Elijah Claggett

I am a Master's student of Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
with a passion for building human-centered computational tools,
advised by Hirokazu Shirado.

Selected Publications

2025 Claggett, E., Kraut, Robert E., Shirado, H. “Relational AI: Facilitating Intergroup Cooperation with Socially Aware Conversational Support” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
2025 Claggett, E., Shirado, H. “Making Pairs That Cooperate: Chatbot Assessment of Receptiveness in Human Conversations” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Selected Projects

Selected Projects

Industry Experience

Industry Experience

2024 Sony Computer Science Laboratories Research Intern
2019-2022 eMediCall Inc. & Employee Insights Full Stack Web Developer
2019-2021 Electronic Theatre Controls Software Engineer Intern
2020 Red Alpha Software Development Intern
2018 Mindgrub Associate Web Developer
Teaching Experience

Teaching Experience

2024 Carnegie Mellon University
Social Agents
Teaching Assistant
2023 University of Tokyo
Summer Institute for Computational Social Science
Teaching Assistant
2021 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Intermediate Japanese II
Teaching Assistant
2019 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Intermediate Japanese
Teaching Assistant
About Me

About Me

Under the supervision of Hirokazu Shirado, I study the effects of computer-mediated communication on the development of social relationships between diverse people. My work spans the implementation and experimental validation of AI interventions to help these relationships blossom.

My colorful past experiences at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Kyushu University have filled my life with friendships that I cherish dearly. In my time off, I will travel any distance to reconnect with them.