Katelyn C. Morrison

I am a Senior UX Researcher in Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Design + Research organization. I recently defended my Ph.D. and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, where I was fortunate to be advised by Adam Perer in the Human–Computer Interaction Institute. During my Ph.D., my work bridged technical machine learning approaches and human-centered methods to design and evaluate explainable AI (XAI) systems that enhance human-AI collaborations in decision-making contexts, such as healthcare and wildlife conservation. Throughout my Ph.D., I completed multiple research internships at Microsoft Research and IBM Research. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in May 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a certificate in sustainability.