I’m a researcher, educator, and advocate for ethics and diversity in Computing. As of Sept 2019, I am an Associate Professor of Computer Software and Systems at the University of Washington (Bothell). I am part of RAISE. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor at i-School UW Seattle.
I am honored to receive Sr. Chief Ronald G. Gamboa Endowment Faculty Fellowship Award. June 2025
Our paper on “"Response Generation through Social Reasoning in Large Language Models with Direct Diverse Preferences Optimization" has been accepted to ICTIR 2025.
Our paper on “Measuring Biases of LLMs in AI-Generated Co-authorship Networks” has been published in EPJ Data Science Journal. April 2025.
Our paper on “Benchmarking Clustered Federated Learning Algorithms for Next-Point Prediction” has been accepted in IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IN SMART SYSTEMS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS (DCOSS). April 2025.
Our paper on “A Framework for Measuring and Benchmarking Fairness of Generative Crowd-Flow Models” has been accepted in ACM Journal of Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS). March 2025 - Online Open Access
Our paper on “Does Memorization Affect LLMs' Social Reasoning? An Evaluation on Seen and Unseen Queries” has been accepted to ACMWSDM 2025 Conference. (17% acceptance rate).
Fun: See my academic tree to celebrate those who came before me.
