Xiaojun Bi
Xiaojun Bi
Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science
Room 161
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424

Website (URL)
http://www.xiaojunbi.com/
Email
xiaojun [at] cs.stonybrook.edu
Interests
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, AI-powered Input Technologies, Multimodal Interaction, Probabilistic Modeling of User Interaction, Accessible Input Technologies.
Biography

Xiaojun Bi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. Prior to joining Stony Brook, he was a Research Scientist at Google LLC. in California. Xiaojun Bi earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, working with Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science, and Bachelor's degree in Automation both from Tsinghua University.

Research

Xiaojun Bi's research focuses on Human-AI interaction, AI-powered input technologies, multimodal interaction, probabilistic modeling of user interaction, and accessible input technologies. His innovations such as keyboard correction and completion algorithm, bimanual gesture typing, and personalizing language models for text entry have been integrated into the stock Google keyboard and used by Android users worldwide. This Google AI blog article introduces the successful technology transfer of some of his inventions.

Awards
Xiaojun Bi has authored over 50 publications in the premier Human Computer Interaction publication venues such as CHI and UIST, and has received 11 Best Paper or Honorable Mention awards. He is a two-time Google Faculty Research Award winner and inventor of 33 US patents.
Teaching Summary
CSE 518 Foundations of Human Computer Interaction, CSE/ISE/EST 323 Human Computer Interaction.