Kotturi Lab Blog

Kotturi Lab Goes to CHI

Kotturi Lab Goes to CHI

Yasmine Kotturi
May 27, 2026
tl;dr: The Kotturi Lab will present two papers at CHI 2026 on student-driven AI policy design and community-centered deployment of BizChat, an AI business-planning tool for small business planning.

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CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellow Spotlight

CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellow Spotlight: Yasmine Kotturi

Computing Research Association and Yasmine Kotturi
October 2025
tl;dr: As a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow, I discuss my work building community-centered AI tools like BizChat (an LLM app helping small business owners draft business plans through a feminist makerspace partnership), argue that trustworthy AI should sometimes foster informed refusal rather than just adoption, and emphasize grounding AI design in both human-centered basics and meaningful community participation.

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