I'm Lucy Jiang, and I'm passionate about designing accessible technology, fostering inclusive communities, and harnessing creativity for social good.

I am a second-year PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Dr. Leah Findlater! In 2024, I graduated from Cornell University with a MS in Computer Science, advised by Dr. Shiri Azenkot. My research interests are in accessibility and human-computer interaction. I am grateful to be supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

In the Inclusive Design Lab at UW, I've worked on a handful of different accessibility research projects, focused generally on the accessibility of subjective information. We are currently studying blind and low vision people's perspectives on how to make urban and public art more accessible and examining interface support techniques to evaluate disability bias in AI-generated images. With Dr. Julie Kientz, we are investigating how to improve the diversity of HCI research recruitment from the perspective of researchers and participants. Lastly, I'm working on evaluating generative AI systems for audio description writing feedback with Dr. Brett Oppegaard from the University of Hawaii.

During my time at Cornell, I worked primarily on video accessibility research. My first project focused on 360° video accessibility (ASSETS 2023), which led to our next project on video accessibility across different viewing scenarios (CHI 2024). Inspired by the diverse range of viewing scenarios and common use cases of video access methods (e.g., captions), this inspired a follow-up study investigating video accessibility for people with ADHD (CHI 2025). Additionally, I've collaborated on research regarding hate and harassment on social media (CHI 2024 / 2025) and invisible disability representation through social VR avatars (ASSETS 2024). In 2024, I also worked with the Design Trust for Public Space as a Cornell Tech Siegel PiTech Impact Fellow.

Outside of research, I also volunteered as part of Cornell's Graduate Student School Outreach Program (GRASSHOPR), served as the President of the Computer Science Graduate Organization, mentored interdisciplinary undergraduate research projects through the Milstein Program, and guest lectured in the SoNIC Assistive Robotics workshop.

I received my BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2022. As an undergraduate, I collaborated on and coauthored three research papers with Dr. Leah Findlater in the Inclusive Design Lab, co-founded and conducted user research in an AI-driven audio description startup, TA'd for courses including Human-Computer Interaction (CSE 440) and Data Structures and Parallelism (CSE 332), and organized department-wide social events to build community as the Chair of UW's ACM chapter.

My honors thesis, advised by Dr. Richard Ladner, focused on the design of automated audio description pipelines and understanding how to best integrate visual question answering tools to provide blind and low vision writers with the context necessary to independently write audio descriptions. I received the 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Senior Thesis award from UW CSE for my work on this project.

If you'd like to chat, I'd love to connect over Zoom, email, or in-person over bubble tea and pastries! 😊