Tanu Mitra
@tanmit
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Assistant Professor @UW_iSchool. Computer Science, PhD @GeorgiaTech Social computing researcher studying online misinformation. Previously @VT_CS, @gtcomputing.
Joined September 2009
This is incredible @hua and Nick. So proud of you! It was a real honor to work with you this past year!
Truly honored and grateful to receive this inspiring #OutstandingPaperAward at #EMNLP2025! 🏆 Heartfelt thanks to dear @tanmit and Nick for such an enjoyable and wonderful collaboration💗. Huge thanks to our amazing general chair @dirk_hovy, program chairs @VioletNPeng, Carolyn
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🚨YouTube is a key source of health info, but it’s also rife with dangerous myths on opioid use disorder (OUD), a leading cause of death in the U.S. To understand the scale of such misinformation, our #EMNLP2025 paper introduces MythTriage, a scalable system to detect OUD myth🧵
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Figuring it out what’s it like attending the largest ACL conference. Also returning to attend my first ACL as a faculty. The last one I attended was almost half a decade ago as a PhD student #ACL2025NLP
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Woohoo! Congrats Hayoung! Such a well deserved award. It was a treat to work with you all these years and I can’t wait to see all the awesome things you are going to do next in your PhD journey!
Life update: I graduated with my M.S. @uwcse and received the outstanding master’s thesis award, advised by @tanmit! I am truly grateful for the amazing mentorship from Prof. Tanu Mitra and many others who have supported and taught me 💜💛
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🚀 BiAlign 🚀 Thrilled to announce that 72 papers have been accepted to our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop at #ICLR2025 & #CHI SIG! 🎉 Huge thanks to 80+ reviewers for their invaluable contributions! 🙏 @iclr_conf @acm_chi 📜 Accepted Papers: Check them out:
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Starting right now in our RAISE event @ecekamar keynote on AI agents. So much to learn in this fast moving field! @uw_ischool @uwcse
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Happening now in Zillow Commons, UW campus - our Winter RAISE exposition event. If you are nearby, do attend. https://t.co/AQFWKYR7zY
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Interested in Human-AI Alignment research and want to workshop the complex and evolving challenges in this space? Consider submitting your work at our interdisciplinary #ICLR2025 workshop @iclr_conf & #CHI2025 SIG. https://t.co/advn4IlZTC Deadline Feb 15th.
bialign-workshop.github.io
The official website for the ICLR BiAlign: Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
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Recommender systems can learn from how r\ifyoulikeblank users solicit recommendations from each other. Our @ACM_CSCW paper led by @momen_bh shows unique recommendation forms (e.g., a movie that captures Lofi hip-hop vibe) w\ @Donghan9508, Jelson, @tanmit
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Despite the existence of search-based recommender systems like Google, Netflix, and Spotify, online users sometimes may turn to crowdsourced recommendations in places like the r/ifyoulikeblank...
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2️⃣ Unveiling Covert Harms in LLM Conversations 📍 Brickell | Nov 14 | 10:30-12 PM 🔗 https://t.co/WFDDLNZ9rb (W/ @hayounggjung, @anjali_singh35, @monojitchou, @tanmit) Excited to explore these topics together – please join us at our sessions! #EMNLP2024 #EMNLP (2/2)
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Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Hayoung Jung, Anjali Singh, Monojit Choudhury, Tanu Mitra. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.
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The @UW_iSchool is hiring this year! Tenure track open area, tenure track LIS, teaching track data science, teaching track LIS. Come join us in the bustling, drizzly, booming Pacific Northwest!
ischool.uw.edu
The University of Washington is committed to being one of the top information schools in the world. As part of this effort, we seek outstanding individuals...
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@TheLabBKC @BKCHarvard “Information Sharing and Content Framing across Multiple Platforms and Functional Roles That Exemplify Social Processes of Online Hate Groups” by @shruti_ph and @tanmit examines how traditional, offline hate groups use Facebook and Twitter/X to create an online ecosphere of hate,
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I am at #FaCCT2024 for the next few days and can chat in-person too! Bummed to be missing #ICWSM2024 which is happening at the same time, but if folks there are interested, please reach out!!
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If you're a recently graduated or about-to-graduate PhD looking for a postdoc in the space of auditing AI systems, epistemic risks of generative AI, and thinking about human-centric ways of addressing these risks, please apply and reach out:
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Robert presenting this right now! @wolferobert3 #FAccT2024
If you are #FAccT2024, don't miss @wolferobert3 talk today at the 10:10am session on "When LLMs are being deployed". The work highlights the ways fact-checking orgs are using generative AI and the challenges that prevent further adoption. @uw_ischool
https://t.co/jzEBZqcZ2e
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This was a fun talk to hear #facct2024 on Evaluation of LLMs' Humour Alignment with Comedians, which essentially ended with "We need more HCI methods" :-) https://t.co/PIQ4Vck3yR
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If you are #FAccT2024, don't miss @wolferobert3 talk today at the 10:10am session on "When LLMs are being deployed". The work highlights the ways fact-checking orgs are using generative AI and the challenges that prevent further adoption. @uw_ischool
https://t.co/jzEBZqcZ2e
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At #ICWSM2024? Be sure to catch @shruti_ph from presentation of our work done @uw_ischool this Wed at 11am. Nicely timed research as we are right in the midst of the Indian elections! Paper pdf here: https://t.co/Tm8d7ZdOjh
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This was a fun collaboration with some amazing students @uw_ischool @uwcse and with @monojitchou from @mbzuai. Checkout the tweet thread from @preetams7 summarizing our findings about subtle harms in #LLMs and how they manifest for caste vs. race. @uwresponsibleai
LLMs are known to generate harmful views, but what are the various and potentially covert forms of harm and identity threats in LLM-generated conversations? We explore this with @hayounggjung, @anjali_singh35, @monojitchou, and @tanmit. Preprint:
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