Amy Pavel

Come join the first CHI workshop on generative AI and accessibility at CHI 2025! I can't wait to hear from the amazing panelists and connect with our growing research community! The workshop is fully hybrid to enable broad participation. We would love to see you there!!

Code Shaping just won the Best Paper Award at #CHI25!!! 🥳🎉 Thanks for the recognition! If you've read the paper or watched my presentation, I’ve put together some insider scoops and untold stories from the making of this project 😉 👉 ryanyen2.github.io/blog/code-shap…

🎉 Registration for #UIST2025 is now open! Join us in Busan for cutting-edge research, exciting demos, and networking along the beautiful Korean coast. Take advantage of early bird rates by registering before August 29th. 🎟️ Register now: cvent.me/MMYyPL

📣 The Student Volunteer lottery for #UIST2025 is now open! Be part of the team that brings UIST to life and make valuable connections with fellow students and leading researchers. 🔗 Application details: uist.acm.org/2025/cfp/#stud… 🗓️ Deadline: August 24, 2025 (AoE)

Had the pleasure to visit Ding Li's podcast to talk about the HCI+AI era, accessibility research, advising students, and faculty hiring (in Chinese). 🗣️🎙️

Happy to share that EvalAgent has been accepted to #COLM2025 @COLM_conf 🎉🇨🇦 We introduce a framework to identify implicit and diverse evaluation criteria for various open-ended tasks! 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15219

Our team at Fujitsu Research of America is #hiring for full-time Researcher & Research Intern roles. We are a growing #HCI + #AI team and we encourage publications! Please apply below. (If you applied for similar roles earlier this year, we’d love to see your application again)

Well... a new chapter is starting! I'm over the moon to be joining @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL as an Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2026. 🌕 (1/5)

Revoking visas to Chinese PhD students is economically shortsighted and inhumane. Most Chinese PhD students stay in the U.S. after graduation (first image, stats from 2022). They're staying and building technology in the U.S., not taking it to China. Immigrant students create…

1/3 The US didn’t end up leading the world in computing by luck. It happened because it made long-term, public investments in basic research, especially through NSF. That’s what created the technology that today’s companies are built on.

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas. Funding research that is openly shared benefits the whole world, but the nation it benefits most is the one where the research is…

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining @UTAustin @UTCompSci as an assistant professor in fall 2026! I will continue working on language models, data challenges, learning paradigms, & AI for innovation. Looking forward to teaming up with new students & colleagues! 🤠🤘

Last week, we visited the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) and introduced AVscript to their Film and Media class. 🎥🎬 Students tried editing videos with our tool!

The FY26 budget slashes NSF by 55%, which directly threatens basic research in the United States. Please call your reps NOW and tell them to reject these cuts and protect science funding. You can find them here : congress.gov/members

I am excited to join the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor this Fall. I will be hiring 2 Ph.D. students starting in Spring/Fall 2026. I will continue to work on UI optimization/generation and eye tracking-related research. I’d love suggestions for a lab name! @UUtah

I’m so happy to share that I’ll be joining @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! 🥳 I’ll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle, so keep an eye out for more info if you’re interested in accessibility, AI, and HCI! (1/2)

56%?!

Recent AI models can suggest endless video edits, offering many alternatives to video creators. But how can we easily sift through them all? In our #CHI2025 paper, we propose VideoDiff, an AI video editing tool designed for editing with alternatives.

Following inquiries, we are extending the deadline to the 20th. We look forward to your submission!

New talk: "Personal Assistive Technology" I described our vision towards empowering people with disabilities to leverage their domain expertise and creativity to create and customize assistive technologies for themselves. Please check it out! youtu.be/-gxy0_z5oYA

Come and join us in Busan, Korea 🇰🇷 for #UIST2025! The paper track is now accepting submissions. Looking forward to an amazing technical program, and good luck to everyone preparing for submissions🤞