Sandy Littletree and iSchool alumni Nicky Andrews, were recognized by the Library Journal as Change Agents in their 2025 Movers and Shakers, which represents the best of the creative, inspiring, visionary, and committed individuals who are advancing the library field.
Bingbing Wen (PhD Student) and co-authors Jihan Yao, Shangbin Feng, Chenjun Xu (MSIM Student), Yulia Tsvetkov, Bill Howe, and Lucy Lu Wang’s paper titled “Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models” is to appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Maryam Amirizaniani (PhD Student) and co-authors Shawon Sarkar (former PhD Student), and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “Towards More Personalized recommendations by Modeling Users’ Temporal Behaviors with Task-Based Graph Neural Network (TGNN).” was published in ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb).
Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Jihan Yao, Wenxuan Ding, Shangbin Feng, and Yulia Tsvetkov’s paper titled “Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only” was accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
Lisa Dirks (PhD Student) and co-authors Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Amplifying Cultural Values with Collaborative Photo Elicitation: Strengths-Focused Co-Design with Alaska Native People” was accepted to the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’ 25).
Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Varich Boonsanong, Vidhisha Balachandran, Xiaochuang Han, Shangbin Feng, and Yulia Tsvetkov’s paper titled “FACTS&EVIDENCE: An Interactive Tool for Transparent Fine-Grained Factual Verification of Machine-Generated Text,” was accepted to NAACL System Demonstrations 2025.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) had 3 papers accepted to 2025 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI) for oral presentation:
· “Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?" with Jevin D. West and Cailin O' Connor
· "Can LLM-based AI agents automate science communication?" with Jevin. D. West, Jimmy Koppel, and Tom Hope
· "Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success" with Petter Holme, Bedoor AlShebli, Yueran Duan, Qing Guan, and Talal Rahwan
Hyeyoung Ryu and co-authors J. Kim, S. Kang, and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Improving Online Communities for Stigmatized Healthcare: Countering In-Group Microaggressions and Fostering Supportive Connection” was accepted to ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Conference (CSCW 2025).
Nicole Kuhn presented her capstone research project to earn her Graduate Certificate in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Her talk was titled, “Indigenous Health Communication on Social Media: Leveraging a Deeper Analysis of U.S. Tribal Research Review Boards to Develop Research Methodologies and Ethics to Support This Essential Work.” This presentation was given at the annual Indigenous Studies Spring Symposium that is hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies in collaboration with the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
Lucy Lu Wang gave an invited talk titled “Language Technologies to Improve Access to and Use of Medical Knowledge” at the Center for Research on Computation and Society, at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Tessa Rose Campbell was invited to present a session titled “Indigenizing the Field of Librarianship” at the Sno-Isle Libraries Convention (SILCON) 2025.
Lucy Lu Wang was an invited panelist for “AI and Metascience: Current State of Play” held at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.
Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “US Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here’s What to Know,” published on CNET.