Jin Ha Lee has been selected as a 2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow. This fellowship is awarded to distinguished scholars who actively collaborate with Ewha faculty in research and education. Ewha Womans University, one of the world’s largest women’s educational institutions, is in South Korea.
Congratulations to this year’s iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) recipients!
· Lindah Kotut for Grassroots and Indigenous Guidance Towards AI for Climate.
· Alexis Hiniker for SleepStreak: Redesigning the Smartphone to Support Healthy Sleep Habits.
Seokhyun Hwang (PhD Student), advised by Jacob Wobbrock, received a Seed for Science Fellowship of $26,929 from the De Luca Foundation to support his research titled “Dynamic VR Rehabilitation System Utilizing Real-Time EMG-Based Biomechanical Simulation and Adaptive Game Content.”
Soham De (PhD Student) and co-authors Michiel A. Bakker, Jay Baxter, and Martin Saveski’s paper titled “Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking" was accepted to the ACM Web Conference 2025.
Chris Coward and co-authors Nisha Devasia and Jin Ha Lee’s forthcoming paper titled “Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-Design with Two Communities” was accepted to the Digital Games Research Association International Conference (DIGRA) 2025.
Lane D. Koughan (PhD Student) and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education” was accepted to the Digital Games Research Association International Conference (DIGRA) 2025.
Jin Ha Lee and co-authors Nisha Devasia, and Runhua Zhao’s (PhD Student) forthcoming paper titled “Does the Story Matter? Applying Narrative Theory to an Educational Misinformation Escape Room Game” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25).
Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Kshitish Ghate, Isaac Slaughter (PhD Student), Kyra Wilson (PhD Student), and Mona Diab’s paper titled “Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders.” was accepted to the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).
Hua Shen and Tanu Mitra are leading the organizing the “Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop” at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, as well as a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the same name at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25).
Emily M. Bender gave a fireside chat titled “UW Libraries Hacking the Academy” where she discussed the creation of her podcast “Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000,” in the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons.
Chirag Shah was a panelist for a talk titled “AI Disruption: Embracing the Change?” organized by BMO and Ai2 at the Allen Institute.
