Tao Long
@taolongg
🦁️💙 CS PhD @ColumbiaHCI • human-computer interaction researcher • AI creativity ✨ • prev @cornellcis @cornellucomm • 🧑🏻💻 intern @adskresearch
tomorrow 6/20, i'm presenting this paper at #alt_FAccT, a NYC local meeting for @FAccTConference ✨🎤 paper session #3 🎤✨ 🗽1:30pm June 20, Fri @ MSR NYC🗽 ⬇️ our #FAccT2025 paper is abt “what if ur ChatGPT spoke queer slang and AAVE?” 📚🔗 bit.ly/not-like-us
what if AI played the role of ur sassy gay bestie 🏳️🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾 ? you: plan a trip? 🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅” LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them…🧵 📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI
😵💫 Long-context human-AI planning with LLMs struggles when users have to manually manage all the context in messy chats (e.g. with ChatGPT). Meet 💡JumpStarter: task-structured context curation for better, collaborative planning with LLMs on complex tasks. 🧵 (1/n)
updated my site in time #CHI2025 🇯🇵🗼 not presenting, but happy to chat about: 🦆 FeedQUAC: ambient creativity tool with real-time audio feedback (with autodesk) 🎎 DoubleAgents: AI agents that learn human values/policies by simulating test cases & co-planning, executing them!!
🧩 How do we go from examples to structural insight? 🎭 Surface variation in real-world examples makes it hard to spot deeper patterns. ✨ Introducing Schemex: a system for discovering structure through interactive abstraction & contrastive refinement. 📄arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11795
hooray!! @lydiachilton 💖 whos advisor is this!!!! queen is queeninng — she deserves it!!! one of the smartest and nicest HCI researchers in the world ;)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Lydia Chilton is one of five Columbia faculty to receive the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship! Chilton's work in human-centered AI explores how AI and human creativity can work together to transform design,…
🚨⚠️Recently reviewed a paper that copied my CHI '24 work, ReelFramer arxiv.org/pdf/2304.09653, almost word-for-word. And they even cited ReelFramer! 😱 A friend mentioned they came across a similar situation. Is this common? What should the community do to prevent such incidents?
Super excited to share that my first, first-author paper has been accepted to #CHI2025 🌸🇯🇵! Our system, DynEx bridges design and engineering to help users flesh out their ideas through a Design Matrix and generate code to create a functional app 🖥️ 📖: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00400
After a long break from twitter, I plan to take an even longer one. Instead, I'll be on the cozy web [1], and maybe mastodon. Send me an email! Also: I am recruiting PhD students to join me at the University of Sydney. Check my website for details. [1] contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-extended…
I am joining University of Michigan, EECS department as an Assistant Professor starting Jan 2025, leading the Sensing, Intelligence, and eXperience (SIX) Lab. We are recruiting PhD students (fall 2025), master & undergraduate researchers! More information: junyizhu.com