Louise Barkhuus is currently a visiting professor at Drexel University and a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She has been at ITU since 2016; prior to that, she spent two years as a visiting professor at Cornell Tech. From 2012 to 2015, she served as an Associate Professor at Stockholm University, and from 2007 to 2011, she was a research scientist at UC San Diego.

Her research focuses on human-centered AI, with a particular emphasis on privacy perceptions in AI-facilitated socio-technical systems. She employs qualitative and mixed methods to study human interaction and practices around AI technologies - especially location-based technologies - in order to better understand how to design privacy-sensitive social AI systems.