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Yulu (Niki) Pi

Responsible AI XAI Visualization HCI AI Policy

Hi! I'm Yulu Pi (all my friends call me Niki). I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, University of Duisburg-Essen. I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick, focusing on XAI and AI governance. Before my PhD, I worked in several governmental and international organizations.

My research centers on enhancing the transparency and fairness of AI by leveraging concepts and techniques from HCI and behavior science. My work extends beyond technical and design issues to consider how explainability can be incorporated into governance.

I have also worked with The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge on the In-Depth EU AI Act Toolkit project, where we designed a toolkit for small and medium-sized companies to ensure ethical and compliance considerations from project ideation to product deployment.

I was an Enrichment Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute from 2024 to 2025.

Publications

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2026🏆 Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives On Generative AI (LLM) System PromptsPi, Y. et al. · CHI 2026 — Best Paper Award
2026Understanding the Role of Algorithm Registers in AI Governance Through Comparative Analysis in China and the UKPi, Y. et al. · ACM FAccT 2026
2026Push and Pushback in Contesting AI: Demands for and Resistance to AccountabilityPi, Y. et al. · ACM FAccT 2026
2025Toward empowering AI governance with redress mechanismsPi, Y., Proctor, M. · Cambridge Forum on AI
2025A Toolkit for Compliance, a Toolkit for JusticePi, Y. et al. · ACM FAccT 2025
2025Credit where credit is due: How can we explain AI's role in credit decisions?Pi, Y. et al. (project lead) · FCA
2025Detecting and Analyzing Manipulative Behaviors in AI AssistantsPi, Y., Bettison, E. · AAAI AI Alignment
2025Interactive AI and Human Behavior: Challenges and Pathways for AI GovernancePi, Y. et al. · 8th AAAI/ACM AIES
2024From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value ChainsPi, Y. et al. · ACM CSCW 2024
2024Evaluating Fairness in Transaction Fraud ModelsPi, Y. et al. · ACM ICAIF 2024
2024Compliance Cards: Computational Artifacts for Automated AI Regulation CompliancePi, Y. et al. · NeurIPS 2024 Regulatable ML
2024Moral Persuasion in Large Language ModelsPi, Y. et al. · NeurIPS 2024 AdvML-Frontiers
2024Measuring Fairness in Financial Transaction ML ModelsPi, Y. et al. · Zenodo
2023INFEATURE: An Interactive Feature-Based-Explanation FrameworkPi, Y. · HCII 2023, Springer
2023Missing Value Chain in Generative AI GovernancePi, Y. · NeurIPS 2023 Regulatable ML
2022A Multidisciplinary Framework For AI-Assisted PolicymakingPi, Y., Turkay, C. · Data for Policy 2022
2021Machine learning in Governments: Benefits, Challenges and Future DirectionsPi, Y. · JeDEM 13(1)

Think Tank Reports

The four fundamentals of trustworthy AI
Explainability of AI: Progress and Trends in Global Governance
Comparison Of U.S. And EU Approaches to AI Regulation
Liability rules: EU regulation of AI goes a step forward
The Age of Artificial Intelligence: Wealth for Everyone? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & Intellisia Institute

Talks & Presentations

Apr 2026What does it mean to push back? When AI is built through a complex supply chainAI supply chains X HCI Meetup · ACM CHI 2026
2025Using Experiments for Behaviourally Informed AI GovernanceConference on Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers & HAI Workshop · University of Oxford
Apr 2025Beware the Perils of Solutionism in AI Governance and SafetyEconomics of Transformative AI · Apart Research
Dec 2024Human-Centric and Outcome-Focused Approaches to AI Governance and ComplianceSeminar series "Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI"
Aug 2024Regulating Frontier AI: Understanding China's Position and ApproachInternal workshop · ERA - Cambridge
2024AI Act is coming! AI Act is here!Internal workshop · Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge
Jun 2024Towards Empowering AI Governance with Redress MechanismsInvited talk · JUST-AI Summer Colloquium (EU Commission funded)
Oct 2023The Role of Explainability in Empowering Users to Challenge AI Decisions on CreditworthinessInvited talk · Workshop on Building Contestable Systems
Sep 2023Decoding the AI Act: Navigating Compliance for Credit ProductsInvited talk · Algorithm Audit
Jul 2023INFEATURE: An Interactive Feature-Based-Explanation Framework for Non-technical UsersTalk · International Conference on HCI · Warwick, UK
Jun 2023How Explainability Matters in the Age of AITalk · WBS PhD & Postdoc Workshop · Warwick, UK