Malte F. Jung

Malte Jung is an associate professor of information science at Cornell University and the Nancy H. ’62 and Philip M. ’62 Young Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. He directs the Interplay Research Studio that explores the interplay between people and automation.

Jung’s research foregrounds the emotional and relational dimensions of human-AI and human-robot encounters. His work explores how robots become woven into the fabric of everyday life and work. His Interplay Research Studio brings an art studio practice and sensibility to research in information science and robotics. He develops new methods for studying interaction “in the wild” and collaborates across engineering, design, and the social sciences to ask not only how we build AI systems, but how those systems transform the environments, relationships, and values they enter into.

He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (with a minor in psychology) from Stanford University and a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich. Before joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford. His research has been recognized with multiple best paper awards across HRI, CHI, CSCW, and UbiComp, and an NSF CAREER award.