Hi!

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in the intersection of HCI and AI at the University of Washington. I am advised by Jeffrey Heer and Daniel Weld, and I collaborate closely with Ranjay Krishna.

My work centers on using AI for data-driven discovery while incorporating rather than replacing human judgement. I am motivated to explore questions such as: How can validation and user guidance be built into AI-backed tools? How can AI chaining architectures support meaningful user interactions? How can these tools support scientists and data analysts in discovering robust and reproducible findings?

I am especially interested in exploring these questions for environmental applications.

Curriculum Vitae - Google Scholar - mgrunde at cs.washington.edu

Publications

Designing LLM Chains by Adapting Techniques from Crowdsourcing Workflows
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Michelle S Lam, Ranjay Krishna, Daniel S Weld, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2025
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Wildfire and Forest Management: Opportunities for HCI Research
Nino Migineishvili, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Emmanuel Azuh, Spencer A Wood, Rene Just, Katharina Reinecke
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2025
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Visual Representations inside the Language Model
Benlin Liu, Amita Kamath, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Winson Han, Ranjay Krishna
Conference on Language Modeling, 2025
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How Do Data Analysts Respond to AI Assistance? A Wizard-of-Oz Study
Ken Gu, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Andrew M McNutt, Jeffrey Heer, Tim Althoff
ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2024
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Explanations can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems during Decision-Making
Helena Vasconcelos, Matthew Jorke, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Tobias Gerstenberg, Michael S. Bernstein
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2023
Best paper honorable mention awarded to the top 23 papers
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Measuring Compositional Consistency for Video Question Answering
Mona Gandhi, Mustafa Omer Gul, Eva Prakash, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Maneesh Agrawala
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022
pdf, benchmark data

AGQA: A Compositional Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Maneesh Agrawala
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021
pdf, benchmark data, video, blog post

Bayesian-Assisted Inference from Visualized Data
Yea-Seul Kim, Paula Kayongo, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Jessica Hullman
IEEE InfoVis 2020
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Preprints and workshop papers

RDoFlow: Automatically assessing under-specified statistical analyses in HCI
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Weixuan Liu, Ria Patil, Nino Migineishvili, Emily Reif, Ranjay Krishna, Daniel S. Weld, Jeffrey Heer
Conditional Acceptance at the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2026

Magentic-ui: Towards human-in-the-loop agentic systems
Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Jack Gerrits, Tyler Payne, Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Eric Zhu, Griffin Bassman, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Friederike Niedtner, Ece Kamar, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi
ArXiv, 2025
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Towards AI-assisted academic writing
Daniel J Liebling, Malcolm Kane, Madeleine Grunde-Mclaughlin, Ian Lang, Subhashini Venugopalan, Michael Brenner
Nations of the Americas chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Workshop on AI and Scientific Discovery, 2025
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Semantic Navigator: Query Driven Active Learning for Historical Narrative Understanding
Eva Maxfield Brown, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Isabelle Pestovski, Lanyi Zhu, Nicholas Weber
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Community-Driven AI Workshop, 2023
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When do XAI Methods Work? A Cost-Benefit Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
Helena Vasconcelos, Matthew Jorke, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Tobias Gerstenberg, Michael S. Bernstein
TRAIT Workshop at ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2022
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AGQA 2.0: An updated benchmark for compositional spatio-temporal reasoning
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Maneesh Agrawala
ArXiv, 2022
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Model Comparison of the Effects of Stimulus Structure on Visual Working Memory Recall
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Cheng Qiu, Alan Stocker
Honors Thesis in Cognitive Science
Recipient of the College Alumni Society Prize in Cognitive Science, 2021
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