Assistant professor of CS at GMU. CS PhD, DGP Lab @UofT. HCI, CSCW, live streaming, social media, creativity, misinformation, labor & cultural heritage
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2012
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Congrats, Yue!!🚀
Future students—if you’re into computational UI/eye-tracking, seek her out at #CHI2025. I’m sure she’ll be an awesome mentor doing cool research 👀
I’ll be an assistant professor later this year and will be actively looking for potential students (RAs and PhDs) at #CHI2025. If you are interested in UI or eye tracking-related research, feel free to talk to me at CHI.
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Anyone at #CHI2025 interested in anime?
Come join us at #AnimeSIG researching anime from technical/cultural/industrial perspectives, organized by experts from industry and academia, from anthropology to technical HCI!
🕚11:10, Apr 28 (Mon)
📍2F G217
chci.pages.dev/chi2025anime
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🌏 Heading to #CHI2025? Don’t miss this engaging panel by the @sigchi_asc :
Bridging Gaps in HCI: Advancing Education, Research, and Careers in Asia bit.ly/chi2025panel
📅 Tue, 29 Apr
🕓 4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
📍 Panels Session programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025…
Explore how we can strengthen HCI education, research, and careers across Asia.
#CHI2025
Congratulations, @ChenxinranS! Looking forward to seeing your future research
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🎉 We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards! Congratulations to these incredible awardees!
ALT Image of all SIGCHI awardees for 2025
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If you an Asian and trying to learn, or teach or find a job in HCI will be challenging right?
We at @sigchi_asc organizing a panel at #CHI2025 to discuss these challenges. We will get more inpput before we run the panel, share use cases, your experiences.. Stay tuned.
Anyway meet the excellent panelist moderator and facilitators + our whole @sigchi_asc team who are not listed here. @sigchi
Thrilled to share our upcoming #CHI2025 paper on fans’ practices of building collective understanding of social media algorithms and organizing coordinated algorithmic actions to influence the online sphere. It provides insights into collective actions and online fandom.
🚀 Our study headed to #CHI2025 in Yokohama! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.…
Through an ethnography, we examine how millions of fans mobilize to influence social media algorithms.
Thanks for the collaborators: Yuhang Zheng, @XianzheFan, @Blingblingzhang, @luzc08
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We're hiring! If you're interested, check out the details here: listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/c…
@GMUIST @GeorgeMasonU
#academicTwitter #MasonIST #AI #cybersecurity #privacy #HCI #ML #NLP #data #academicjobs #openrank
Super proud to have collabroated on this #chi2025 paper which studied how users of AI companion apps actively re-align AI's values for various purposes. The strategies users used and their rationales behind were quite interesting and inspiring, especially for human-AI interaction
AI alignment is often top-down, with technical teams setting broad safeguards. But what if users had more agency? Our CHI'25 paper introduces "user-driven value alignment" -- where users actively re-align AI to reflect their values. #chi2025
📎arxiv.org/abs/2409.00862
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📣Big change this year for @ACM_CSCW. There is **only one deadline** for #CSCW2026 and it has been posted. May 13, 2025 is the day! Please spread the word! 📣
#CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.php/…
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In (dis)honor of the Supreme Court upholding the TikTok ban, resharing my paper with @elenamaris1 and @HibbyThach on mutual aid practices on TikTok. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
The loss of this platform *is* a major loss of freedom of association and expression for TikTok users.
I'm thrilled to share that another paper on Virtual YouTuber (VTuber) was conditionally accepted at #CHI2025. Led by @KenjenLee and in collab. with @AllenPiao, we explored how fans respond to the "termination"/graduation of a VTuber, through the lens of parasocial grieving. 1/2
It is truly offensive and disheartening. There’s still a long way to go for the broader computing research communities to be truly inclusive.
1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.
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🎙️ Just dropped a new episode with Toby Li (@TobyJLi), assistant professor @NotreDame. We talked about lab culture, academic life, responsible AI, Amazon’s algorithmic management, and more! Don’t miss it! 🎙️
youtube.com/watch?v=HalO0p0K…
📢I’m recruiting CS PhD students this cycle @GeorgeMasonU, to study and design emerging technologies (e.g., immersive media, genAI) to support creativity and new ways of social interactions, e.g., online creative communities & creativity support tools for cultural heritage.
Email me with your CV if interested!
Fun fact: Fairfax, where GMU is located, is ranked the #2 healthiest college town in the US (brokescholar.com/americas-he…). According to the report, Fairfax residents report the fewest days of mental health distress than anywhere else.
My PhD student Qian @LlewynWan will have two presentations today (Nov 12) at #CSCW2024, one on VTuber self-presentation and identity in Session 1b at Guanacaste 2, and the other on human-AI co-creativity during prewriting in Session 3a at Central 2. Hope to see some of you there!
I have two presentations on Tuesday at #CSCW2024 🇨🇷
📍Session 1b ⏱️9:52am - 10:05am
A study of self-presentation & identity management of virtual YouTubers
📍Session 3a ⏱️2:43pm - 2:56pm
A study of human-AI co-creativity during prewriting
Let’s connect if you’re interested!
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I have two presentations on Tuesday at #CSCW2024 🇨🇷
📍Session 1b ⏱️9:52am - 10:05am
A study of self-presentation & identity management of virtual YouTubers
📍Session 3a ⏱️2:43pm - 2:56pm
A study of human-AI co-creativity during prewriting
Let’s connect if you’re interested!