I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I’ll be working on large language models, computational social science, and AI & society—and will be recruiting PhD students. Apply to work with me!

My amazing husband Tiziano Piccardi is also joining Johns Hopkins University CS as an Assistant Professor, working on social computing&HCI 💙. We’re beyond excited for this next chapter. I'm so grateful to my mentors and collaborators! Dan Jurafsky Bob West SPARQ Ashton Anderson

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I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

JHU stonks up bigly this year (work with Tiziano!)

What if LLMs could learn your habits and preferences well enough (across any context!) to anticipate your needs? In a new paper, we present the General User Model (GUM): a model of you built from just your everyday computer use. 🧵

This is super cool

General User Models (GUMs) create *strikingly* good, private models of you.

crazy stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My GUM told me I need to go on vacation

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I am doing something silly by testing whether I can remember and deliver multiple talks on the same day on different slices of my group’s research. If you are at #CVPR2025 on June 11th, come to one or all of them :D 9:05am: Behaviors & bodies: how they shape one another

Chatbot companions are going to be our society's next moral panic, I suspect. Work by Yutong Zhang suggests that people turn to them especially when they lack outside social support.

done by Vincent Cavez!! 👏👏

Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!

Since 2018, Stanford HAI has been making a significant impact in advancing research at Stanford. One of its mechanisms is through the Hoffman-Yee Research Grants, designed to launch “asteroid shot” ideas that address some of our biggest challenges. hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-…

We're doing a follow-up workshop @ CSCW! Positech 2: Design for Hope will explore how design methodologies can help us envision and achieve positive social futures AND how these processes cultivate hope in the face of otherwise overwhelming challenges. Hope to see you there!

BREAKING NEWS! Most people aren’t prompting models with IMO problems :) They’re prompting with tasks that need more context, like “plz make talk slides.” In an ACL oral, I’ll cover challenges in human-LM grounding (in 60K+ real interactions) & introduce a benchmark: RIFTS. 🧵