Krzysztof Gajos

I'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST).
uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

At @hcde.uw.edu, we are hiring an assistant or associate teaching professor. If you are dedicated to advancing human centered design & engineering education and scholarship, and our interdisciplinary community might be the right next step in your career, I hope you will apply!

Drawing of a person looking at a screen, which contains an example of an AI generated decision recommendation and a contrastive explanation: "The AI suggests Antibiotic A instead of Antibiotic B because: Although both antibiotics can treat bacterial infections, recent lab tests showed that the bacteria found in this patient are resistant to Antibiotic B."

@zbucinca.bsky.social's new paper shows that people who receive AI decision recommendations with contrastive explanations (pick A instead of B because...) grow their skills. This important because people do not learn when AI provides conventional explanations.
iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucin...

New paper led by Zilin Ma and Weiwei Pan investigates how AI can augment the work of front line humanitarian negotiators & introduces a system that embodies these ideas. Instead of suggesting what to do next, the system helps them identify facts, values, issues & respective bottom lines and & lines.

You can't miss the "Women in AI" event, today at 10am. It's a joint initiative with #WiML !

With @kanarinka.bsky.social and @ivanafeld.bsky.social !

You can also follow it live at khipu.ai/live

HCDE Professor Kate Starbird awarded Presidential Early Career Award HCDE Professor Kate Starbird is among a distinguished group of scientists and engineers across the country honored with a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) fro...

Join us in congratulating HCDE Professor Kate Starbird on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This prestigious honor recognizes her groundbreaking research on the dynamics of misinformation and disinformation online.

Consider submitting to our upcoming CHI workshop on augmenting human reasoning with AI!

This is very relevant. Thank you!

Just a random thanks to you and @jackstilgoe.bsky.social. I am an #HCI researcher with CS roots. This paper is timely as my students and I are rethinking our relationships with our participant communities. I've also learned a ton from your podcast. Thanks for your wisdom and generosity!

Screenshot of paper abstract in the journal Social Studies of Science, entitled From the bench to public policy: Enhancing public trust in science. There is growing concern around the world about declining trust in the scientific enterprise. Some STS scholars argue that the solution is to move to a system of ‘virtual diversity’ where scientists are responsible for translating public concerns into their work. This commentary argues that this containment approach will have the opposite effect. The history of similar efforts suggests that scientists have trouble understanding the scope and urgency of public frustrations, and devalue the contributions of non-scientists, damaging the social fabric. A better approach for producing socially useful science and enhancing public trust is to create a truly inclusive scientific enterprise, which takes the knowledge and priorities of non-scientists seriously and engages them throughout the investigative process.

New paper! I argue we can't address public distrust in science through "virtual diversity" because scientists have trouble understanding the scope and urgency of public frustrations, and devalue non-scientists' contributions. If you can't access I will send! #STS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Please apply to work with Ken!! He is fantastic! And I'll get to work with you potentially too!

Just deleted my #facebook account. Haven't used it in years. Seemed like the right time.

Of course, it wasn't obvious how to do it. Here are instructions:

www.facebook.com/help/2245628...

#COVID numbers are high again in #Boston area (www.mwra.com/biobot/biobo...). We had a peaceful (COVID-wise) fall but now the risks are high again.

If you have the energy to take precautions for only a couple of weeks a year, now is the time.

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p...

P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests!

Please repost 🙏

+1 to Piranesi. It takes a while to get into but then it's amazing.

In conversations with fellow faculty members, the general expectation is that "administration" should deal with cases of toxic behavior by faculty. Colleagues in administration, however, feel that faculty are untouchable. Good academic culture requires that faculty hold each other accountable.

Do you feel that your profession or organization urgently needs to adopt #AI? Here's some advice that we often share (as academics working in human-AI interaction and #ML) with professional colleagues who consider the role of modern technology in their professions.

(w/ Weiwei Pan and Hongjin Lin)

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

Great syllabus! Thank you for sharing.

Apologies, I had to delete one of my replies because the paper is at a point in its life cycle where we are not allowed to mention it on social media (even though we are allowed to put it on a preprint server). You can keep the pointer to the paper but we cannot discuss it here yet.

Understanding Contestability on the Margins: Implications for the Design of Algorithmic Decision-making in Public Services | Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System...

Playing with the objectives even further, Naveena Karusala and Sohini Upadhyay looked deeply into how decision-making happens in public some institutions that are not using algorithms yet. They concluded that if we optimized for the welfare of decision subjects, the system would look very different.

Academic Faculty and students have the opportunity to teach, learn, and perform research projects using the full capabilities of JMP.

JMP (statistical analysis software that I find very useful for exploratory analyses and visualizations) now has free licensing for faculty and students but only for a "student edition" of the software. Does anyone know what's missing from student edition compared to Pro?

#HCI #statistics

I just joined bluesky. Could you add me?