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Jofish Kaye

Also known as Joseph Nathaniel Kaye

Jofish Kaye is a human-computer interaction researcher whose work includes voice assistants, mobile systems, and AI-supported health care. He earned degrees at MIT and Cornell, worked on the Whereabouts Clock at Microsoft Research, studied mobile systems at Nokia, and researched data narratives and image search at Yahoo Labs. At Mozilla, he led voice research behind Firefox Voice. At Carelon, he led design research for AI medical products; ACM named him a Distinguished Member in 2023, and he coauthored a 2024 CHI panel on HCI and AI in industry. As of October 2026, he directs new-product research at Inflection AI, where his team surveyed 1,100 US adults about consumer AI.

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Timeline

  1. 1995–2008

    MIT and Cornell degrees

    At MIT, he earns a BS in brain and cognitive sciences in 1999 and an MS in media arts and sciences in 2001, with a thesis on symbolic olfactory display. He completes a PhD in information science at Cornell in 2008, focused on experience-focused HCI.

  2. 2006–2007

    The Whereabouts Clock

    In 2006, he visits Microsoft Research Cambridge's Computer Mediated Living Group and works on the Whereabouts Clock and Ambient Ink. In 2007, he coauthors a field-trial paper on the Clock, which shows family members' locations in broad privacy-preserving categories.

  3. 2009–2012

    NFC water in Haiti

    From 2009 to 2012, he works as a senior research scientist and ethnographer in Nokia Research Center's Innovation Design Experience Animation group, studies mobile technologies, and leads development of an NFC-based clean-water system for over 2,500 Haitian households.

  4. 2012–2016

    Yahoo research and CHI

    At Yahoo Labs, he studies data narratives and improves Flickr image search from 2012 to 2016. In 2016, he co-chairs CHI with Allison Druin.

  5. 2016–2020

    Mozilla's Firefox Voice

    As Mozilla's principal research scientist, he leads the Emerging Technologies team's voice program from 2016 to 2020. His team builds Firefox Voice, an open source browser extension for voice commands.

  6. December 2020–June 2023

    Carelon's healthcare AI

    From December 2020 to June 2023, he heads interaction design and user research at Carelon Health Platforms, which builds interfaces for AI-powered medical products. In 2023, he coauthors a CHI paper on healthcare AI treatment decision support; the paper reports interviews with 41 clinicians about a type 2 diabetes prototype and presents design principles for clinician adoption and trust. ACM names him a 2023 Distinguished Member for contributions to multimodal HCI and service leadership.

  7. June 2023–2024

    Wells Fargo and industry AI

    He joins Wells Fargo's Strategic Design & Innovation group in June 2023 as Principal Design Research & Strategy Scientist. In 2024, he coauthors the CHI panel 'HCI and AI in Industry: Current and Future.'

  8. As of October 2026

    New-product research at Inflection

    As of October 2026, he is Director of New Product Research at Inflection AI. His team fields two census-matched surveys of 1,100 US adults about who uses consumer AI and what people want from it.

Career

  1. NowInflection AIDirector of New Product Research
  2. 2023–2024Wells FargoPrincipal Design Research & Strategy Scientist
  3. 2020–2023Carelon Health PlatformsHead of Interaction Design and User Research
  4. 2016–2020MozillaPrincipal Research Scientist
  5. 2012–2016Yahoo
  6. 2009–2012Nokia Research CenterSenior Research Scientist and Ethnographer
  7. 2006–2007Microsoft Research

Education

  1. 2008Cornell UniversityPhD
  2. 2001Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS
  3. 1999Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS

From the biography.

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Inflection AI. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Inflection AI. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Microsoft. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Microsoft. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Jofish Kaye, Ph.D jofish.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Organizers « CHI 2016 chi2016.acm.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. GitHub - mozilla-extensions/firefox-voice: Firefox Voice is an experiment in a voice-controlled web user agent github.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Projects | Eleanor Burgess eleanorburgess.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. International computing society recognizes 2023 Distinguished Members for significant achievements eurekalert.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. How Inflection AI mapped the state of consumer AI with Prolific prolific.com. Checked 20 October 2026.