His research lies at the intersection of cognitive science and human-computer Interaction (HCI). Wai-Tat Fu received his PhD from George Mason University in Applied Cognitive Science. He then joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research group. He later became a post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on computational cognitive modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. He joined UIUC in 2006. Wai-Tat Fu is the Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems (TiiS) and the Topics in Cognitive Science journal. He is m the program chair of ACM IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces) 2017, the general chair of IEEE ICHI (Healthcare Informatics) 2016, and the program chair of IEEE ICHI 2015.