Oloff Biermann


Computer Science

Faculty of Science

Research Themes:  Evolving Language in an Information Economy

Oloff completed an MSc. in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, supervised by Dongwook Yoon. There, he had been a part of the Multimodal User Experience lab within Imager, as well as the Designing for People (DFP) research cluster. He is passionate about taking a human-centered approach to designing and developing both creativity and productivity support tools that augment user capabilities through AI. 

His research interests are in computer-assisted writing, Human-AI interaction, software engineering, human-centered design, and human-computer interaction. 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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