Sharon Heung
@SharonHeung
Information Science PhD Candidate @Cornellcis Studying ableism online #a11y #HCI @nsfgrfp fellow; Past Lives: @ATT @hcdeUW 🦋http://sharonheung.bsky.social
Landed at #CHI2025! I'll be... (1) Presenting our paper on data in mental healthcare payment programs. (2) On the lookout for folks interested in developing AI systems to support mental healthcare. Prospective PhD students, say hi! I'm recruiting @UMichCSE next cycle.
Thank you for helping spread the word! Excited to be doing more work with content creators 🤗
Excited to check out this newly published research by @SharonHeung and colleagues: “Vulnerable, Victimized, and Objectified”: Understanding Ableist Hate and Harassment Experienced by Disabled Content Creators on Social Mediahttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641949
Great #CHI2025 talk this afternoon by @sharonheung on attitudes towards personalised moderation of online ableist hate content 👏🏼 Relevant to my own work and also the wider @bpscyberpsychology community. Paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…
Excited to be at #chi2025! Fun fact about me: I’ll start as an Assistant Professor in the fall and I’m recruiting PhD students for next year. If you or your students are interested in design, HCI, and health, reach out! 🤙
Excited to be at #CHI2025 with Joy Ming, @SharonHeung , @agdhruv , and @ianrsolano! Our lab, and collaborators, will be presenting several papers next week that advance the design of Globally Equitable AI systems—tools and frameworks that center equity, cultural awareness, and…
Lab photo with a subset of past and present! #CSCW2024 🎉🎉
What a fantastic #CSCW24! Although photos/tags are incomplete, an incredible Chilean group (10) and a large Cornell IS too! Honored to be part of an amazing Organizing Committee led by @frostaf & @claulopez Looking forward to #CSCW25 in which I'll be presenting 2 papers!
I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at Cornell Tech! If you are interested in topics relating to machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias, or evaluation, apply and mention my name in your application: infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions Also, go vote!
🔥 Fantastic talk by @SharonHeung at #CHI2024 presenting a taxonomy of ableist hate that disabled content creators face online and how their experiences with abuse and hate are critically underrepresented in abuse literature. Paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…
Here at #CHI2024 with @VRAdithya, @SharonHeung, and @ianrsolano presenting papers! Excited to meet friends and make new connections! Send me a DM/email if you’d like to chat :)
Excited to share our #CHI2024 paper exploring BLV people’s video #accessibility preferences across diverse viewing scenarios (e.g., different video types, platforms, and information goals)! The biggest takeaway? “It’s kind of context dependent” 🧵 1/6 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2403.10792
I'm on the job market this year! I'll finish my PhD from @hcdeUW in 2024 and am looking for tenure-track research faculty roles that would enable me to advise PhD students interested in doing interdisciplinary research on accessible technologies
Hello from #assets2023 in NYC! Students interested in pursuing a PhD with me at @Tulane, please find the application and program details here: sse.tulane.edu/ms-and-phd-pro…. I'm happy to chat at the conference as well! :)