Tiziano Piccardi
@tiziano.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
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🎓 Alumni Spotlight #7: Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social
💻 Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins (@jhu.edu), exploring HCI, AI & Social Computing.
PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (Data Science Lab, Robert West).
Former Postdoc at Stanford and co-founder of Widerun, a VR + fitness startup.
💻 Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins (@jhu.edu), exploring HCI, AI & Social Computing.
PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (Data Science Lab, Robert West).
Former Postdoc at Stanford and co-founder of Widerun, a VR + fitness startup.
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🎓 Alumni Spotlight #7: Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social
💻 Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins (@jhu.edu), exploring HCI, AI & Social Computing.
PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (Data Science Lab, Robert West).
Former Postdoc at Stanford and co-founder of Widerun, a VR + fitness startup.
💻 Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins (@jhu.edu), exploring HCI, AI & Social Computing.
PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (Data Science Lab, Robert West).
Former Postdoc at Stanford and co-founder of Widerun, a VR + fitness startup.
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The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:
Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science
Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.
www.cs.jhu.edu
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:
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10 new CS professors! 🥳
@anandbhattad.bsky.social @uthsav.bsky.social @gligoric.bsky.social @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social
@anandbhattad.bsky.social @uthsav.bsky.social @gligoric.bsky.social @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social
#HopkinsDSAI welcomes 22 new faculty members, who join more than 150 DSAI faculty members across @jhu.edu in advancing the study of data science, machine learning, and #AI and translation to a range of critical and emerging fields.
ai.jhu.edu/news/data-sc...
ai.jhu.edu/news/data-sc...
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
5 fully funded visiting researcher positions in Oxford and Stanford! ‼️
Excited to launch the Institute for Decentralized AI, alongside 5 fully funded visiting researcher positions in Oxford and Stanford!
Our mission: build the protocols, standards, and tooling that make decentralized AI work in the real world.
Our mission: build the protocols, standards, and tooling that make decentralized AI work in the real world.
September 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
5 fully funded visiting researcher positions in Oxford and Stanford! ‼️
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The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs
The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...
docs.google.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
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Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!
We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!
Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
Join us in room 2.31!
We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!
Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
Join us in room 2.31!
August 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!
We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!
Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
Join us in room 2.31!
We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!
Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
Join us in room 2.31!
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Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow!
Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.
Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...
Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.
Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...
July 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow!
Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.
Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...
Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.
Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...
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#ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social would be nothing without its community. Here are some of the heroes who work hard to guarantee that authors receive useful reviews: @aldayelabeer.bsky.social @chibold.bsky.social @lespin.bsky.social @elaragon.bsky.social @shrutiphadke.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social would be nothing without its community. Here are some of the heroes who work hard to guarantee that authors receive useful reviews: @aldayelabeer.bsky.social @chibold.bsky.social @lespin.bsky.social @elaragon.bsky.social @shrutiphadke.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social
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Looking forward to giving a tutorial on Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms with @tiziano.bsky.social at @icwsm.bsky.social today! Come join us at AAU, Room 2.1.083.
June 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Looking forward to giving a tutorial on Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms with @tiziano.bsky.social at @icwsm.bsky.social today! Come join us at AAU, Room 2.1.083.
I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me
June 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me
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I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I’ll be working on large language models, computational social science, and AI & society—and will be recruiting PhD students. Apply to work with me!
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I’ll be working on large language models, computational social science, and AI & society—and will be recruiting PhD students. Apply to work with me!
100 Years of Engineering @ Stanford!
May 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
100 Years of Engineering @ Stanford!
Deadline today! 🚨
Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees!
🗓️ Submission deadline: April 30
🔗 Details: w.wiki/CumQ
Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees!
🗓️ Submission deadline: April 30
🔗 Details: w.wiki/CumQ
April 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Deadline today! 🚨
Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees!
🗓️ Submission deadline: April 30
🔗 Details: w.wiki/CumQ
Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees!
🗓️ Submission deadline: April 30
🔗 Details: w.wiki/CumQ
New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta
meta.wikimedia.org
March 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
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2⃣ seminars coming up on Thursday with @tiziano.bsky.social and @uthsav.bsky.social! Check them out at bit.ly/3Fv5n7C and bit.ly/3FssGPr
March 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
2⃣ seminars coming up on Thursday with @tiziano.bsky.social and @uthsav.bsky.social! Check them out at bit.ly/3Fv5n7C and bit.ly/3FssGPr
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Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!
March 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!
Thanks to @tilmanbayer.bsky.social for covering our work on Wikipedia readership in the latest Wikimedia Research newsletter!
➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
In the new issue of our monthly newsletter:
▸ What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia
▸ Italian Wikipedia is the hardest to read
▸ "open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia" than those behind a paywall
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
▸ What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia
▸ Italian Wikipedia is the hardest to read
▸ "open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia" than those behind a paywall
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
March 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thanks to @tilmanbayer.bsky.social for covering our work on Wikipedia readership in the latest Wikimedia Research newsletter!
➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
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🤖🍲 What can LLMs do for sustainable food? 🤖🍲
We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks.
LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions!
URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV
We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks.
LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions!
URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV
February 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🤖🍲 What can LLMs do for sustainable food? 🤖🍲
We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks.
LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions!
URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV
We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks.
LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions!
URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV
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The call for papers for the second edition of the #WikiNLP workshop at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is out!
We welcome contributions on #NLProc + Wikimedia, especially on datasets, and ideas to advance its mission.
More details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
We welcome contributions on #NLProc + Wikimedia, especially on datasets, and ideas to advance its mission.
More details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The call for papers for the second edition of the #WikiNLP workshop at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is out!
We welcome contributions on #NLProc + Wikimedia, especially on datasets, and ideas to advance its mission.
More details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
We welcome contributions on #NLProc + Wikimedia, especially on datasets, and ideas to advance its mission.
More details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...
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📢 Call for #ICWSM2025 workshop proposals!
icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
All Web + social media topics are welcome!
Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research.
Due Fri Jan 24th AoE!
icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
All Web + social media topics are welcome!
Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research.
Due Fri Jan 24th AoE!
ICWSM '25
icwsm.org
January 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📢 Call for #ICWSM2025 workshop proposals!
icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
All Web + social media topics are welcome!
Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research.
Due Fri Jan 24th AoE!
icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
All Web + social media topics are welcome!
Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research.
Due Fri Jan 24th AoE!
How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
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Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible.
Check out the Table of Contents!
Check out the Table of Contents!
December 20, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible.
Check out the Table of Contents!
Check out the Table of Contents!
Weekend exercise: testing the Bluesky firehose. Who doesn't need a real-time dashboard to track EVERY emoji in messages?
😭, 😂, 🤣, ❤️ are topping the leaderboard!
feeds.feedwizard.org (counters just started)
😭, 😂, 🤣, ❤️ are topping the leaderboard!
feeds.feedwizard.org (counters just started)
December 15, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Weekend exercise: testing the Bluesky firehose. Who doesn't need a real-time dashboard to track EVERY emoji in messages?
😭, 😂, 🤣, ❤️ are topping the leaderboard!
feeds.feedwizard.org (counters just started)
😭, 😂, 🤣, ❤️ are topping the leaderboard!
feeds.feedwizard.org (counters just started)
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New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm.
Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts!
We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814
Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts!
We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814
November 27, 2024 at 2:20 PM
New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm.
Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts!
We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814
Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts!
We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814