Christine P. Lee

I'm a PhD candidate in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Bilge Mutlu. I'm on the 2026–27 academic job market.

When people delegate tasks to AI agents, they also delegate choices about how to interpret requests, accommodate preferences, and resolve conflicts, often without stating the expectations guiding those choices. My research addresses this gulf of delegation: the difficulty of knowing, checking, and shaping how people's intentions guide agents' decisions. I study where delegation breaks down and build AI systems and interaction mechanisms around shared representations of people's goals, constraints, and preferences. My goal is to empower people to shape how AI agents participate in their lives and work.

My work spans AI personalization, formal verification of LLM-generated plans, agent memory, and robotics. In 2026, I am spending five wonderful months with Amazon's Fauna Robotics group, working on character-based memory for household robots.

My research is supported by the Cisco Distinguished Graduate Fellowship and the NSF INTEGRATE Research Traineeship.

I was born in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and moved to Korea as a kid. I've lived about half my life in each, and both are home. I like mysteries, tennis, and the smell of night air!