Tanu Mitra was awarded a $649,971 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “Understanding the Effects of Large Language Models on Online Community Information Work.”  

Marika Cifor and co-author Anna Lauren Hoffman’s paper titled “What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?” was published in the Journal of Women in Culture and Society.  

Chirag Shah and co-author Ryen White’s paper titled “Agents Are Not Enough,” was published in IEEE Computer. 

Hua Shen (Postdoctoral Scholar) and co-authors Nicholas Clark (PhD Student) and Tanu Mitra’s paper titled “Mind the Value-Action Gap: Do LLMs Act in Alignment with Their Values?” was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) 

Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (PhD Student) and co-authors Ruiqi Chen, Mingyuan Zhong, and Jacob Wobbrock’s paper titled “SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides,” was accepted to the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘25).  

Tanu Mitra and co-authors Hayoung Jung, Shravika Mittal, Ananya Aatreya (Undergraduate Student), Navreet Kaur (PhD Student), and Munmun De Choudhury’s paper titled “MythTriage: Scalable order Myths on a Video-Sharing Platform” was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). 

Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors Xiyuan Shen, Seokhyun Hwang (PhD Student), Junhan (Judy) Kong (PhD Student), Alexandre Filipowicz, Andrew Best, Jean Costa, Scott Carter and James Fogarty’s paper titled “Touchscreens in Motion: Quantifying the Impact of Cognitive Load on Distracted Drivers” was accepted to the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘25). This paper was written in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI).  

Melanie Walsh and co-authors Sriharsh Bhyravujjula, Anna Preus, and Maria Antoniak’s paper titled “so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs” was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) 

Melanie Walsh and co-authors Neel Gupta, Daniella Maor, Emily Backstrom, Karalee Harris, and Hongyuan Dong’s paper titled “The Canon in Circulation: Tracking the Reception of Norton Anthology Authors in Library Checkout Data,” was accepted to Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2025).  

Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Pragmatic Pathways: Transforming Information Access with Transparency, Trust, and Truth” at the AI for Libraries Symposium. 

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “Beyond Chatbots: Building Personal, Proactive, and Purposeful AI Agents” at Tsinghua University.  

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “AI Primer and Copyright Use Cases” for myLawCLE.  

Ben Lee wrote a longform essay on the topic of AI and Holocaust Memory titled “Uncanny Testimony” published on Longreads. 

Preetam Dammu (PhD Student), Hayoung Jung, Anjali Singh, Monojit Choudhury, and Tanu Mitra’s paper titled “’They are Uncultured’: Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations” was cited in an MIT Technology Review article titled “OpenAI is Huge in India. Its Models are Steeped in Caste Bias.”