MY TED TALK IS LIVE

My TED Talk from last October is now live in TED's official website! I talked about generative agents, and what their power to simulate ourselves and our societies will mean for us in the future. Please find it here.

January, 2024

GENERATIVE AGENTS WINS THE BEST PAPER AWARD AT UIST'23

I am really happy to share that our paper that introduced generative agents won the best paper award at UIST'23!! Congratulations and a big thank you to the amazing team -- Michael, Percy, Merrie, Carrie and Joey!

October, 2023

NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT NEURIPS WITH SPOTLIGHT

I am excited that our work on Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models is accepted to NeurIPS with Spotlight. Congratulations to Tony, Michi, Chenlin and everyone!

September, 2023

NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT TRANSACTIONS IN MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH (TMLR)

Our work on Evaluating Human-Language Model Interaction was accepted to Transactions in Machine Learning Research (TMLR). Congratulations Mina and everyone!

September, 2023

I WILL SPEAK AT TED AI

I will be at the global TED AI event this October as one of its 28 speakers, where I will speak about simulating human behavior using techniques from human-computer interaction and natural language processing. I am humbled and excited to be joined by an incredible group of colleagues on the stage. Please find more information shared on TED's official page.

August, 2023

GENERATIVE AGENTS WILL BE PRESENTED AT UIST'23, SAN FRANCISCO!

I'm thrilled that our paper, "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior," will be preseted at UIST'23, taking place in San Francisco! In this paper, we introduce the concept of and the techniques for creating generative agents to simulate believable human behavior.

If you would like to learn more about our work, some of the talks and interviews I gave on generative agents are available publicly (e.g., the UC Berkeley MARL Seminar, NBC interview, a colleague-led interview back in April, a more recent talk at the London ML Meetup). Meetup. This work has also been covered in various venues such as The Guardian, The Times, The New York Times, SBS, Nikkei, and Science.

Congratulations and thank you to my advisers, Michael and Percy, mentors, Merrie and Carrie, and undergrad mentee Joey, whose contributions made this work possible.

August, 2023

ORGANIZAING A NEW WORKSHOP @ UIST'23

We will be organizing a workshop at UIST'23 on "Architecting Novel Interactions With Generative AI Models"! If you are interested in the intersection of generative AI and interaction, please consider joining our program this October!

August, 2023

ORGANIZING A NEW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP @ CSCW'23

Our proposal for CSCW'23 Special Interest Group on "Shaping the Emerging Norms of Using Large Language Models in Social Computing Research" was accepted! Please join our program this October!

July, 2023

A NEW RESEARCH HIGHLIHGT IN THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Our work on Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship is appearing in the latest issue of the Communication of the ACM. Congratulations to everyone on the team!

July, 2023

A NEW PREPRINT ON LANGUAGE MODEL EVALUATION

Our new paper on "Evaluating the Interactability of Language Models" is out! Excited to see this effort go online!

December, 2022

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT CSCW'23

Our new paper, "Working With AI to Persuade: Examining a Large Language Model’s Ability to Generate Pro-vaccination Messages," was accepted at CSCW'23! Congratulations to the wonderful team, Elise, Sunny, and Jeff!

November, 2022

AWARDED THE MICROSOFT RESEARCH PH.D. FELLOWSHIP

I am really honored to receive the 2022 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship given to candidates pursuing a Ph.D. in computing-related areas (13 in North America; 36 globally).

Thank you so much to my advisers, Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang, as well as Meredith Ringel Morris and Karrie Karahalios, and many other mentors and collaborators who helped shape me as a researcher. This award is a testament to how amazing you all are.

October, 2022

METHOD AWARD AT CSCW'22

Our paper, "Measuring the Prevalence of Anti-Social Behavior in Online Communities", won a method award at CSCW'22! Congratulations to all my coauthors!

October, 2022

JOEY WON AN OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD :)

My student, Joey O'Brien, who worked with me, Michael and Percy over the summer presented our work at the poster session for the CURIS program (Stanford CS Dept.'s internal summer research internship program for undergraduate students) and won its one of only two Outstanding Poster awards!

Congratulations, Joey!!

