I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication! This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.

Gave a talk at PGH TechFest on The Promise and Perils of AI for Products. I summarize capabilities of AI today, challenges (trust, explainability, human agency), and recommendations.

🚀💫 I’m on the job market for academic (tenure-track) and industry research positions! 👋I am a Postdoc Fellow at @hcii.cmu.edu working at the intersection of human-AI interaction, cognitive science, responsible AI, design, and social computing. I earned my PhD from @gtresearch.bsky.social in 2024.

Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by @cylab.bsky.social ! Endless thanks to my advisors @sauvik.me and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.

Congrats to my student @hankhplee.bsky.social for being recognized as one of the 2025 CyLab Presidential fellows! cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/1...

Two spuddies will be at #CSCW2025: @yuxiwu.com will present our work on designing citizen harm reporting interfaces for privacy (and is on the job market!). Isadora Krsek will present our work on user reactions to AI-identified self-disclosure risks online.

Honored to be one of the recipients of the Google Academic Research Awards this year! @alan-ritter.bsky.social and I will further our work on exploring how AI can be used to help users make safe disclosure decisions online. research.google/programs-an...

tl;dr: i'm on the academic job market; say hi at #CSCW2025! i'm a distinguished postdoc fellow at northeastern studying how tech's deep entanglements into society have caused concrete harms to people and changed what privacy fundamentally means (is it dead? is it recoverable? how? 😨) yuxiwu.com

I'm on the job market looking for CS/ischool faculty and related positions! I'm broadly interested in doing research with policymakers and communities impacted by AI to inform and develop mitigations to harms and risks. If you've included any of my work in syllabi or policy docs please let me know!

Don't miss 3 TechFest sessions with @hcii.cmu.edu faculty: -"What can AI do for UX? Separating fact from fiction" Sauvik Das @sauvik.me -"The Promise and Peril of AI for Products" Jason Hong @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social -"Rapid Research Methods: Assumption Artifacts" Raelin Musuraca @raelinm.bsky.social

The 1st Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security (#HAIPS2025) workshop at CCS will happen on Oct 17th! We have two amazing keynote speakers (@pgk.bsky.social and @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social), and a slate of insightful and provocative papers. Agenda here: haips.com/#dates #CCS2025 #AcademicSky

Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already. Some (updated) tips I wrote about this: sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...

📣 Accepted to #AIES2025: What do the audio datasets powering generative audio models actually contain? (led by @willie-agnew.bsky.social) Answer: Lots of old audio content that is mostly English, often biased, and of dubious copyright / permissioning status. Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/65/s...

🔐 New #UIST2025 paper by @kyzyl.me Imago Obscura uses #vision #language #models to understand user #privacy concerns, improve their awareness of image privacy risks, and their ability to address these risks. 📜: sauvik.me/papers/66/se... 🔗: cmu-spuds.github.io/imago-obscura/ #PrivacySky

Honestly, now I want to write a piper titled: "[mention a specific relevant paper by them]"

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

How does "AI search" differ from standard web search? Can you trust it? I spoke to Jon Reed at CNET about this: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Hi all. I am delighted to announce our first Keynote speaker for the 2025 Summit on Responsible, Computing, AI, and Society: Dr. Rumman Chowdhury rcais.github.io

@sauvik.me and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring! If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@soupsconference.bsky.social)? If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :) www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Who are all you people searching for my thumbprint?!

One of the largest text-image datasets is full of PII, including credit card numbers and birth certificates. Excellent writeup by @eileenguo.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1... Read our full audit and legal analysis arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185

I've been receiving a new kind of email lately: people who GPT has convinced to email professors in order to get their "deeply insightful" conversations w/ GPT published. It's a weird confluence of AI sycophancy + human loneliness and delusions of grandeur.

Usability is like security: if you don't design around it from the very start, when you try to patch it on, unless you get lucky, you'll discover all kinds of architectural commitments that make it really hard, and you'll always play catch-up.

As of today, I am officially Associate Professor* at @hcii.cmu.edu. Surreal — I was out of my depth when I started. Couldn't have done it without my incredible students — the true brains of the operation — and the support of my mentors. Thank you all! * not yet tenured, because CMU

new paper incoming at USENIX Security 2025 📬 "Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision" really grateful to have worked with @hongshen.bsky.social, Fei Fang, and a team of amazing undergrads and community collaborators on this project yuxiwu.com/pubs/sec25_h...

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Hyped for HAIPS 2025! 👏 haips.com #HAIPS2025 #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #Security

📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social and @pgk.bsky.social Submit your: - Original papers - Encore papers - SoK papers - Vision papers by June 20th! 💻http://haips.com

🚨 New Paper! 🚨 “Groups that communicate diverse information make wiser decisions.” Right? Not always—for LLMs, just like humans. We bring this scrutiny to AI by introducing the Hidden Profile paradigm to assess how multi-agent LLMs actually reason together. arxiv.org/abs/2505.115... [1/n]

😬In sims, 1/100 Asian-coded agents will join a protest if told they shouldn't. All 100 Black-coded agents will join anyway. New #Facct2025 paper led by @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social Actions Speak Louder than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models sauvikdas.com/papers/64/se...

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

Announcing the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security (#HAIPS2025) at #CCS2025 Send us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and papers you just had rejected from #usesec25 or #ICML2025 📢 The CFP is out! 🌊 haips.com #AcademicSky

@cylab.bsky.social wrote a great article on @hankhplee.bsky.social's #chi2025 paper on Purpose Mode. He presented it today and did a great job! PurposeMode reduces distraction on social media from 28% -> 7%. You can use it, too! It's open source :) cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/04...

Yokohama (and virtual attendance), here we come! ✈️ We're excited to share that @cmu.edu authors contributed to 50+ papers (with 12 award-winning!) at the #CHI2025 Conference. Check out this overview of our involvement here ➡️ hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-chi... Stay tuned, more CHI highlights to come.

En route to #chi2025! 1) Sunday: I will present a keynote talk at the computational UI workshop — the first public discussion of what we're doing at fuguUX, the company I'm co-founding with @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social . "Towards Smart, Automated UI Assessments at Scale" 1/3

Thank you, Dr. @logas.me for the work you do to ensure that privacy is useful and effective for everyone! It was an honor to be part of your journey :)

(Reposts appreciated!) Do you work on user-facing Artificial Intelligence (AI) products? We would like to hear from you! Please fill out this survey to sign up for the study: cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Peak experience: on a bike, breezing through congested car traffic in a parallel, separated bike lane during rush hour while yelling out "see ya later, suckas"

I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.

Welp, my NSF grant in progress (about content moderation) was just abruptly canceled, effective today.

My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees: Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Ironically, the foundational papers in many fields are more often on the relevance end of the spectrum than on the rigor end, because these papers usually define a new field. Thus, many foundational papers likely wouldn't get in to the big conferences of their fields if submitted today. (4/4)

This is commonly known as the "rigor-relevance" tradeoff / paradox / framework. To be highly rigorous, you necessarily have to reduce the scope of your work so you can have more control over the method and make more careful, strongly defensible claims. (1/4)

My third Ph.D. student, Jacob Logas, successfully defended his dissertation yesterday! Jacob developed a framework for creating computationally aesthetic anti-facial recognition perturbations on images. Details to come! He will be joining Franklin & Marshall as an assistant professor. Congrats!

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Carnegie Mellon as an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (with a courtesy joint appointment in Social and Decision Sciences) in 2026!