Ryan Louie

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Computer Science in the Vanderbilt University College of Connecting Computing

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Education

Postdoc, Computer Science, Stanford University
Ph.D, Technology and Social Behavior, Northwestern University
B.S., Engineering with a Concentration in Robotics, Olin College of Engineering

About

Ryan Louie is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and works across the areas of AI in education, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing. His goal is to study the psychosocial impacts of widely-available AI systems and create purpose-built AI tools for upskilling people in high-stakes relational domains. In this endeavor, he created AI-simulated practice and feedback tools to upskill human counselors in delivering mental health care. He remains interested in improving the responsible deployment and efficacy-evaluation of AI systems used in personal and workplace learning settings.

Research Focus

Large Language and Generative Models as Simulation and Practice Tools
Psychosocial Impacts of Frontier AI Systems
Toolkits for Co-Design, Adaption, and Evaluation of Human-AI Systems

Publication Highlights

Louie, R., Shah, R. S., Orney, I. H., Pacheco, J. P., Brunskill, E., & Yang, D. (2026, April). Can LLM-simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-31).

Moore, J., Mehta, A., Agnew, W., Anthis, J. R., Louie, R., Mai, Y., … & Ong, D. C. (2026, June). Characterizing delusional spirals through human-LLM chat logs. In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 7631-7674).

Louie, R., Nandi, A., Fang, W., Chang, C., Brunskill, E., & Yang, D. (2024, November). Roleplay-doh: Enabling domain-experts to create llm-simulated patients via eliciting and adhering to principles. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 10570-10603).