Blake clinched its fourth consecutive title at the 2023 state debate tournament. For the first time in the school’s long and illustrious debate history, both teams competing in this year’s final round were from Blake! Learn more at blake.mn/debate

We're #UMNProud of Lana Yarosh and her team, consisting of professors Stevie Chancellor is elsewhere (see pinned), Joe Konstan, Kangjie Lu, and Loren Terveen, for being awarded a $400,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation for their research! Learn more: z.umn.edu/LanaGrant

My Communications of the ACM Contributed Article, "Toward Practices for Human-Centered Machine Learning" is now live! With a video summary! Quick 🧵about its contributions below... cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023…

Folks working in HCI and/or ML *MUST* read this. I imagine this will become one of those "Distance Matters" or "Beyond Being There" types of papers that we continue to reference for its insights for a very long time. Kudos to Stevie Chancellor is elsewhere (see pinned) for doing this amazing work!

Did you know the amazing social computing conference #CSCW2023 is taking place in person (+ hybrid) for the first time since 2019? If you're thinking of attending, the submission deadline for posters, workshops, panels, SIGs, demos, and DC is May 11! cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php…

Oh yeah, looking forward to welcoming everyone!

This screenshot makes me happy #cscw #cscw2023

Gotta listen to this to see what Stevie Chancellor is elsewhere (see pinned) had to say! mprnews.org/episode/2023/0…

Go go Ava! Presenting her systematic review on video sharing platforms at #chi2023 that points to new ideas for video sharing research! This was done as an undergrad (with Shuo Niu), so extra impressive. Love this diagram 😍

So proud of Ash Milton for presenting our work on TikTok and mental health and the FYP to a packed house at #CHI2023!!!

In January, we opened a new student services center that includes the Lind Hall Diversity Wall! This installation is meant to highlight the diverse voices that contributed to the computer science field over the years but were not recognized. Learn more: z.umn.edu/LindHallWallSt…

We're #UMNProud of professor Joe Konstan for leading a $2 million research project granted by the U.S. National Science Foundation! The project will study human-centered AI for a shared news recommender system! Learn more here: z.umn.edu/KonstanNSFGrant

While I'm here, more on that LR: We reviewed a decade of HCI research on video-sharing platforms (think YouTube, TikTok). We also outline past work *and* inspire future research directions in a cool framework! What'll be your next VSP study? The paper: bit.ly/3oWa81U

This week's Computing Figure is Frances Allen, a computer scientist who was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow and to win the Turing Award! Learn more about our Computing Figures wall display here: z.umn.edu/LindHallWall

Associate professor Yaoyi Chiang joined the #CSCICommunity in 2021. He teaches courses about data mining and spatial AI, which his research is also focused on! Learn more about Yao-Yi here: z.umn.edu/MeetChiang #ai #datamining

So happy to work with such accomplished and wonderful people. So well deserved, Joe Konstan!!

Happy to share that I have been promoted to associate professor with tenure at the University of Minnesota. I am extremely grateful to my lovely family, awesome students, the supportive department and University. #Giveback #MinnesotaSummer

Congrats to Ruoyan Kong for defending their thesis today! Read the full thesis here: z.umn.edu/KongThesis

Thrilled and humbled to share that I'll be an Assistant Professor of CS at UMN Twin Cities from Spring 2024! Never imagined this when I moved to US from HK amid the pandemic 3yrs ago. Deep thanks to my family, advisors, cohorts, and all who have supported me. UMN Computer Science & Engineering

We hope to see everyone interested in Social Computing and CSCW in Minneapolis this October. Registration is now open!