I am a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I am fortunate to be advised by Steven Wu and Ken Holstein.

My work examines the safety and validity of data-driven algorithms deployed in high stakes decision-making settings. I develop algorithmic methods and evaluation tools to help practitoners assess the feasability of model deployments given real-world complexities. I adopt an interdisciplinary perspective, leveraging methods from HCI, machine learning, and statistics. My work is generously supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I did my Master’s in Computer Science at Cambridge. I also studied Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Missouri, where I co-founded TigerAware, a mobile-based research platform.

Luke Guerdan
lguerdan [at] cs.cmu.edu

News & Travel


Apr 2023 Two papers accepted at FAccT 23’. See you in Chicago!
Nov 2022 I will be presenting work on counterfactual prediction under outcome measurement error at the NeurIPS Causal ML for Impact workshop on Friday Dec 2nd.
Apr 2022 I will be presenging Under-reliance or misalignment? at the CHI Workshop on Trust and Reliance in Human-AI Teams. You can see a video about this work here.

Conference Papers


  1. Counterfactual Prediction Under Outcome Measurement Error Luke Guerdan, Amanda Coston, Kenneth Holstein, and Steven Wu Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2023 [PDF]
  2. Ground(less) Truth: A Causal Framework for Proxy Labels in Human-Algorithm Decision-Making Luke Guerdan, Amanda Coston, Steven Wu, and Kenneth Holstein Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2023 [PDF]
  3. Extracting Motion-Related Subspaces from EEG in Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Studies Lukas Gehrke*, Luke Guerdan*, and Klaus Gramman 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2019 [PDF] [Poster]
  4. TigerAware: An Innovative Mobile Survey and Sensor Data Collection and Analytics System Will Morrison, Luke Guerdan, Jayanth Kanugo, Tim Trull, and Yi Shang IEEE DSC, 2018
  5. Augmented Resource Allocation Framework for Disaster Response Coordination in Mobile Cloud Environments Luke Guerdan, Olivia Apperson, and Prasad Calyam IEEE MobileCloud, 2017 [PDF] [Poster]
  6. ADA - Automatic Detection of Alcohol Usage for Mobile Ambulatory Assessment Peng Sun, Nick Wergeles, Cheng Zhang, Luke Guerdan, Tim Trull, and Yi Shang IEEE SmartComp, 2016

Workshops & Preprints


  1. Under-reliance or misalignment? How Proxy Outcomes Limit Measurement of Appropriate Reliance in AI-assisted Decision-Making Luke Guerdan, Kenneth Holstein, and Steven Wu ACM CHI 2022 Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams (TRAIT), 2022 [PDF] [Video]
  2. Towards a Learner-Centered Explainable AI Anna Kawakami, Luke Guerdan, Yang Cheng, Anita Sun, Alison Hu, Kate Glazko, Nikos Arechiga, Matthew Lee, Scott Carter, Haiyi Zhu, and Kenneth Holstein ACM CHI 2022 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), 2022 [PDF]
  3. Counterfactual Decision Support Under Treatment-Conditional Outcome Measurement Error Luke Guerdan, Amanda Coston, Ken Holstein, and Steven Zhiwei Wu NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Causality for Real-world Impact, 2022
  4. Ground(less) Truth: The Problem with Proxy Outcomes in Human-AI Decision-Making Luke Guerdan, Amanda Coston, Ken Holstein, and Steven Zhiwei Wu NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Human-Centered AI (HCAI), 2022
  5. Toward Affective XAI: Facial Affect Analysis for Understanding Explainable Human-AI Interactions Luke Guerdan, Alex Raymond, and Hatice Gunes ICCV Workshop on Responsible Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 2021 [PDF] [Video]
  6. Deep Learning vs. Classical Machine Learning: A Comparison of Methods for Fluid Intelligence Prediction Luke Guerdan*, Peng Sun*, Connor Rowland, Logan Harrison, Zhang Tang, Nick Wergeles, and Yi Shang MICCAI Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Neurocognitive Prediction Challenge, 2019 [PDF]