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Kevin Feng

@kjfeng.me
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PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 27/05/2026
If you're attending ACM CAIS 2026 in San Jose, be sure to check out our new work led by Tanjal Shukla (@onaheater.bsky.social) on AI agents that can adapt their autonomy based on user interaction! Both Tanjal and @leijiew.bsky.social are attending, so pls stop by our poster and ask for a demo!
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 18/05/2026
I've defended! 🎉 Huge thank you to my advisors Amy and David, my all-star committee (Amy, David, Dan, Emily, and Mako), and the @hcde.uw.edu @uwcse.bsky.social @uwdub.bsky.social communities for a super rewarding PhD experience!!
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Cas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🚨The 2025 AI Agent Index is out! 🚨 Amidst recent buzz over 🦀 and NIST's new agent initiative, we find: - Selective reporting – esp. on safety - Almost all agents backend just 3 model families - Many agents don’t ID themselves as bots online - Big US/China gaps - And more…
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 26/11/2025
I'll be giving a talk at the #NeurIPS2025 RegML workshop Dec. 7th! I'll also be at the post-AGI workshop on the 3rd and will generally hang around the conference in between. Say hi if you're also around! 👋
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I'll be at #neurips2025 briefly for the workshop weekend, specifically the Algorithmic Collective Action workshop and Regulatable ML workshop (where @kjfeng.me was selected to give an oral for his workshop paper on regulating agent UIs!). LMK if you're around!
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Alicia Guo @aliciaguo.com · 09/09/2025
earlier this summer I published my first paper of my phd! ✨ a qualitative study on how creative writers are using AI in their writing and what their strategies were in order to align with their personal writing values
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 01/08/2025
📢 New paper, published by @knightcolumbia.org We often talk about AI agents augmenting vs. automating work, but how exactly can different configurations of human-agent interaction look like? We introduce a 5-level framework for AI agent autonomy to unpack this. 🧵👇
Screenshot of a paper on a webpage, with a figure showing 5 levels of autonomy for AI agents and the tradeoff between user involvement and agent autonomy as the levels increase.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 28/07/2025
In an essay for our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @kjfeng.me, @axz.bsky.social (both of @socialfutureslab.bsky.social), & David W. McDonald outline a framework for levels of #AI agent autonomy that can be used to support the responsible deployment of AI agents. knightcolumbia.org/content/leve...
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Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 27/04/2025
Excited to kick off the first workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at #chi2025 (STAIG@CHI'25) with a morning poster session in a full house! Looking forward to more posters, discussions, and our keynote in the afternoon. Follow our schedule at chi-staig.github.io!
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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 25/04/2025
🤖LLMs are being integrated everywhere, but how do we ensure they're delivering meaningful user experiences? In our #chi2025 paper, we empower designers to think about this via 🎨designerly adaptation🎨 of LLMs and built a Figma widget to help! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2401.09051 🧵👇
The first page of an academic paper with a figure depicting the use of Canvil, a Figma widget for designerly adaptation of LLMs, along with the names of the 6 authors.
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Rock Pang @rockpang.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
📢 The First Workshop on Sociotechnical #AI Governance at #CHI2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! 🤩 We are super excited to invite Roel Dobbe from TU Delft for our keynote "Algorithmic Harm and Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" Join us in Yokohama or online!!
The poster for STAIG@CHI'25. The title of the poster is "Keynote: Algorithmic Harm And Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" April 27, 2025 | PACIFICO Yokohama & Online. 16:00-16:45 Japan Standard Time. The poster also includes a headshot of Roel Dobbe and his bio. "Roel Dobbe is an Assistant Professor in Technology, Policy & Management at Delft University of Technology focusing on Sociotechnical AI Systems. He received a MSc in Systems & Control from Delft (2010) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley (2018), where he received the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award. He was an inaugural postdoc at the AI Now Institute and New York University. His research addresses the integration and implications of algorithmic technologies in societal infrastructure and democratic institutions, focusing on issues related to safety, sustainability and justice. His projects are situated in various domains, including energy systems, public administration, and healthcare. Roel’s system-theoretic lens enables addressing the sociotechnical and political nature of algorithmic and artificial intelligence systems across analysis, engineering design and governance, with an aim to empower domain experts and affected communities. His results have informed various policy initiatives, including environmental assessments in the European AI Act as well as the development of the algorithm watchdog in The Netherlands."
