Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])
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Assistant prof at @UMichCSE, PhD @MIT_CSAIL, Postdoc at @StanfordHAI | HCI, Social Computing
Joined January 2021
My work was featured in the MIT News today! Read more on empowering users to assess the accuracy of content and see assessments from their trusted sources everywhere on the web:
news.mit.edu
In an effort to decentralize the fight against online misinformation, MIT researchers developed the Trustnet browser extension, which empowers individuals to assess the accuracy of any content on any...
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🎙️ Today! Join us for an HCC Seminar with Prof. Jeremy Bailenson (@StanfordVR), founder of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. 🧠 “What We Know from 30 Years of Psychological Experimentation in Virtual Reality” 📅 Oct 17 | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 4320 Leinweber #HCC #UMich #XR
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📢 University of Michigan HCI Seminar Series ‼️ Join us for a talk by Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard CS) on: Building AI-powered systems that support worker competence, autonomy, and purpose 🗓️ Fri, Sept 19 | 2:30–3:30 PM 📍 4320 Leinweber (Dow Event Space) https://t.co/k5Pui4sQDr
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Tabracadabra 🎉 is a system that brings tab-to-autocomplete literally *anywhere* there’s a textbox. Instead of relying on a single codebase for context, Tabracadabra uses a General User Model to autocomplete with everything you see or do on your computer.
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Realtime reranking of your Twitter/X feed based on a large library of values. Bring Your Own Feed! To appear at ICWSM 2026:
Why should engagement-driven algorithms dictate everything we see online? What if we could directly shape the values that our social media feeds promote to us? We introduce Alexandria: a library of 78 human values, powered by LLMs, to re-rank your feed in real time. #ICWSM 🧵⬇️
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What if your feed reflected YOUR values, not the platform's? Check out Alexandria, a library of 78 human values built as a browser extension that reranks your twitter feed in realtime according to your values👇
Why should engagement-driven algorithms dictate everything we see online? What if we could directly shape the values that our social media feeds promote to us? We introduce Alexandria: a library of 78 human values, powered by LLMs, to re-rank your feed in real time. #ICWSM 🧵⬇️
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@umsi we developed accessibility guidelines to evaluate AI coding tools like @Replit , @julesagent and @code . Blind or visually impaired developers, #A11Y experts and accademics, please participate in our study to ensure programming remains accessible! https://t.co/tIwyj1eMtz
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I'm recruiting PhD students to @UMichCSE. I'm interested in designing, developing, and evaluating novel data-driven technologies and AI models by rigorously studying their high-stakes healthcare applications. See https://t.co/3QztXYFZM6 for more information. RT's appreciated 😊
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A chance to deploy your AI for orgs idea internally in a field trial at DeepMind!
📣 Announcing the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge, a new competition for scholars to help organizations enter the era of AI. @GoogleDeepMind and @StanfordHAI invite researchers from any university worldwide to submit your boldest ideas. Learn more: https://t.co/67SBSgDIgd
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BREAKING NEWS! Most people aren’t prompting models with IMO problems :) They’re prompting with tasks that need more context, like “plz make talk slides.” In an ACL oral, I’ll cover challenges in human-LM grounding (in 60K+ real interactions) & introduce a benchmark: RIFTS. 🧵
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Another great #VISIONS2025 at the Ann Arbor District Library! This year we as AHA (Accessibility, HCI, and Aging), a research collective at UMich, showcased a range of accessibility research to the community. https://t.co/1A30bBJdlT
@aadl We had a blast at the Ann Arbor District Library #VISIONS2024 event! Met great people, shared our work, and made new connections! @aadl @jayhersk @EllieSeehorn @itsraynez
https://t.co/ZvxwQkDcyf
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What if LLMs could learn your habits and preferences well enough (across any context!) to anticipate your needs? In a new paper, we present the General User Model (GUM): a model of you built from just your everyday computer use. 🧵
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I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University 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! https://t.co/703Fxe3MdC
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I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at @JohnsHopkins 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!
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My amazing husband @tizianopiccardi is also joining @JohnsHopkins CS as an Assistant Professor, working on social computing&HCI 💙. We’re beyond excited for this next chapter. I'm so grateful to my mentors and collaborators! @jurafsky @cervisiarius @StanfordSPARQ @ashton1anderson
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I’m so happy to share that I’ll be joining @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! 🥳 I’ll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle, so keep an eye out for more info if you’re interested in accessibility, AI, and HCI! (1/2)
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Todo lists, docs, email style – if you've got individual or team knowledge you want ChatGPT/Claude to have access to, Knoll ( https://t.co/sD6WNy3j6l) is a personal RAG store from @Stanford that you can add any knowledge into. Instead of copy-pasting into your prompt every time,
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New talk: "Personal Assistive Technology" I described our vision towards empowering people with disabilities to leverage their domain expertise and creativity to create and customize assistive technologies for themselves. Please check it out!
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Hearty congratulations to @chelseabfinn, @DorsaSadigh and @sanmikoyejo for all winning a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor of the U.S. government for outstanding early career scientists and engineers. https://t.co/fOAO5RrH0U
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Less than one week left to apply!
📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at @UMichCSE! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
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