PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Meredith Ringel Morris

Also known as Merrie Morris

Meredith Ringel Morris has moved her human-computer interaction work into AI. She earned a computer science degree from Brown University in 2001 and joined Microsoft Research in 2006, where she founded the Ability research group. She and Eric Horvitz received a UIST Lasting Impact Award in 2018 for their SearchTogether paper, and ACM named her a 2020 Fellow. In 2023 she co-authored a paper proposing a framework for classifying AGI models. She is director and principal scientist for human-AI interaction at Google DeepMind.

Works
259
Citations
19,144
h-index
71

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2001

    A Brown computer science degree

    She earns a computer science degree from Brown University in 2001.

  2. 2006

    Microsoft Research and the Ability group

    She joins Microsoft Research in 2006, where she also founds the Ability research group.

  3. 2008

    On the TR35 list

    MIT Technology Review names her to its 2008 TR35 list, with the entry “Searching websites jointly.”

  4. 2018

    A UIST Lasting Impact Award

    She and Eric Horvitz receive the UIST Lasting Impact Award in 2018 for their 2007 SearchTogether paper.

  5. 2020

    An ACM Fellowship and SIGCHI Academy

    ACM names her a 2020 Fellow for contributions to human-computer interaction, information retrieval, computer-supported cooperative work, and accessibility. The SIGCHI Academy also admits her in 2020.

  6. 2023

    Levels of AGI framework

    In 2023 she co-authors “Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI,” which proposes a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of AGI models.

  7. 2024

    Faster text input with language models

    In 2024 she co-authors a Nature Communications paper on using large language models to accelerate text input for people with profound motor impairments.

  8. As of October 2026

    Human-AI interaction at Google DeepMind

    She is director and principal scientist for human-AI interaction at Google DeepMind.

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  1. Alum Adventures: Meredith Ringel Morris And Eric Horvitz Win The UIST Lasting Impact Award cs.brown.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Meredith Ringel Morris - Bio cs.stanford.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. 2008 | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. UIST a showcase for innovation and an opportunity for professional growth - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Congratulations to the 2020 ACM Fellows! - CRA cra.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. CHI Academy - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Meredith Ringel Morris research.google. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Meredith Ringel Morris - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.