Congratulations to Dr. Qian Zhao @QianZhao3 who just successfully defended his dissertation! It has been a pleasure working with him.

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Kluver Daniel Kluver for an excellent and successful dissertation defense!

I designed my CHI 2030. You can too! #CHI2030vision #chi2019

It was an honor to be invited to join SIGCHI China's 15th Anniversary celebration last weekend after having been there at the kick-off event in 2004!

Learning Informatics Lab Learning Informatics Lab is hiring two postdocs to work on a project that involves an interdisciplinary team (co-PIs Joe Konstan and S. Varma), an industry partner Infinite Campus, and funder Schmidt Futures. Apply here: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/336799 #EDM #learninganalytics

Best wishes for the new year! The #recsys21 #recsys call for papers is now online recsys.acm.org/recsys21/call/

I GOT THE JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎉

Happy to announce that I'm co-editing with Salvatore Andolina a special issue of IJHCS on AI, Decision-Making, and the Impact on Humans. bit.ly/AI-Decision-Ma…

Tune in to the Radical AI podcast episode with CS&E assistant professor Stevie Chancellor is elsewhere (see pinned)! She discusses AI, mental health, and the benefits/challenges of machine learning systems that are used to predict mental illness. Find it on radicalai.org, iTunes, and Spotify.

Very proud to be running for President of ACM! For more information: konstan.umn.edu/acm

First-round answers to your questions to ACM Presidential Candidates are posted: tinyurl.com/acmelection2022. Thanks again to Jeanna Matthews also @[email protected], nuriaoliver, and Moshe Vardi for organizing the Q&A! Keep the questions coming for Yannis and me, and if you're an ACM member, please vote!

Don’t mean to brag, but… The University of Minnesota has generated more than 200 startups since 2006, many of them instigated by CSE research, and the total investment in U of M startups is nearing $2 billion. Wow! #UMNProud Learn more: z.umn.edu/researchstatis…

Don’t mean to brag, but… The University of Minnesota was ranked 18th in the world for patents awarded. That includes numerous science and technology advancements from CSE researchers! #UMNProud z.umn.edu/researchstatis…

Had a wonderful visit last night to the Royal Society in London where I had the chance to see original manuscripts from Newton and Boole along with Turing's certificate of election as a Fellow. Thanks to Dame Wendy Hall for arranging this.

Huge congrats to our very own CSE Dean, Andrew Alleyne, on getting elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional honor for an engineer! National Academy of Engineering UMN Mechanical Engineering University of Minnesota #UMNProud cse.umn.edu/college/news/c…

"Hope You're Doing Well"--Thoughts on Automated Social Pleasantries huffingtonpost.com/acm-the-associ… via HuffPost Tech

Anyone know a direct number to reach TreadDesk? I've been trying to get my treadmill repaired for weeks; slow e-mail reply; no return call

Based in Sinan Aral's keynote at #recsys2016, Dan Cosley was ahead of his time with "is seeing believing" dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611….

Interview with Joe Konstan from UMN in a live recording event at FARCON 2017 to discuss recommender systems. dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/…

Don't jump to conclusions. The blue lines are parallel.