Benjamin Xie

Dr. Benjamin Xie will be joining the Ritchie School Department of Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor in fall 2025. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Group and Graduate School of Education. His research interest is in designing critical and equitable human-data interactions for educational and environmental outcomes. He also engages with computing education, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics research communities.

He was previously an Embedded Ethics Fellow with Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and McCoy Center for Ethics in Society. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington Information School with Prof. Amy Ko, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and also a research intern at non-profit Code.org. Prior to his PhD, he was an MIT EECS-Google Research and Innovation Scholar as an undergraduate and Master’s student at MIT researching with Prof. Hal Abelson and MIT App Inventor.