Interview with Kayla Boggess: Explainable AI for more accessible and understandable technologies

In this interview series, we're meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the second of our interviews with the 2025 cohort, we hear from Kayla Boggess, a PhD student at the University of Virginia, and find out more about her research on explainable AI. I'm a member of the University of Virginia Link Lab, which is a multi-disciplinary lab focused on cyber-physical systems. There's individuals from departments across the University of Virginia that all work in the lab, so I've had the opportunity to work with other researchers in computer science, system engineering, psychology, and even law during my time there.