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 21/04/2025
The First Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI 2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! We’re super excited to hold a panel with some amazing speakers to discuss why a sociotechnical approach to AI governance is so important. Learn more + see our full schedule: chi-staig.github.io
poster advertising 5 panelists from a diverse set of institutions the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance at CHI 2025
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Looking for feed creators out there to speak with us about your experience!
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 15/04/2025
Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 10/04/2025
Panel 2: AI Agents’ Democratic and Economic Impacts starts at around 11:10am ET, right after our short break. Panelists: @kjfeng.me, @peterhenderson.bsky.social, @sethlazar.org, and Daniel Susskind. Moderator: Beba Cibralic. #AIDemocraticFreedoms
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Leijie Wang @leijiew.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Can LLM prompting help social media users create and iterate on their content filters more easily? In our #CHI2025 paper, we compared in an experiment three authoring strategies: 🤖 Prompting LLM 🔎 Labeling examples for ML classifiers 📐 Authoring keyword rules (🧵1/N)
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The New Yorker says Wikipedia is a beacon of hope, with quotes from me and @mako.cc www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
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Quan Ze Chen @cqz.name · 17/03/2025
In-context learning can be an effective way to conduct value alignment of LLMs through examples, but when there are multiple pluralistic groups, are the best examples for one group also the ones for another? We explore this in our paper 🌟SPICA🌟 (🧵1/9)
Screenshot of the first page of the paper SPICA: Retrieving Scenarios for Pluralistic In-Context Alignment
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 07/03/2025
Panel 2: AI Agents’ Democratic and Economic Impacts. 11:10am ET, 4/10. Panelists: @kjfeng.me (University of Washington), @peterhenderson.bsky.social (Princeton), @sethlazar.org (@knightcolumbia.org), & Daniel Susskind (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Moderator: Beba Cibralic (RAND)
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Rock Pang @rockpang.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm honored and humbled to receive the #IBM PhD fellowship! Thank you to my advisor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, all my friends, mentors and collaborators at and outside #UW for the support and inspiration that push me to grow!! Congrats @shangbinfeng.bsky.social for the fellowship too!! #UWAllen
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are any of you content creators on YouTube or can share this with any creators on YouTube? We're looking to test out a system we've built to enable creators to make custom filters for their comments, no technical skills needed! We offer $20 for a 1 hour remote session where you can try out the tool.
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 01/03/2025
⏰😱 less than 3 days till the deadline for STAIG @ CHI'25: Sociotechnical AI Governance!! Need inspiration for topics and/or framing? Check out the 4 governance challenges and sample topics on our website 👉 chi-staig.github.io.
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a cat is playing with a laptop keyboard on a table .
Alt: a person guiding a cat's paws to play with a laptop keyboard on a table .
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Rock Pang @rockpang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨We’ve extended the STAIG #CHI2025 paper deadline to **March 3**🚨We are accepting a wide range of submission!! Come join us in Japan to discuss how you envision the future of #AIGovernance!! #AI #HCI #GenAI See our website: chi-staig.github.io
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 19/02/2025
Huge congrats to @axz.bsky.social on her 2025 Sloan Fellowship!! 🎊
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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am delighted to share this new paper on AI collaboration in Chinese news organisations, led by @qingxiaohci.bsky.social‬, which has just been accepted at #CHI25. buff.ly/4gCc7hb
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 13/02/2025
Need some more time to put together a submission for our workshop? Fear not! We've extended our deadline by two weeks to **March 3rd**! Submit your work to join a budding community for sociotechnical AI governance at CHI. Learn more: chi-staig.github.io
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STAIG @ CHI 2025
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Joseph Chang @josephc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Joint work with Amanpreet Singh @arnaik19.bsky.social @sergeyf.bsky.social @paopow.bsky.social @kylelo.bsky.social @dougdowney.bsky.social Dan Weld and more. Please check it out and give us feedback : )
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Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org · 16/01/2025
January update from the normative philosophy of computing newsletter: new CFPs, papers, workshops, and resources for philosophers working on normative questions raised by AI and computing.
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Normative Philosophy of Computing - January
Happy New Year!
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 16/01/2025
🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵
A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 09/01/2025
EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, 4/10-11, at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. We're hosting a symposium w/ @sethlazar.org exploring the risks advanced #AI systems pose to democratic freedoms and interventions to mitigate them. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...
