Luis A. Leiva is a professor of Computer Science at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg, where he leads the Computational Interaction research group. Since 2023 he is also the director of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS) at the same institution.

His research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. His main research area is computational interaction, where he combines computational thinking with data-driven models and methods to enable, explain, and support user interaction. He is a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier) and the Machine Learning with Applications journal (Elsevier). He often reviews for and serves in the program committee of several CS conferences and journals. He is also the recipient of several awards and recognitions both from industry and academia.

In September 2024 he took over the Human-Computer Interaction course at the BSc program in Computer Science of the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg.
In February 2023, he started a new MSc course: Introduction to Deep Learning at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg.
In June 2022, he taught Deep Learning for HCI in the at Saarland 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½.
In February 2022, he started a new MSc course: Prototyping with Deep Learning at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg.
In September 2021, he started two new BSc courses about Web development at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg.

• Some recent news about his research: When AI recommends artworks you’ll love (CHI’23 paper) and How synthetic voices can influence your choices (IUI’24 paper).
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• Luis A. Leiva. Temporal Saliency. June, 2023. Keynote at the Intl. Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction (PETMEI). .
• Luis A. Leiva. It’s not what you do, but how you do it: Information retrieval with implicit interaction. March, 2021. Keynote at Elements of AI, Luxembourg. .

• Outstanding reviewer recognition at CHI’26.
• Outstanding reviewer recognition at UIST’25.
• Best short paper award nominee at UMAP’25.
• Best paper award at IUI’25. 
• Best short paper award at CUI’24. 
• Best paper award nominee at UMAP’23. 
• Outstanding reviewer recognition at CHI’23.
• Best paper honorable mention at EICS’22. 
• Reviewer recognition at ICMI’22.
• Reviewer recognition at IUI’22.
• Outstanding reviewer recognition at ICMI’21.
• Outstanding reviewer recognition at MobileHCI’21.
• Reviewer recognition at INTERACT’21.

He is the co-founder and former CTO of Sciling, an SME agency specialized in B2B Machine Learning solutions. Previously he was a postodoctoral scholar at Aalto 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ (Finland) and research fellow of the PRHLT Research Center at the Technical 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Valencia (Spain). 

He holds two undergraduate degrees (Industrial Design and Industrial Engineering), an MSc in Electrical Engineering, an MAS in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, and a PhD in Computer Science.