Jiawen Stefanie Zhu

PhD Student @uwcse | UG @WaterlooMath

[Navreet Kaur @navreeetkaur]

People share deeply personal context with LLMs – it feels anonymous, judgment-free, and promises tailored advice and information.

In our #ACL2026 paper, we ask: how does an asker's role –– implicitly signaled in how they frame a question –– shape the response they get back? 🧵

[Felicia Li FENG @FeliciaFENG4]

Try Knock-Knock and make multi-human, multi-agent collaboration easier!

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

Very excited to attend the Agentic AI Summit 2025 today at UC Berkeley @BerkeleyRDI and give a Lightning Talk on my research in 🤖<>🙆‍♀️Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment & Value Alignment!

I’ll be sharing three recent papers I'm truly excited about:

💎 1. Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: https://t.co/pa3yqjzz6d
🧭 2. ValueCompass: https://t.co/EvwyMqKfKv 🧐 3. Mind the Value-Action Gap: https://t.co/TGi8oZ1RSl

Let’s chat if you’re around! Love to brainstorm and share ideas together! ☕

#AgenticAI #HumanAIAlignment #ValueAlignment #ResponsibleAI

[Allen School @uwcse]

What happens when a robotaxi from California tries to drive in Cairo? Is that website colorful or chaotic? And when did chatbots get so rude? In a new book, @UW #UWAllen’s @_doctor_kat explores how culture shapes tech use and design. https://t.co/fW02kBgNkz #HCI #AI #UWdiscovers

[Tal August @tal_august]

🚨Calling all writing tutors &amp; instructors!
Can writing tools give guidance, but not text suggestions?
We built a prototype based on conversations with tutors, and would love your thoughts:
📝 Try it out https://t.co/wlIz18Oi9d
🧾 Take a short survey to enter a $20 raffle

[Jiawen Stefanie Zhu @stef_zjw]

This project was part of my undergrad at @UWCheritonCS, supervised by @jeffjianzhao. I'm honoured that it received a Best Poster award 🏆 at #GI2025! (2/2)

[Jiawen Stefanie Zhu @stef_zjw]

Immigrant children and their grandparents living in another country presents an interesting case of people sharing a common language, but only partially. In our #GI2025 poster, we analyzed their remote communication patterns and more: https://t.co/sRTVSUqhPW. (1/2)

[Jiawen Stefanie Zhu @stef_zjw]

Does linguistics accommodation theory apply to human-agent communication? Turns out users' multilingual style preferences are NOT always inferable from their own language use. Direct interface control might help. More in my #GI2025 paper w. @jeffjianzhao: https://t.co/b7C4wEaThU

[Rock Pang @rockpang6]

I'll be presenting "Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI" **Wed, 30 Apr, 2:10 PM - 3:40 PM** at 📍G401📍 Come to the #CHI2025 paper session "Future of HCI and Research Practices" for all the wonderful papers! Let's connect and chat in Japan!! 😀

[Rock Pang @rockpang6]

🚨🚨 Excited to share that we're organizing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI'25 (STAIG@CHI'25)!! Join us if you're interested in exploring actionable strategies for AI governance through a sociotechnical lens! #HCI #CHI2025 #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #AI

[HCI & Design at UW @uwdub]

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications!

Get matched with a @uwdub faculty member for a ~9 week paid internship in the summer hosted at UW to work on HCI research.

Deadline is 1/31.

Please share with your students! Link below ➡️

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (April 27 or 28, Singapore). We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

📄 Paper Formats: 2-page (tiny), 4-page (short), & 9-page (long)

🗓️ Key Dates: Tentative Submission Deadline: Feb 3, 2025 (AoE). Workshop Day: April 27 or 28, 2025

💠Topics:
🔸Position papers and roadmaps for alignment research
🔸Specifying human values, cognition, and societal norms
🔸RLHF and advanced algorithms, interactive/customizable alignment methods
🔸AI safety, interpretability, scalable oversight, and steerability
🔸Red teaming, benchmarks, metrics, and human evaluation for alignment
🔸Dynamic human-AI co-evolvement and societal impact

🌟Speakers: @_beenkim, @bradamyers, @fraukolos, @HungyiLee2, @RichardMCNgo, @danbohus, @Pavel_Izmailov

👫Organizers: @huashen218, @ziqiao_ma, @reshmigh, @tknearem, @lxieyang, @tongshuangwu, @andresmh, @Diyi_Yang, @ABosselut, @furongh, @tanmit, @sled_ai, Marti A. Hearst, @dawnsongtweets, @yangli169

✍️ Interested in joining our Program Committee to help review? Apply here! https://t.co/onwSzxIu0j

Join us in advancing the Human-AI Alignment research together🌟!

#ICLR2025 #AIAlignment #HCI #NLP #Speech #ComputerVision

[Jian Zhao @jeffjianzhao]

Busy 🐝 Oct! WatVis’ers are touring around the world to show off their work! Melbourne-Pittsburgh-☁️-Vancouver: 1 Ubicomp @shimon 2 UIST papers+1 UIST poster+1 VIS poster @ryanyen22 1 VIS XAI workshop @yuzhe_you 2 ISS papers @AlanWu @PaulGege What a month! @UWCheritonCS @uwhci

[Rock Pang @rockpang6]

Check out our paper that makes geo visualization accessible for screen reader users at #VIS @ieeevis!

[Yuzhe Y. @yuzhe_you]

🎉 Excited to present our interactive explainable, "Panda or Gibbon? A Beginner's Introduction to Adversarial Attacks", tomorrow at the 7th #VISxAI Workshop during #VIS24! 🐼🦧

🔗 Explore the explainable here: https://t.co/FGZe44oGve

@jeffjianzhao @uwhci @UWCheritonCS

[Ryan Yen @ryanyen22]

Can’t wait to catch up at #UIST2024! Grateful for the amazing projects and mentors that shaped my journey at @UWCheritonCS: @sangho_suh, @HaijunXia, @nonsequitoria, @jeffjianzhao!

[Sangho Suh @sangho_suh]

💼 I'm on the job market for tenure-track faculty positions or industry research scientist roles, focusing on HCI, Human-AI interaction, Creativity Support, and Educational Technology.

Please reach out if hiring or aware of relevant opportunities!

RT appreciated!

🧵 (1/n)

[Damien Masson @damienhci]

Thrilled to announce that as of today, I am an assistant professor at @UMontreal, affiliated with @Mila_Quebec and @IVADO_Qc 🎉 I am very thankful to my advisors and colleagues for all their support and guidance throughout this journey. I am very excited for this new chapter.

[Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science @UWCheritonCS]

🥳@nikhitajoshi has been named a Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science!

🌟This prestigious career-building workshop honours outstanding researchers of historically marginalized or underrepresented genders.

🔗Read more: https://t.co/s0Ys9E9uF5

#UWaterloo

[Ryan Yen @ryanyen22]

Excited about the topic of dynamic abstraction/malleable interface? Don't miss out and join us for a great discussion!
#UIST2024