Wesley Hanwen Deng
@wes_deng
PhD @cmuhcii. Developing tools, processes, and policies to support responsible AI practices *on the ground*. Prev @MSFTResearch @Berkeley_EECS @BerkeleyISchool
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At #FAccT2024? Be sure to catch Sunnie S. Y. Kim’s talk on uncertainty expression for generative AI.
So excited that the paper is finally out 🥳! Huge congrats to Jordan Taylor for leading and reframing this work 👏! I am really proud of the final outcomes, and working on this piece has truly transformed my approach to the concept of "marginalization" in my future work.
So proud to share that the new ACM XRDS Magazine issue - "Technology & Social Justice: Shifting Power through Resistance" is out! The issue highlights various strategies of resistance across tech workers, activists, and students. Read it here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… thread 1/
Will you be at #UIST 2024 in Pittsburgh? The CMU HCII CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites you to join us for a pre-UIST open house and party on Saturday, October 12th. RSVP here: forms.gle/CKvEmz3ndxpkyC… /cc UIST 2024 ACM SIGCHI
Arvind Narayanan FWIW I think definitions of AGI that prioritize generality are conceptually distinct from definitions emphasizing automating economically valuable tasks. See our forthcoming #AIES paper with leif hancox-li, bedtime caucus member and Where the Tweets have no name for context: arxiv.org/abs/2401.13142
Life update: I recently started as an assistant professor at UVA's School of Data Science UVA School of Data Science ! I'll be recruiting PhD students this fall to join my research group in Fall 2025. A huge thank you to everyone who supported me in this journey! ❤️
I'm on the academic AND industry job market!! While I'm prepping applications, if anyone has put any of my content into their course curricula-including (1) episodes from The Radical AI Podcast or (2) papers that I have published -- could you please DM me so I can add those to my CV? ❤️
Super honored and happy to be selected as an EECS Rising Star and a Siebel Scholar🌟 I'll also be on the job market this year looking for positions where I can continue AI+HCI research on responsible AI! risingstars-eecs.mit.edu/participants/?… siebelscholars.com/articles/siebe… Princeton Computer Science Princeton Engineering