Hanjie Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. She is also affiliated with the Ken Kennedy Institute. Prior to joining Rice, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University from 2023 to 2024, hosted by Dr. Mark Dredze. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2023 at the University of Virginia, where her advisor was Dr. Yangfeng Ji.

Hanjie is broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, Interpretable Machine Learning, and Trustworthy AI. Her research focuses on understanding the properties, mechanisms, and capabilities of neural language models, enabling their alignment, interaction, and collaboration with humans, and enhancing their impact on real-world applications such as medicine, healthcare, sports, and more. By developing explainable AI techniques, she aims to make intelligent systems controllable by system developers, accessible to general users, applicable to various domains, and beneficial to society.