Jiawen Li | University of Michigan

About Me

I am a senior undergraduate pursuing a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Data Science Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am an incoming Ph.D. student at Purdue University, where I will be advised by Jason Wu. I had the privilege of being advised by Professor Steve Oney at the University of Michigan in web automation, and I had a wonderful summer at the University of Notre Dame under the mentorship of Professor Toby Li in human-agent collabration.

My research explores Human-AI systems that collaborate not after we think, but as we act.

News

[Oct. 2025] Attending VL/HCC 2025 in Rayleigh, North Carolina.
[Oct. 2025] Attending UIST 2025 in Busan, South Korea.
[June. 2025] I am joinning Sandwich Lab as a summer research intern at Univeristy of Notre Dame!
[April. 2025] My first co-authored paper Multiclick: cross-tab automation via action generalization has been accepted to UIST 2025!

Publications and Preprints

ALLOY: Generating Reusable Agent Workflows from User Demonstration

Jiawen Li, Zheng Ning, Yuan Tian, Toby Jia-jun Li

(In submission)

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Dark patterns meet GUI agents: LLM agent susceptibility to manipulative interfaces and the role of human oversight

Jingyu Tang*, Chaoran Chen*, Jiawen Li, Zhiping Zhang, Bingcan Guo, Ibrahim Khalilov, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Yanfang Ye, Tianshi Li, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li

CHI 2026

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Multi-Click: Cross-Tab Web Automation via Action Generalization

Jiacheng Zhang, Jiawen Li, Maryam Arab, Steve Oney

UIST 2025

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Posters

AgentPbD: Interactive Agentic Workflow Generation from User Demonstration on Web Browsers

Jiawen Li, Zheng Ning, Yuan Tian, Toby Jia-Jun Li

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2025.

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Services

Teaching Assistant for VG101 Introduction to Computer and Programing
Writing Consultant at JI Writing Center