Rock Pang
rockpang.bsky.social
Rock Pang
@rockpang.bsky.social
CS PhD @UWCSE | hci, human-ai, accessibility, the societal impact of tech | Prev @MSFTResearch Intern, @Macalester

Website: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ypang2/
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Congratulations to #UWAllen Ph.D. grads Ashish Sharma and @sewonm.bsky.social‬, ‪2024 @acm.org ‬Doctoral Dissertation Award honorees! Sharma won for #AI tools for mental health; Min received honorable mention for efficient, flexible language models. #ThisIsUW news.cs.washington.edu/2025/06/04/a...
‘Bold,’ ‘positive’ and ‘unparalleled’: Allen School Ph.D. graduates Ashish Sharma and Sewon Min recognized with ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards - Allen School News
Each year, the Association for Computing Machinery recognizes the best Ph.D. dissertations in computer science with its Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ashish Sharma (Ph.D., ‘24), now a senior applied sc...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance!

#CHI2025
April 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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!
April 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Super excited about this panel discussion!! #chi2025
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
April 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
📢 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!!
April 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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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)
March 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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⏰ DEADLINE TODAY for STAIG @ #CHI2025 workshop ⏰ Submit a position or short research papers of up to *four* pages today!! Please check out our website for more sample topics around AI Governance: chi-staig.github.io

#AI #AIGovernance #CHI #HCI #LLM #AISafety
March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨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
📢📢 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
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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🚨ATTN: Are you submitting an LLM-powered contribution to CHI?🚨 Consider these questions from our review of LLM-related papers before you submit camera-ready! 👇 (New paper!)
🤔 Interested in how #HCI thinks about using #LLMs, or looking to understand best practices for human-LLM interaction?

🚨🚨New paper: Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review 🧵
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🤔 Interested in how #HCI thinks about using #LLMs, or looking to understand best practices for human-LLM interaction?

🚨🚨New paper: Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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📢📢 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
December 23, 2024 at 6:47 PM
🚨🚨 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
📢📢 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
December 24, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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I'm on Amazon! My book will be out in June and until then...I swear I'm going to go crazy if anyone changes the name of social networking sites, or invents a new one, one more time.
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November 27, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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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
November 24, 2024 at 5:49 AM