InfoSeeker Shawon Sarkar with her advisor Chirag Shah as she graduates with a PhD from UW iSchool. Congratulations, Dr. Sarkar!

While some agree with CAIS' statement that preventing extinction from AI should be a top priority, others, such as Chirag Shah, a professor at the Information School at UW, see that fear as somewhat farfetched. #InfoSeeking #artificialintelligence techtarget.com/searchenterpri…

#InfoSeekers Souvick Ghosh, Ph.D. and Chirag Shah's paper "Toward Connecting Speech Acts and Search Actions in Conversational Search Tasks" at ACM/IEEE JCDL 2023 conference has been nominated as the Best Paper. arxiv.org/abs/2305.04858

Excited to present Preetam Dammu latest work with Yunhe (Jack) Feng Chirag Shah at #IJCAI2023. Paper link: lnkd.in/gTVsg8aJ #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #EthicsInTech #Inclusion #AI #MachineLearningBias #WebSearch #GenerativeModels

Join us for a 1.5 day workshop on Microsoft campus in Redmond to learn and discuss #GenerativeAI #TaskIR and more. We have travel funds for students. Apply to participate by Sept. 6th. ir-ai.github.io

Can we use LLMs responsibly in understanding user intents from logs? My work with Ryen White and others from Microsoft Research shows a new method for using LLMs with human-in-the-loop to generate, validate, and apply user Intent taxonomies arxiv.org/pdf/2309.13063…

"AI and the Future of Information Access" by Chirag Shah for #InformationMatters informationmatters.org/2023/10/ai-and…

"From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Science With Human in the Loop" -- read the latest paper by our lab director Chirag Shah on how to bring scientific rigor and validity to building LLM prompts for research purposes. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04122…

"What Does It Mean To Be Intelligent?" by Chirag Shah for #InformationMatters informationmatters.org/2024/01/what-d…

Lab director Chirag Shah and former InfoSeeker Chathra Hendahewa reuniting in Seattle. #WeAreSeekers

Congratulations Ryen White for being one of a very few distinguished scholars to have been inducted in both #SIGIR and #SIGCHI Academy! An amazing accomplishment and a well-deserved recognition. medium.com/sigchi/announc…

My recent #TEDx talk on #AI is now live: 'What Could, Should, and Would AI Do?' or 'How to be a good 'parent' to AI' youtube.com/watch?v=rkB2Dj…

Lab director Chirag Shah and PhD alumni Dongho Choi reuniting in Seattle! #WeAreSeekers

"AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition" by lab director Chirag Shah theconversation.com/ai-search-answ…

To Dr. Chirag Shah, AI is not just another promising technology. In his first TED talk at UW, he drew parallels between parenting and building responsible and accountable AI. #TedxUW infoseeking.org/iblog/2024/06/… youtube.com/watch?v=rkB2Dj…

Lab director Chirag Shah quoted in The Atlantic article on GenAI theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

InfoSeekers reunited! Lab director Chirag Shah and Yunhe (Jack) Feng (postdoc 2020-2022) #WeAreSeekers

InfoSeekers Jiqun Liu, PhD Shawon Sarkar and Chirag Shah reunited on University of Washington campus #WeAreSeekers

How can we make AI decisions more understandable? Excited to share our latest publication! We review existing studies on counterfactual explanations and propose a rubric for evaluating algorithms👉dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… By our amazing InfoSeekers and lab director Chirag Shah

Prof. Chirag Shah, quoted in EDUCAUSEreview, breaks down AI search issues: Retrieval: Returns answers even when none exist Generation: Creates responses without fact-checking Natural Language Interface: Builds false trust Read more: er.educause.edu/articles/2024/… #AI #AISearch