It's frustrating that the only really viable long-term funding options for international CS PhD students in the U.S. seem to be the fellowships coming from tech companies. Makes things especially difficult for anyone trying to do meaningful tech accountability work.😕

Are you an active #Indian #Spotify user? Investigating relationship between #music listening & #wellbeing. To participate: 1. Request your #Spotify listening history drive.google.com/file/d/1PtQs_d… 2. Fill the #survey forms.gle/JXWPgYnztzP6Fe… We pay INR 200. 🙏 for spreading.

The final talk of the Government, Regulation, and Audits Session is “Fair Decision-Making for Food Inspections” by Shubham Singh (Shubham Singh), Bhuvni Shah, Chris Kanich (Chris Kanich) and Ian A. Kash #EAAMO22 (1/2)

Please RT - new study from my lab! We're looking for participants who have recently been diagnosed (or self-diagnosed) with a mental illness to learn more about how online platforms helped, or hindered, the process! More info/to sign up: umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bq…

Explaining your PhD project to your family x.com/buitengebieden…

Got my first paycheck! 💰 But looking at the number, I realized something… I make more money in one week as a UXR than I made in an entire MONTH as a grad student. My stipend was <$2k a month. In Seattle. I had to work extra jobs. How do universities think that this is okay?

So glad my first in-person conference was #EAAMO22. The socials were great icebreakers. Getting to know the people who’d be the audience helped boost my confidence for my talk next day. Great experience!

Interested in a CS PhD in US? UIC CS Department is organizing a webinar to talk about the application process. The department is growing rapidly, offers a culturally diverse environment, and is located in the beautiful city of Chicago. Nov 2nd 7am CDT Webinar: tinyurl.com/uicwebinar2022

I did my pre-doc with these people, which at the time I didn’t know would be a pre-doc. My time with them was instrumental in getting early research experience and shaping my mind to do a PhD later. Go apply!

I'm honored to call Vedant a lifelong friend, mentor, and prolific researcher. He'd be a great addition to any organization he becomes a part of!

Can we talk about how exorbitantly high the monetary and labor costs are for Global North visa application processes? I’m required to pay $100+, go through the stress and labor of booking visa appointments (in possibly a different city) which are scarce these days, put in…

Tracking, but Make It Offline: The Privacy Implications of Scanning QR Codes Found in the World (Rayaan Siddiqi, Shubham Singh, Lenore Zuck, Chris Kanich - UIC CS Department) #ConPro23 conpro23.ieee-security.org/papers/siddiqi…

Check out oshrat ayalon's informative blog post on what we learned from studying people who kept Belgium's Coronalert app installed long term. These results offer insights for other disaster & mHealth apps.

Thrilled to share that my paper: "Sprinter: Speeding Up High-Fidelity Crawling of the Modern Web" got accepted at NSDI'24. Sprinter improves crawling throughput of distributed web crawlers by 5x while ensuring near-perfect fidelity of resource fetches.

Lily has been a great mentor and an amazing friend. Her passion for research and care about the environment inspires me. 🙌 She’ll be a great addition to any team she joins. Go hire her!! 🚀

🚨Excited to share that the V2 of the social impact paper, led by the incredible Irene Solaiman and Zeerak (زیرک ظلعت) is on Zeerak@ mastodon|bsky, is finally out! In this work, we present a guide for evaluating the social impact of Gen AI systems across categories & modalities. 🧵(1/7) arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05949

It was a joy working with such an amazing team. Got to learn a lot and made friends along the way!

This would not have been possible without my co-lead organizers Irene Solaiman and Zeerak (زیرک ظلعت) is on Zeerak@ mastodon|bsky, and our amazing group of core organizers and contributors

We're nearly 2 weeks away from the deadline for Tiny Papers for our workshop on social impact evaluation of genAI. If you have thoughts, critiques, WIP, or resources on that topic, now's the time to make them a quick 2-pager! evaleval.github.io/call-for-paper…

🪃 I'm on the academic job market! I study digital applications for work, focusing on mental well-being + social dynamics. My work merges AI, sensing, informatics, and organizational science to help workers work differently. Pls bump and keep an eye out: vedantswain.com