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Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Excited to continue the conversation on AI governance at the Sociotechnical AI Governance workshop at #chi2025! Come discuss research and practice spanning purely social to purely technical (+ everything in between) approaches to making AI beneficial for and representative of society. ➡️
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Rock Pang @rockpang.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
🚨🚨 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 #techpolicy
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This will be *quite* the fun workshop. We're casting a wide net- I encourage you to submit, and join us in Tokyo or online! Happy to answer Qs!
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 23/12/2024
📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
A poster advertising the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance with a description of the workshop's core themes and faces of the organizers.
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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📣 📣 Interested in an internship on human-centred AI, human agency, AI evaluation & the impacts of AI systems? Our team/FATE MLT (Su Lin Blodgett, @qveraliao.bsky.social & I) is looking for a few summer interns 🎉 Apply by Jan 10 for full consideration: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Simona Liao @simonaliao.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics. See results in comments! 🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025
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LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research pipe...
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm. Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts! We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature! arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What is $131,742? Answer: this is how much it costs me to fund a PhD student per year for a full RAship in CS at UW (including 100% during the summer). PhD funding can be a confusing topic at US universities. Want to learn more? Take a look at our lab handbook: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Makeability Lab Handbook
Makeability Lab Handbook By Professor Jon Froehlich and lab members Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Welcome to the Makeability Lab! 👋 We are so happfy that y...
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 24/11/2024
Interested in HCI? Go follow some fantastic folks from UW @uofwa.bsky.social—home to one of the largest HCI communities in the world! go.bsky.app/43Txz76
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 15/11/2024
Are you a researcher in CS or a CS-adjacent field who uses planning docs to organize your research? Want to try out our new AI agent-powered system for working with research planning docs in a paid user study? Details and sign up here! forms.gle/TGzKFaFYs6x7...
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Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
If you're attending #CSCW2024, check out this work which will be presented at noon on Monday by @ruotongw.bsky.social ! Our paper proposes a design concept 🌉meeting bridges🌉, or information artifacts that facilitate post-meeting understanding and collaboration. Arxiv link: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03259
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Kevin @kjfeng.bsky.social and Lawrence presenting their work! #chi2024
Two speakers behind a podium next to a big screen showing a title slide for the paper
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 22/02/2024
Concerned about what’s real vs fake, esp after seeing Sora videos? In a new blog post, I (w/ Jina Yoon & @axz.bsky.social) summarize our recent research with the C2PA on how media provenance standards impact credibility perceptions in social media feeds: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/02/21/p...
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Can provenance save us from a barrage of synthetic media?
While provenance can indeed help people better calibrate trust and accuracy perceptions of media, it can also come with its own risks of misinterpretation
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Meta is rolling out labels for genAI media! See our recent paper studying the design and impact of provenance indicators - we found they help ppl spot deceptive media w/ some caveats. w/ @kjfeng.bsky.social and the C2PA UX working group: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... about.fb.com/news/2024/02...
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Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads | Meta
Nick Clegg offers a new approach to identifying and labeling AI-generated content.
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 01/02/2024
Hi! I (+ @axz.bsky.social and a couple others) am conducting a study on new tools for content curation in social media feeds, esp Bluesky! We’d love to have you participate. It’ll take around 45 minutes and you’ll get a $20 USD gift card. More details + sign up here: forms.gle/yrAzteTqFqMP....
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Feed Curation Study Interest Form
Hi! 👋 We are researchers at the University of Washington exploring end-user tools for feed curation on social media. We are conducting a study to collect feedback on new tools for content curation ...
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
I participated in an interview with a group of fantastic UW scholars of social media for UW News! 🤩 We talk about problems with large, centralized social media and whether the fragmentation we're seeing of today's social media landscape has been beneficial: www.washington.edu/news/2023/10...
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How can social media be better? Four UW researchers compare strategies
The turmoil at large tech platforms has many people reconsidering what they want out of social media. Four researchers at the University of Washington are exploring different approaches to improve...
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
And @kjfeng.bsky.social gave a talk on his collaboration with the C2PA UX task force investigating how end users interpret and react to media provenance indicators embedded in social media, particularly on trust and accuracy. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Great job everyone!
Kevin in front of the room with a slide next to him and a projector in front of him.
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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Next @cqz.bsky.social gave a talk on Wed on targeted interventions to reduce uncertainty in judgments. Paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... He also discussed how it fits into his broader research trajectory and agenda, as he's headed onto the job market this year!
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