Starting from September 16, 2025, I am putting my talk slides in this Google drive folder. Feel free to take a look!
2025
Opportunities & Challenges in Automating Mechanistic Interpretability
Structured Creativity in Science: AI for Hypothesis Generation and Research Ideation
Alignment Beyond Human Preferences: Use Human Goals to Guide AI towards Complementary AI
2024
The year that has been forgotten. I will hopefully remember that year in the future.
Slides for Human+AI conference in 2022
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Some Very Human Challenges in Responsible AI
Berkeley Dietvorst, Aligning algorithms with people’s prediction preferences
Krzysztof Gajos, Human Cognitive (Dis)Engagement During AI-Assisted Decision Making
Danny Oppenheimer, Decision Science the Age of Augmented Cognition
Marc Berman, Using Theory, Sensors, and Machines to Quantify the Nature of Social Interactions
Older talks
Towards Human-Centered AI: Understanding and Improving Human Decision Making through Explanations.
- Columbia University, 2023.
- Georgia Tech, 2023.
- MIT, 2023.
- University of Washington, 2023.
- Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, 2023.
Three Lessons Towards Human-Centered Explanations. Keynote at the Artificial Intelligence & Human Computer Interaction workshop at ICML 2023.
The Future of AI is Human-Centered. Keynote at the Research Day at the Governors State University, 2023.
Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions.
- Stanford University, 2023.
- Cambridge University, 2023.
- University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023.
Tutorial on Human-Centered Evaluation of Explanations. NAACL 2022.
Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions.
- University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
- University of Toronto, 2022.
- New York University, 2022.
- University of Texas at Austin, 2022.
- TTIC, 2022.
Language, Information, and Decision Making.
- Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute. 2022.
- Brown Bag at Booth Healthcare Initiative. 2022.
Why are Explanations Falling Short of their Promises? AAAI workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence. 2022.
Towards Human-Centered AI: Complementing Humans with AI. The Academic Fringe Festival on Designing at Scale with Human-AI Collaboration. 2022.
Characterizing the ``Value’’ of Information, Toyota Technological Institute, 2021
Towards Human-Centered AI: Harnessing Explanations to Improve Human Decision Making
- University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2021.
- Lunch for CAPP at the University of Chicago, 2021.
Towards Human-Centered AI: Harnessing Explanations to Improve Human Decision Making in Discovery Tasks, the second ELLIS HCML workshp at ICLR, 2021
Towards Human-Centered AI: Understanding Human Production and Consumption of Explanations
- University of Maryland, 2021
- University of Michigan, 2021
Towards Human-Centered AI: Understanding Language in Social Contexts
- University of Chicago, 2020
- CMU, 2020
- Google, 2020
- Microsoft Research, 2020
- Yale University, 2020
- UIUC, 2020
- University of Washington, 2020
Towards Human-Centered AI: Harness AI to Improve Human Decision Making
- Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2020
- Tsinghua University, 2020
- USC AI Rising Stars Symposium, 2019.
Towards Human-Centered AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Natural Language Processing in Policy, Deploying Machine Learning Tools for Public Policy Impact, APPAM pre-conference workshop, 2019
The Promise of Human-centered AI for Addressing Challenges in Literacy, Facebook, 2019
Towards Human-Centered AI: Understanding Language in Social Contexts, ASAPP, 2019
The Future of Brand Engagement: Community, Trust and Digital Discourse, Reddit, 2018
Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction
- Caltech, 2018
- Boulder NLP meetup, 2018
It Takes Two to Tango: Understanding the Effects of Wording through Online Interactions
- Fudan University, 2018
- Toutiao AI Lab, 2018
- Harbin Institute of Technology, 2018
- Zhejiang University, 2017
Wandering Individuals and Emerging Communities in a World of Communities
- Tsinghua University (Sociology), 2018
- INFO/HCC Seminar at University of Colorado Boulder, 2017
Winning arguments: Interaction dynamics and persuasion strategies in good-faith online discussions
- the 24th Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference, 2018
- Colorado Data Science Team, 2017
Characterizing the Ecosystems of Ideas in Texts[(long version)]
- Quantitative Methods Workshop, 2018
- Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
- Tsinghua University, 2018
- Computational Semantics Group Seminar, 2017
- UW-MS NLP Symposium, 2017
Guest lecture on “Computational Pragmatics” in CSEP 517
Phrasing Matters: An Interactive Session on Message Virality Based on Twitter
- the 24th Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference, 2018
Online Social Interactions: A Lens on Humans and a World for Humans
- MIT EECS, 2016
- CMU Computer Science Department, 2016
- CMU Heinz College, 2016
- Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, 2016
- University of Michigan, 2016
- University of Colorado at Boulder, 2016
- Rice University, 2016
- Northeastern University, 2016
It takes two to tango: Understanding the effects of language via “natural experiments”
- AI Seminar, Cornell University, 2014
More than Accuracy: Interpretability
- MLDG, Cornell University, 2013
User-level Sentiment Analysis Incorporating Social Networks
- Tsinghua University, 2011
- Microsoft Research Asia NLP group seminar, 2011
Conference talks
Talk it up or play it down? (Un)expected correlations between (de-)emphasis and recurrence of discussion points in consequential U.S. economic policy meetings at Text as Data 2016
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions at WWW 2016
Lost in Propagation? Unfolding News Cycles from the Source at ICWSM 2016
All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement at WWW 2015
The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter at ACL 2014
On the Interplay between Social and Topical Structure at ICWSM 2013
Instant Foodie: Predicting Expert Ratings From Grassroots at CIKM 2013
To Each His Own: Personalized Content Selection based on Text Comprehensibility at WSDM 2012
User-level Sentiment Analysis Incorporating Social Networks at KDD 2011
Social Action Tracking via Noise Tolerant Time-varying Factor Graphs at KDD 2010