Tanu Mitra

Assistant Professor @UW_iSchool. Computer Science, PhD @GeorgiaTech
Social computing researcher studying online misinformation. Previously @VT_CS, @gtcomputing.

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Proud of @navreeetkaur for spearheading this work!
As LLMs become trusted advisors, evaluating responses without considering the social context of the asker is a major blind spot—especially in sensitive domains. Look forward to the discussions it will spark #ACL2026 @uw_ischool

[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? 🧵

[Navreet Kaur @navreeetkaur]

📄 Check out our paper for more: https://t.co/O8fNJNcwOW

Come say hi at our #ACL2026 poster on Sunday (11-12:30pm) + talk about evals, user modeling, human-AI interaction! :)

Thanks to my amazing collaborators @hayounggjung Hoda @shravika_mittal and mentors @munmun10 @tanmit

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

@michelle123lam Congrats!! They are so lucky to have you.

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

@uw_ischool

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

This is incredible @hua and Nick. So proud of you! It was a real honor to work with you this past year!

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

This is incredible @hua and Nick. So proud of you! It was a real honor to work with you this past year!

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

Truly honored and grateful to receive this inspiring #OutstandingPaperAward at #EMNLP2025! 🏆
Heartfelt thanks to dear @tanmit and Nick for such an enjoyable and wonderful collaboration💗. Huge thanks to our amazing general chair @dirk_hovy, program chairs @VioletNPeng, Carolyn Rose, @c_christodoulop, @Tanmoy_Chak, and all SACs, ACs, organizers & volunteers💗. Also deeply thankful to everyone I met and learned from at #EMNLP — you all made #EMNLP2025 in beautiful Suzhou unforgettable!!🌸

@nyuniversity @UW @nyushanghai @uwischool @nyutandon @uwcse

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

@huashen218 Congrats Hua and co-authors! Amazing work as always.

[Hayoung Jung @hayounggjung]

🚨YouTube is a key source of health info, but it’s also rife with dangerous myths on opioid use disorder (OUD), a leading cause of death in the U.S.

To understand the scale of such misinformation, our #EMNLP2025 paper introduces MythTriage, a scalable system to detect OUD myth🧵

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

China leading the way for ACL submissions while United States witnessing a significant drop from last year #ACL2025

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Figuring it out what’s it like attending the largest ACL conference. Also returning to attend my first ACL as a faculty. The last one I attended was almost half a decade ago as a PhD student #ACL2025NLP

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Woohoo! Congrats Hayoung! Such a well deserved award. It was a treat to work with you all these years and I can’t wait to see all the awesome things you are going to do next in your PhD journey!

[Hayoung Jung @hayounggjung]

Life update: I graduated with my M.S. @uwcse and received the outstanding master’s thesis award, advised by @tanmit!

I am truly grateful for the amazing mentorship from Prof. Tanu Mitra and many others who have supported and taught me 💜💛

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

🚀 BiAlign 🚀 Thrilled to announce that 72 papers have been accepted to our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop at #ICLR2025 & #CHI SIG! 🎉 Huge thanks to 80+ reviewers for their invaluable contributions! 🙏 @iclr_conf @acm_chi

📜 Accepted Papers: Check them out: https://t.co/RrDvGcljsC (Camera-ready papers in April—stay tuned!)

👏 Reviewer Appreciation: Immense gratitude to our reviewers for their thoughtful feedback! Acknowledge our committee: https://t.co/DsaP0JVz6q

📅 BiAlign Schedule: Mark your calendars for April 28, 2025! Join us in Singapore (ICLR) & Yokohama (CHI) for insightful discussions. Tentative schedule: https://t.co/8oxo8v2Qsi

🏆 Awards & Travel Grants: We’ll announce 5 awards during the workshop and potentially offer prizes & travel grants. More details & gold sponsorship reveal coming soon!

💖 A heartfelt thank you to our amazing organizers team! Special appreciation to @ziqiao_ma & @reshmigh expertly contributing to our review optimization, @tanmit, @sled_ai, @ABosselut, @yangli169, and Prof. Marti A. Hearst for invaluable guidance on reviews & awards, @tongshuangwu, @tknearem, @lxieyang, & @yun_huang for making our CHI SIG events a success, and @Diyi_Yang, @andresmh, @furongh, @dawnsongtweets, @uw_ischool, & @michigan_AI for incredible support in our events! 🙌

✨Many organizers and I will attend ICLR & CHI 2025 in person — can’t wait to see you in Singapore & Yokohama for exciting discussions & fun! 🎊 Join us! 🚀🌏 #BiAlign #HumanAIAlingment #AIAlignment

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Starting right now in our RAISE event @ecekamar keynote on AI agents. So much to learn in this fast moving field! @uw_ischool @uwcse

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Happening now in Zillow Commons, UW campus - our Winter RAISE exposition event. If you are nearby, do attend.
https://t.co/AQFWKYR7zY

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

@bryan_johnson Do you have plans to launch outside the US, like in India and can this technology be used for patients with TBI? I have someone in my family with TBI and this would be a huge help. Regulatory approvals outside the US is also easier. DM if this is something you'd like to explore.

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

Interested in Human-AI Alignment research and want to workshop the complex and evolving challenges in this space? Consider submitting your work at our interdisciplinary #ICLR2025 workshop @iclr_conf & #CHI2025 SIG.
https://t.co/advn4IlZTC
Deadline Feb 15th.

[Tanu Mitra @tanmit]

@skairam @OpenAI This is so cool! Congrats Sanjay

[Sang Won Lee @snaglee2401]

Recommender systems can learn from how r\ifyoulikeblank users solicit recommendations from each other. Our @ACM_CSCW paper led by @momen_bh shows unique recommendation forms (e.g., a movie that captures Lofi hip-hop vibe) w\ @Donghan9508, Jelson, @tanmit https://t.co/nZvS3BYbQN

[Preetam Dammu @preetams7]

2️⃣ Unveiling Covert Harms in LLM Conversations
📍 Brickell | Nov 14 | 10:30-12 PM
🔗 https://t.co/WFDDLNZ9rb

(W/ @hayounggjung, @anjali_singh35, @monojitchou, @tanmit)

Excited to explore these topics together – please join us at our sessions!

#EMNLP2024 #EMNLP
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[Amy J. Ko 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🐈 @amyjko]

The @UW_iSchool is hiring this year! Tenure track open area, tenure track LIS, teaching track data science, teaching track LIS. Come join us in the bustling, drizzly, booming Pacific Northwest! https://t.co/TzzBdAV7mh

[Joe Walther @joewalther]

“Information Sharing and Content Framing across Multiple Platforms and Functional Roles That Exemplify Social Processes of Online Hate Groups” by @shruti_ph and @tanmit examines how traditional, offline hate groups use Facebook and Twitter/X to create an online ecosphere of hate, misinformation, and conspiracies, to grow their movements, cultivate new recruits, and spread their dogma. In Walther & Rice, eds., Social Processes of Online Hate, Routledge 2024, https://t.co/wS0gvwZWbr