2023–2028
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Research Assistant, advised by Amy Pavel
Karim Benharrak
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Ph.D. Student at The University of Texas at Austin
Research Area
I am passionate about designing, developing, and evaluating interactive systems with an interest in exploring the collaborative potential of Human-AI interaction in content creation processes. My long-term goal is to make content creation and communication more effective by 1) prioritizing the content creator’s needs and embedding ML technologies (e.g., NLP) to support more efficient content generation while 2) keeping their target audience in mind for tailored and personalized content experiences.
Positions
2022–2023
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Research Intern, advised by David Lindlbauer and Dominik Moritz
2020–2023
University of Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Germany
Research Assistant, advised by Daniel Buschek
2022
TeamViewer
Goeppingen, Germany
Software Engineer, working with the Assist AR team
2020–2022
Simsa
Bayreuth, Germany
Co-Founder, B2B startup providing individualized e-learning services to construction companies
2019–2021
Simsa
Langen, Germany
Co-Founder, Social startup with a mobile lifestyle app and online community
Education
2023–2028
Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Advised by Amy Pavel
2019–2023
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Germany
Advised by Daniel Buschek
Thesis: “OptiPhys: Optimization-based Creation of Data Physicalizations using Everyday Objects”.
Notable Awards
2021
Entrepreneurial Skills Programme for High Potentials
Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Bayreuth
The Entrepreneurial Skills Programme (ESP) aims to enable students and doctoral candidates to further develop their innovative skills and personality as founders.
2019–2025
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Bonn
The German Academic Scholarship Foundation grants prestigious scholarships to students with outstanding academic achievements. Merit-based grant for B.S. and M.S. studies
2019
Bavarian State Prize (Bayerischer Landespreis)
Bavarian State Ministry of Education
Received the Bavarian State Prize in the European Competition due to my art collage submission with the topic "Social Media - A Democracy Killer?"
Publications [Interactive Version]
Conference
C3
Writer-Defined AI Personas for On-Demand Feedback Generation
Karim Benharrak, Tim Zindulka, Florian Lehmann, Hendrik Heuer, Daniel Buschek.
To appear at CHI, 2024.
C2
Beyond Text Generation: Supporting Writers with Continuous Automatic Text Summaries
C1
SummaryLens - A Smartphone App for Exploring Interactive Use of Automated Text Summarization in Everyday Life
Thesis
T1
OptiPhys: Optimization-based Creation of Data Physicalizations using Everyday Objects
Karim Benharrak.
My bachelor thesis.
2023.
Talks
Django Unchained: How a Learning Experience Platform Powered Digitalization in the Construction Industry using Django
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Legmon: How to Get Started? - Insights into an App Startup
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Teaching
2024
CS 378: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant,
60 students
Presented sessions, updated assignments, graded, held office hours.
References
Amy Pavel
Professor at the Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
amypavel.com
Daniel Buschek
Professor of Mobile Intelligent User Interfaces
University of Bayreuth
daniel-buschek.de
David Lindlbauer
Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
davidlindlbauer.com
Dominik Moritz
Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
domoritz.de