Extended Abstract. "Creating Conversational Datasets for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Applications is Hard: Challenges and Research Opportunities" Maeda F. Hanafi, Kshitij Fadnis, Marina Danilevsky, Sara Rosenthal, Yannis Katsis. CHI-LBW 2025.

Paper Publication. "Diagnosing and Prioritizing Issues in Automated Order-Taking Systems: A Machine-Assisted Error Discovery Approach." Maeda F. Hanafi, Frederick Reiss, Yannis Katsis, Robert Moore, Mohammad H Falakmasir, Pauline Wang, David Wood, Changchang Liu. CHI 2025. (Honorable Mention Award)

Extended Abstract. "Machine-Assisted Error Discovery in Conversational AI Systems." Maeda F. Hanafi, Frederick Reiss, Yannis Katsis, Robert Moore, David Wood, Mohammad H Falakmasir, Changchang Liu. CHI Late Breaking Work (CHI-LBW) 2024. Paper. Video Preview. Video.

Workshop Paper. "A Comparative Analysis between Human-in-the-loop Systems and Large Language Models for Pattern Extraction Tasks." Maeda F. Hanafi, Yannis Katsis, Ishan Jindal, Lucian Popa. DaSH@EMNLP 2022.

Demo Paper. "InteractEva: A Simulation-based Evaluation Framework for Interactive AI Systems." Yannis Katsis, Martín Santillán Cooper, Maeda F. Hanafi and Yunyao Li. AAAI 2022. Paper.

Industry Track Paper. "A Simulation-based Evaluation Framework for Interactive AI Systems and Its Application." Martín Santillán Cooper, Maeda Hanafi, Yannis Katsis and Yunyao Li. IAAI 2022. Paper.

Paper Publication. "WhyFlow: Explaining Errors in Data Flows Interactively." Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Marina Danilevsky, and Yunyao Li. SIGKDD. DASH 2020. Paper. Video.

Poster Presentation. "FlowFix/WhyFlow: Diagnosing Incorrect Behavior in Large Data Pipelines." NYUAD Annual Research Conference 2017. Fall 2017. Poster. Code.

Seminar and Poster Presentation. "Diagnosing Incorrect Behavior in Large Data Pipelines." IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, California. Sept. 2017. Slides. Poster. One Minute Presentation.

Paper Publication. "A Collaborative Framework for Structure Identification over Print Documents." Maeda F. Hanafi, Miro Mannino, and Azza Abouzied. SIGMOD. HILDA 2019. Paper.

Poster Presentation. "Texture: Extracting Texts using User Annotations." NYUAD Annual Research Conference. 2015. Poster.

Seminar. "Texture: Structuring Semi-Structured Documents." University of California, Berkeley. July 1, 2015. Slides.

Demo Paper. "Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER." Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li. SIGMOD 2017. Paper. Poster.

Paper Publication. "SEER: Auto-Generating Information Extraction Rules from User-Specified Examples." Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li. CHI 2017. Paper. Video. Algorithm. CHI Slides.

Poster Presentation. "Seer: An End-to-End Automated Workflow for Information Extraction using User Highlights." Feb 2016. North East Database Day, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Slides.

Seminar and Poster Presentation. "SEER: An End-to-End Automated Workflow for Information Extraction using User Highlights." August 28, 2015. IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, California. Slides. Poster. One Minute Presentation.