SEPTEMBER, 2022

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT UIST'22

I am thrilled to share that our work on "Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems" will appear at UIST'22!!

And our accompanying demo is located "here". Please take a look if you want to explore what sorts of social simulacra we can create today.

Finally, a big thank you and congratulations to my amazing collaborator, Lindsay, my mentors, Carrie and Merrie, and my advisors, Percy and Michael!

August, 2022

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT CSCW'22

I'm excited to share that our paper, "Measuring the Prevalence of Anti-Social Behavior in Online Communities" was accepted to CSCW'22! Thank you, and congratulations to Joseph and Michael!

May, 2022

BEST PAPER AWARD AT CHI'22

Our paper, "Jury Learning: Integrating Dissenting Voices into Machine Learning Models' was recognized with the Best Paper award at CHI'22! Big congratulations to all my amazing co-authors!

March, 2022

TWO NEW PAPERS ACCEPTED AT ICA'22

Thrilled that our papers 'Can AI Persuade? Examining a Large Language Model's Ability to Generate Pro-Vaccination Messages' and 'Guidelines for Algorithm Auditing' were accepted at ICA'22! Congratulations to everyone, and particularly to Elise for successfully leading and publishing her first paper!

January, 2022

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT CSCW'22

I'm excited that our paper titled 'Power Distribution and Conflicts in Designing, Using, and Maintaining Algorithmic Socio-Technical Systems' was accepted at CSCW'22! Congratulations to all my amazing collaborators!

November, 2021

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT CHI'22

I'm excited that our paper titled '"Jury Learning: Integrating Dissenting Voices into Machine Learning Models' was accepted at CHI'22. Congratulations to all my amazing co-authors!

November, 2021

A New Paper to Appear in Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction

Our paper that summarizes the practice of "algorithm auditing" will appear in Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction. We hope that this will be a useful guidelines-paper for those interested in conducting algorithm audits.

November, 2021

Awarded the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant

Grateful that the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant will be supporting my work with my advisers, Michael and Percy!

October, 2021

Best Paper Nominated at ASSETS'21

Our full paper that will appear at ASSETS this year was nominated for the Best Paper award! Congratulations to the amazing team!

September, 2021

OUR REPORT ON FOUNDATION MODELS IS OUT

Our report "On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models" that we've been working on as a part of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) is now publicly available.

In this report, we describe a paradigm shift that's happening in AI with the rise of models that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks (e.g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3). We delve into the opportunities and risks this shift may bring to us, including the way we interact with computers and AI.

August, 2021

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT ASSETS'21

Congratulations to the Microsoft Research Ability team for "Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Auto-Ethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship" paper accepted at ASSETS'21!

June, 2021

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT AIES'21

I'm thrilled to share that our paper "Understanding the Representation and Representativeness of Age in AI Data Sets" was accepted at AIES'21! Congratulations and thank you to my amazing mentors and co-authors, Merrie, Michael, Robin and Ece!

April, 2021

Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI'21

I'm excited to share that our full paper that will appear at CHI this year on smart home stakeholders' perspectives won Best Paper Honorable Mention! Congratulations to all my wonderful co-authors!

March, 2021

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT FAccT'21

I'm thrilled to share that our paper "Designing an Online Infrastructure for Collecting AI Data From People With Disabilities" was accepted at FAccT'21! I'm really grateful to have gotten to know and worked with my amazing mentors from MSR -- Merrie, Ece, and Danielle -- on this project.
Congratulations everyone!

December, 2020

A NEW PAPER ACCEPTED AT CHI'21

I'm excited that our paper exploring the user dynamics of home technology and algorithms titled '"We Just Use What They Give Us": Understanding Passenger User Perspectives in Smart Homes' was accepted at CHI'21! Congratulations to all my amazing collaborators!

December, 2020

Joining Stanford Computer Science Dept.

I will be joining Stanford to pursue my PhD in computer science this fall supported by the Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship! I am really looking forward to working with all the colleagues in the department!

May, 2020

Deposited MS Thesis at UIUC

I reached a personal milestone of depositing my master's thesis on the role of response time in human-algorithm interaction at UIUC!! I’m deeply grateful to my amazing adviser Professor Karrie Karahalios for making the past two years truly fun and meaningful.

