the Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) program at Northwestern, and co-direct the Delta Lab with Matt Easterday, Liz Gerber, and Nell O'Rourke. My research bridges the fields of Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Design, Learning Science, and Decision Science.
The goal of my research is to advance the design of integrated socio-technical models that promote and advance core human values. My personal research focuses on the value of self-direction. I am studying what self-direction is; what gets in the way of self-direction; and how can be fostered, developed, taught, and learned. If you are an expert on this topic, regardless of your field of practice, please reach out to me and I'd love to learn from you.
With my students, I design, build, and study Computational Ecosystems that interweave community process, social structures, and intelligent systems to unite people and machines to advance human values. Research directions my students are leading include:
Values: metacognition; practice; belonging; personal growth.
Values: self-directed learning; interest, exploration, and wonder
Values: personal autonomy; service to community

Yinmiao Li, Melissa Chen, Ayse Hunt, Haoqi Zhang, and Eleanor O'Rourke
ICER '24, Melbourne, Australia, 2024.

Haoqi Zhang.
CHI '24, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024.

Yinmiao Li, Haoqi Zhang, and Nell O'Rourke.
ISLS '24, Buffalo NY, USA 2024.

Kapil Garg, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CHI '23, Hamburg, Germany, 2023.

Kapil Garg, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CSCW '22, online, 2022.

Ryan Louie, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CHI '22, New Orleans, 2022.

Ryan Louie, Kapil Garg, Jennie Werner, Allison Sun, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CSCW '20, online, 2020.

Kapil Garg, Yongsung Kim, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CSCW '19, Austin, Texas, 2019.

Josh Hibschman, Darren Gergle, Eleanor O'Rourke, and Haoqi Zhang.
ACM TOCHI '19.

Sarah Lim, Josh Hibschman, Eleanor O'Rourke, and Haoqi Zhang.
UIST '18, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
honorable mention for best paper

Yongsung Kim, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
CHI '18, Montreal, Canada, 2018.

Haoqi Zhang, Matthew W. Easterday, Elizabeth Gerber, Daniel Rees Lewis, and Leesha Maliakal.
CSCW '17, Portland, 2017.

Yongsung Kim, Aaron Shaw, Haoqi Zhang, and Elizabeth Gerber.
CSCW '17, Portland, 2017.

Joshua Hibschman and Haoqi Zhang.
UIST '16, Tokyo, 2016.

Katherine Lin, Henry Spindell, Scott Cambo, Yongsung Kim, and Haoqi Zhang.
UIST '16, Tokyo, 2016.

Yongsung Kim, Emily Harburg, Shana Azria, Aaron Shaw, Elizabeth Gerber, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang.
HCOMP '16, Austin, 2016.

Josh Hibschman and Haoqi Zhang.
UIST '15, Charlotte, 2015.

Kevin Chen and Haoqi Zhang.
CHI '15, Seoul, 2015.

Anant Bhardwaj, Juho Kim, Steven P. Dow, David Karger, Sam Madden, Robert C. Miller, Haoqi Zhang.
HCOMP '14, Pittsburgh, 2014.

Aaron Shaw, Haoqi Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Sean Munson, Benjamin Mako Hill, Elizabeth Gerber, Peter Kinnaird, and Patrick Minder.
interactions: 21, 2, March 2014.

Chilton, Kim, Andre, Cordeiro, Landay, Weld, Dow, Miller, and Zhang.
CHI '14, Toronto, 2014.
honorable mention for best paper

Robert C. Miller, Haoqi Zhang, Eric Gilbert, and Elizabeth Gerber.
CSCW '14, Baltimore, 2014.

Andre, Zhang, Kim, Chilton, Dow, and Miller.
HCOMP '13, Palm Springs, 2013.
notable paper award

Juho Kim, Haoqi Zhang, Paul André, Lydia Chilton, Wendy MacKay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Robert C. Miller, Steven P. Dow.
UIST '13, St Andrews, 2013.

Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, and David Parkes.
In AAAI '13, Bellevue, 2013.

Haoqi Zhang, Paul André, Lydia Chilton, Juho Kim, Steven P. Dow, Robert C. Miller, Wendy MacKay, and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon.
Demo at CHI Interactivity, 2013.

[PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang
Dissertation, Harvard University, 2012.

Haoqi Zhang, John Lai, and Moritz Baecher.
In HCOMP '12, Toronto, 2012.

Haoqi Zhang, Edith Law, Krzysztof Gajos, Eric Horvitz, Rob Miller, and David Parkes.
In CHI '12, Austin, 2012.
honorable mention for best paper

Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, Yiling Chen, and David Parkes.
In AAMAS '12, Valencia, Spain, 2012.
Earlier version [PDF, slides] appeared at the ACM EC Workshop on social computing & user-generated content, 2011.

Andrew Mao, Yiling Chen, Krzysztof Gajos, David Parkes, Ariel Procaccia, and Haoqi Zhang
In HCOMP '12, Toronto, 2012.

Ian Kash, John Lai, Haoqi Zhang, and Aviv Zohar.
In WWW '12, Lyon, France, 2012.
Earlier version [PDF, slides] appeared at the ACM EC workshop on NetEcon, 2011.

[PDF, slides]
Jon Noronha, Eric Hysen, Haoqi Zhang, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos.
In UIST '11, Santa Barbara, 2011.

Edith Law and Haoqi Zhang.
In AAAI '11, San Francisco, 2011.
An Iterative Dual Pathway Structure for Speech-to-Text Transcription [PDF, slides]
Beatrice Liem, Haoqi Zhang, and Yiling Chen.
In HCOMP '11 (held at AAAI), San Francisco, 2011.
Crowdsourcing General Computation [PDF]
Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, Rob Miller, and David C. Parkes.
In the CHI 2011 workshop on crowdsourcing and human computation, 2011.
Also available as MSR technical report MSR-TR-2011-6.
Incentive Design for Adaptive Agents [PDF, slides]
Yiling Chen, Jerry Kung, David Parkes, Ariel Procaccia, and Haoqi Zhang.
In AAMAS '11, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.
Toward Automatic Task Design: A Progress Report [PDF, slides]
Eric Huang, Haoqi Zhang, David Parkes, Krzysztof Gajos, and Yiling Chen.
In KDD-HCOMP'10, Washington, DC, 2010.
Policy Teaching Through Reward Function Learning [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, and Yiling Chen.
In the 10th ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (EC'09), Stanford, CA, 2009.
A General Approach to Environment Design with One Agent [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang, Yiling Chen, and David C. Parkes.
In the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, 2009.
Strong Activity Rules for Iterative Combinatorial Auctions [PDF]
Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes, and Haoqi Zhang.
In Computers & Operations Research, 2009.
Value-based Policy Teaching with Active Indirect Elicitation [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang and David C. Parkes.
In the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'08), Chicago, IL, 2008
accepted for oral & poster presentation
Enabling Environment Design via Active Indirect Elicitation [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang and David C. Parkes.
In the 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling, Chicago, IL, 2008.
Policy Teaching through Reward Function Learning [PDF]
Haoqi Zhang
Undergraduate thesis, Computer Science and Economics, Harvard College, 2007 (Hoopes Prize Winner).

Oh, and my dog Stella is awesome.