Democratizing AI for Legal Professionals:
          Creating Cognitive AI Legal Assistants with No Coding
                                               Michelle Zhou
                                                  Juji Inc.
                                             3165 Olin Avenue
                                             San Jose, CA 95117
                                                   USA
                                       Michelle.Xue.Zhou@gmail.com




ABSTRACT
With the rapid advances of AI technologies and         Michelle Zhou is a co-founder and CEO of Juji,
their applications, it is inevitable AI would play a   Inc., an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that
big role in legal practices. While legal               specializes in developing Cognitive AI Assistants
professionals wish to enlist AI’s help, not            in the form of chatbots. She is an expert in the
everyone has the required skills or resources to       field of Human-Centered AI, an interdisciplinary
create their own AI solutions. In this talk,           area that intersects AI and Human-Computer
Michelle will use the development of Cognitive         Interaction (HCI). Zhou has authored more than
AI Assistants as an example to describe the            100 scientific publications and 45 patent
challenges, highlight the state-of-the-art             applications on subjects including conversational
advances, and practical use cases that Cognitive       AI, personality analytics, and interactive visual
AI Assistants could aid legal professionals.           analytics of big data. Prior to founding Juji, she
Moreover, Michelle will highlight how legal            spent 15 years at IBM Research and the IBM
professionals can set up, customize, launch, and       Watson Group, where she managed the research
manage their own custom Cognitive AI Assistant         and development of Human-Centered AI
with no coding or no technical skills required, a      technologies and solutions, including IBM
step toward democratizing AI for legal                 Watson Personality Insights. Zhou serves as
professionals.                                         Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
                                                       Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) and an
                                                       Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on
                                                       Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), and
                                                       was formerly the Steering Committee Chair for
                                                       the ACM International Conference Series on
In: Proceedings of the Second International            Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). She is an ACM
Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal    Distinguished Member and received a Ph.D. in
Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA      Computer Science from Columbia University.
2021), held in conjunction with ICAIL 2021. June       https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-
21, 2021. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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