April, 2020

A new paper accepted at CSCW'20

Our paper entitled "Emotional Amplification During Live-Streaming: Evidence from Comments During and After News Events" was accepted at CSCW'20! Congrats to all my co-authors :)

April, 2020

Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI'20

I'm excited to share that our full paper that will appear at CHI this year on Finstagram won Best Paper Honorable Mention!! Congratulations to all my wonderful co-authors!

March, 2020

Heading to Microsoft Research (MSR) for the summer'20

I will be heading to MSR this summer to work with Drs. Meredith Ringel Morris and Ece Kamar! I'm really looking forward to the work we will do this summer, and to spend time in Seattle :)

January, 2020

A new paper to appear at ICA'20

I'm happy to note that our paper on people's emotionality on live chat titled "Live Streaming Intensifies Emotions: Evidence from Live and Retrospective Comments on YouTube" will appear at ICA'20!

January, 2020

A new paper accepted at CHI'20

I'm excited that our paper exploring Finsta usage titled "Random, Messy, Funny, Raw: Finstas as Intimate Reconfigurations of Social Media" was accepted at CHI'20!

Congratulations to all my amazing collaborators!

December, 2019

A new article on ACM CSCW's Medium page

I wrote a new article titled "Faster is not always better: benefits of slower interaction with algorithmic systems." summarizing some of the findings from our CSCW'19 paper about Slow Algorithm! Please check it out here.

November, 2019

Awarded Siebel Scholarship, class of 2020!!

I was chosen as one of the 42 Siebel Scholars class of 2020 working in the field of computer science! The scholarship is awarded to the top graduate students in the world’s leading engineering schools.

Sincere thank you to my amazing adviser, Professor Karrie Karahalios, and all my mentors and collaborators who made this possible.

Read more from the related media articles: Bloomberg, Business Wire and UIUC CS.

September, 2019

Won the SV t-shirt competition for CSCW ;)

Are you going to be at CSCW this year? Then check out the t-shirt SV's and PC's will be wearing featuring my t-shirt design with a hand-drawn view of Austin, Texas where CSCW is happening this year. Oh, and I am serving as an SV this year, so see everyone soon!

September, 2019

Two full papers accepted at CSCW'19!

I am thrilled that two of our works were accepted at CSCW'19 as full papers!

"A Slow Algorithm Improves Users’ Assessments of the Algorithm’s Quality" delves into the benefits of slowness in technology (and it is also my first, first-authored paper!).

"Search Media and Elections: A Longitudinal Investigation of Political Search Results in the 2018 U.S. Elections" presents a longitudinal audit of the Google search engine.

Congratulations and thank you to all my amazing collaborators!

July, 2019

A new paper to appear at ICA'19

Our paper entitled "Search Media and Elections: Investigating Partisanship in Political Search Results" will appear at ICA'19!

January, 2019

commPAIR.io is live

Professor Dave Markowitz @UOregon, Communications and I launched commPAIR.io that can help you understand your Twitter languange pattern! Please go check it out :)

October, 2018

A New op-ed piece in The Guardian

An op-ed piece on Google search bias Professor Jeff Hancock, Danaë Metaxa, and I wrote entitled 'Are Google search results politically biased?' appeared on the Guardian.

September, 2018

Starting @ UIUC

I will be joining the CS Department at UIUC for my M.S starting this month. My adviser for the coming semester is Professor Karrie Karahalios.

August, 2018

Accepted M.S. offer from Computer Science Department @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I will be joining CS Department at UIUC this coming fall as an M.S. candidate! I am expecting to work with Professor Karrie Karahalios and Professor Aditya Parameswaran.

March, 2018

Starting my RA-ship @ Stanford University's Computer Science Department, HCI Group.

I will be working with Danaë Metaxa, Professor James Landay and Professor Jeff Hancock in the coming months as a part of Human-Computer Interaction Group.

February, 2018

Graduated from Swarthmore College.

After four unforgettable years, I graduated with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Asian Studies. I was advised by Professor Tia Newhall (CS), Professor Bryce Wiedenbeck (CS), and Professor William Gardner (Asian Studies). I thank them for years of care and generosity.

May, 2017