Publications

Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models

In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2023. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, Macau, SAR China, 5941–5949.

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Yunhe Feng, and Chirag Shah

AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark

arXiv e-prints, 26 November, 2021.

Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Emily M Bender, Amandalynne Paullada, Emily Denton, and Alex Hanna

An iSchool approach to data science: Human-centered, socially responsible, and context-driven.

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 72, 6 (2021), 793–796.

Chirag Shah, Theresa Anderson, Loni Hagen, and Yin Zhang

Assessing enactment of content regulation policies: A post hoc crowd-sourced audit of election misinformation on YouTube

In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 19, 2023. ACM, Hamburg Germany, 1–22.

Prerna Juneja, Md Momen Bhuiyan, and Tanushree Mitra

Automated Metrics for Medical Multi-Document Summarization Disagree with Human Evaluations

In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 9871–9889.

Lucy Lu Wang, Yulia Otmakhova, Jay DeYoung, Thinh Hung Truong, Bailey Kuehl, Erin Bransom, and Byron Wallace

Characterizing Political Campaigning with Lexical Mutants on Indian Social Media

arXiv e-prints (2024).

Shruti Phadke and Tanushree Mitra

Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the Uspto

 SSRN Journal (2022).

Nicholas Pairolero, Andrew A Toole, Peter-Anthony Pappas, Charles deGrazia, and Mike Teodorescu

Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice

ACM J. Responsib. Comput. (May 2023), 3594737.

Angelina McMillan-Major, Emily M. Bender, and Batya Friedman 

Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and AI-Generated Image Classification

arXiv e-prints, 16th November, 2023

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu and Chirag Shah

Determining systematic differences in human graders for machine learning-based automated hiring

The Brookings Institution, USA, 1-33

Mike H M Teodorescu, Nailya Ordabayeva, Marios Kokkodis, Abhishek Unnam, and Varun Aggarwal

Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms

J Bus Ethics 181, 4 (December 2022), 1083–1095.

Lily Morse, Mike Horia M. Teodorescu, Yazeed Awwad, and Gerald C. Kane

Effective Backdoor Mitigation Depends on the Pre-training Objective

arXiv e-prints, 25th November, 2023.

Sahil Verma, Gantavya Bhatt, Avi Schwarzschild, Soumye Singhal, Arnav Mohanty Das, Chirag Shah, John P. Dickerson, and Jeff Bilmes 

Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?

ACM Trans. Web (February 2024), 3649468.

Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender

Failures of Fairness in Automation Require a Deeper Understanding of Human-ML Augmentation

MISQ 45, 3 (September 2021), 1483–1500.

Mike H. M. Teodorescu, Lily Morse, Yazeed Awwad, and Gerald C. Kane

FAIR: Fairness‐aware information retrieval evaluation

Asso for Info Science & Tech 73, 10 (October 2022), 1461–1473.

Ruoyuan Gao, Yingqiang Ge, and Chirag Shah 

Fairness Constraints in Speech-to-Text Applications – Clinical Effects of Salivation

 In 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), October 25, 2023. IEEE, Bucharest, Romania, 72–77.

Mike H.M. Teodorescu, Ionut Taraboanta, Sorin Andrian, Angela C. Ghiorghe, Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, and Mihaela Grigorie

From Paper to Card: Transforming Design Implications with Generative AI

University of Washington, Faculty

Donghoon Shin, Lucy Lu Wang, and Gary Hsieh

Has CEO Gender Bias Really Been Fixed? Adversarial Attacking and Improving Gender Fairness in Image Search.

AAAI 36, 11 (June 2022), 11882–11890.

Yunhe Feng and Chirag Shah

Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking

In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2 (November 2022), 1–36.

Prerna Juneja and Tanushree Mitra

Inflorescence: A Framework for Evaluating Fairness with Clustered Federated Learning

In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, October 08, 2023. ACM, Cancun, Quintana Roo Mexico, 374–380.

Alex Kyllo and Afra Mashhadi 

Investigating Code Generation Performance of ChatGPT with Crowdsourcing Social Data

In 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), June 2023. IEEE, Torino, Italy, 876–885.

Yunhe Feng, Sreecharan Vanam, Manasa Cherukupally, Weijian Zheng, Meikang Qiu, and Haihua Chen

Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data

ICWSM 17, (June 2023), 1073–1081.

Jürgen Pfeffer, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka, Onur Varol, Afra Mashhadi, Jana Lasser, Dennis Assenmacher, Siqi Wu, Diyi Yang, Cornelia Brantner, Daniel M. Romero, Jahna Otterbacher, Carsten Schwemmer, Kenneth Joseph, David Garcia, and Fred Morstatter

No Walk in the Park: The Viability and Fairness of Social Media Analysis for Parks and Recreational Policy Making

ICWSM 15, (May 2021), 409–420.

Afra Mashhadi, Samantha G. Winder, Emilia H. Lia, and Spencer A. Wood

Machine Learning Fairness is Computationally Difficult and Algorithmically Unsatisfactorily Solved

In 2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), September 20, 2021. IEEE, Waltham, MA, USA, 1–8.

Mike H.M. Teodorescu and Xinyu Yao

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, March 03, 2021. ACM, Virtual Event Canada, 610–623

Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell

Open Domain Multi-document Summarization: A Comprehensive Study of Model Brittleness under Retrieval

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore, 8177–8199.

John Giorgi, Luca Soldaini, Bo Wang, Gary Bader, Kyle Lo, Lucy Wang, and Arman Cohan 

Paper Plain : Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 5 (October 2023), 1–38

Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, Marti A. Hearst, Andrew Head, and Kyle Lo.

Precise Debias: An Automatic Prompt Engineering Approach for Generative AI to Mitigate Image Demographic Biases

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), January 2024. IEEE, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 8596-8605.

Colton Clemmer, Junhua Ding, and Yunhe Feng 

Privacy-Aware Adversarial Network in Human Mobility Prediction

arXiv e-prints, 9 Aug, 2022.

Yuting Zhan, Hamed Haddadi, and Afra Mashhadi 

Recreational mobility prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Commun Phys 7, 1 (February 2024), 55.

Zahra Ghadiri, Afra Mashhadi, Marc Timme, and Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI”

ACurr Dir Psychol Sci (February 2024), 09637214231217286

Emily M. Bender 

Towards Fairness-aware Adversarial Network Pruning

In 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 01, 2023. IEEE, Paris, France, 5145–5154.

Lei Zhang, Zhibo Wang, Xiaowei Dong, Yunhe Feng, Xiaoyi Pang, Zhifei Zhang, and Kui Ren

Towards Fairness-Aware Ranking by Defining Latent Groups Using Inferred Features

In Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval, Ludovico Boratto, Stefano Faralli, Mirko Marras and Giovanni Stilo (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 1–8.

Yunhe Feng, Daniel Saelid, Ke Li, Ruoyuan Gao, and Chirag Shah

What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?: Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3 (January 2021), 1–30.

Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, and Tanushree Mitra

Situating Search

In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, March 14, 2022. ACM, Regensburg Germany, 221–232.

Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender