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Hi, I’m Werner Geyer. I am a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research in Cambridge, MA and I am currently heading the AI Interaction team with researchers in Cambridge, MA and Yorktown, NY.  I am also global strategy lead for Human-Centered AI at IBM Research. I work with an interdisciplinary team of HCI & ML & Vis researchers, software engineers, and designers. My research is situated at the intersections of Artificial Intelligence and User Experience. My goal is to design, build, and validate intelligent interactive systems and visual experiences that inform the future of Human-AI Interaction. As part of our research agenda on Human-Centered AI for Generative AI, the current focus of our team is to create trustworthy, safe, and effective user experiences for intent-based generative AI systems.

In my role as a research and innovation lead at IBM Research my team and I have been frequently working across divisions and business units to transfer innovation into product. Some of the more important technology transfers in reverse chronological order are the WatsonX.Data Interface, IBM Factsheets, Watson Orchestrate, Watson Assistant, AutoAI, Kenexa SurveyAnalytics, IBM Connections including Activities and Profiles, and ActivityExplorer. Some of the noteworthy internal technologies I developed with my team are Author Workbench, Social Pulse, 1×5 Crowdfunding, and Selfiestation. I’ve also spent one year in product development working as a software developer with our product teams to ship a product. I’ve managed a multi-million $ joint research program over multiple years with one of our business units.

In my role as a scientist, I frequently serve on conference and workshop organizing committees, program committees, as conference chair, or reviewer. My research has been published in many venues including CHI, CSCW, IUI, DIS etc. I’ve co-authored more than 100+ publications and 40+ patents and received multiple best paper awards and IBM internal recognition for outstanding technical and scientific achievements. I’m also founding editor of the Human-Centered AI Publication on Medium.

I also have several years of experience working with Human Resources on AI projects and initiatives around recruiting, employee engagement, onboarding including leading our AI recruiting program jointly with HR. This work involved designing, establishing and implementing new recruiting processes including tooling and leveraging AI for recruiting. I started this activity to help build up the initial research staff of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge.