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Elena Agapie serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics within the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, a position she has held since 2020. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington (2020), an M.S. in Computer Science from Harvard University (2013), and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (2009). Agapie's research specializes in human-computer interaction, human-centered design, social computing, and health informatics. She designs tools that empower people to integrate healthy behaviors into their lives by balancing evidence-driven interventions from health and behavioral sciences with individual needs. Examples include social computing systems for exercise planning using crowd advice informed by experts, and conversational agents to assist patients with low health literacy in emergency rooms.