Jaemarie Solyst
Jaemarie Solyst
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jaemarie[at]cs.washington.edu
I am a postdoc at the University of Washington in the School of Computer Science & Engineering and Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination. I recently received my PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. My research is at the intersection of responsible AI, human-computer interaction, and computing education.
Specifically, I investigate how young people can be empowered in the age of AI with critical AI literacy and agency to participate in responsible AI processes. Youth are overlooked as important contributors to the future of AI fairness. My research has been published in core human-computer interaction and learning science venues and has been awarded at ACM CHI and CSCW.
I am an eScience Postdoctoral Fellow, Kapor Foundation Research Fellow and a Jacobs Foundation CERES Scholar. I previously interned with Google's Responsible AI Team. Before my PhD studies, I received my BA with a double major in computer science and psychology from Mount Holyoke College and was a US-Germany Fulbright research scholar.
About my work
Youth regularly use AI. However, it is increasingly well-known that AI can cause harm, such as through the reproduction of societal biases at scale. My research explores fostering young people's development of techno-social change agency in the age of AI—in other words, their critical socio-ethical understanding of AI-driven technologies and ability to participate in the design and evaluation of AI systems that impact them.
💡 Are you a researcher or educator interested in youths' critical understanding of AI? Check out some examples of my AI literacy materials.
Recent selected publications
(a full list can be found on my curriculum vitae and Google Scholar page)
Jaemarie Solyst, Ellia Yang, Shixian Xie, Jessica Hammer, Amy Ogan, & Motahhare Eslami. CSCW 2023.
⭐ Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion
RAD: A Framework to Support Youth in Critiquing AI
Jaemarie Solyst, Emily Amspoker, Ellia Yang, Motahhare Eslami, Jessica Hammer, & Amy Ogan. SIGCSE 2025.
"I Would Like to Design": Black Girls Analyzing and Ideating Fair and Accountable AI
Jaemarie Solyst, Shixian Xie, Ellia Yang, Angela E.B. Stewart, Motahhare Eslami, Jessica Hammer, & Amy Ogan. CHI 2023.
⭐ Best Paper Honorable Mention
Children's Overtrust and Shifting Perspectives of Generative AI
Jaemarie Solyst, Ellia Yang, Shixian Xie, Jessica Hammer, Amy Ogan, & Motahhare Eslami. ICLS 2024.
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Made possible by the incredible people and communities that I get to collaborate with!
2025
Two acceptances to FAccT: paper on youth auditing AI and a session on youth leading critical responsible AI discourse—excited for this work to come out!
Honored to be selected as a Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher 🇩🇪
Two papers accepted to CHI on responsible AI in industry and culturally responsive computing.
🏆 We received a Best Paper award!
Learned so much and enjoyed sharing new work at the CreateAI Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania
Paper accepted to AIED on equitably designing learning systems
Paper accepted to ISLS on critical AI literacy
2024
Research featured in the SCS News: Kids' Role in AI
Invited speaker at responsible social computing workshop at CSCW
New paper accepted to SIGCSE on the RAD (Recognize, Analyze, Deliberate) framework to support youth in critiquing AI 💡
Honored to have been awarded a Kapor Foundation Research Fellowship! 🎉
Presented new paper on youths' overtrust of ChatGPT at ISLS in Buffalo!
Three posters accepted to ICER & one received an additional invited lightning talk! Excited for my students Ellia Yang and Emily Amspoker for their first posters! 🎉
New research on promoting algorithmic justice in AI education in K-12 presented at the American Educational Research Association
Guest talk at the University of Pennsylvania for the course: AI for Children and Youth: Learning, Creating, and Understanding
Invited talk at University of Texas at Austin's iSchool
Shared research on girls' empowerment in computing education with the American Association of University Women, Greater Richmond Branch
Guest lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the JEDI course on Identity, Privilege, & Intersectionality in Computing
2023
Invited talk at the Barnard College, Columbia University Computer Science Department
🏆 Paper on youths' potential to contribute to the future of AI fairness won award recognizing Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion at CSCW!
Panelist in the Empower Learning in AI conference on AI and Education Equity in Higher Education
Invited talk at Google Kids and Families UX Group
New methods paper on co-designing games for computing education and work on youths' critical understandings of AI presented at ISLS
Excited to spend the summer at Google's Responsible AI with the Technology, AI, Society and Culture team in New York City!
🏆 Paper on Black girls' engagement with the design of ethical AI received Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI
Lightning talk at Mozilla Fest
Poster on speculative future booklets in AI literacy research and lightning talk on intergenerational games to learn about AI ethics presented at SIGCSE
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the rest is history
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