Hari Sundaram
Professor
Studies computational social science, including network behavior, information diffusion and human-centered algorithm design.
Hari Sundaram's lab at UIUC works on computational social science, data management & big data and language & society. 40 papers since 2023, 14 at top venues, mostly CHI and CSCW. 8 PhD students. 37 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 35%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 37
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 8
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, CSCW, RecSys, ACL, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Language & society3 papers
- Computational social science2 papers
- Data management & big data1 paper
- algorithm design0 papers
- algorithm0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- In (to appear) Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Budapest, Hungary. October . Association for Computational Linguistics.AI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language? (opens in a new tab)
- In (to appear) ACL Findings. .CausalDetox: Causal Head Selection and Intervention for Language Model Detoxification (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference, Braunschweig, Germany. . ACM.Detecting Early and Implicit Suicidal Ideation via Longitudinal and Information Environment Signals on Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, New York, NY, USA. June .Do You Trust the Process?: Trust-Contingent Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation (opens in a new tab)
- In (to appear) Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Budapest, Hungary. October . Association for Computational Linguistics.Facts Without Rules: Boundary Metadata Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Handoffs (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the PoliSim@CHI Workshop: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy, Barcelona, Spain. April .From Plausible to Causal: Counterfactual Semantics for Policy Evaluation in Simulated Online Communities (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLMasking or Mitigating? Deconstructing the Impact of Query Rewriting on Retriever Biases in RAG (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Multi-modal Relational Item Representation Learning for Inferring Substitutable and Complementary Items (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Supporting Learners' Use of Imperfect Generative Pedagogical Chatbots: The Role of Chatbot Response Uncertainty and Reduced Verbosity (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable (opens in a new tab)
- In Forty- International Conference on Machine Learning. July .Unlearning Isn’t Forgetting: Revealing Hidden Leakage in Class Unlearning Evaluations (opens in a new tab)
202516 papers
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, New York, NY, USA. June . Association for Computing Machinery.Algorithmic Collective Action with Two Collectives (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Breaking Bad Tokens: Detoxification of LLMs Using Sparse Autoencoders (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference, La Jolla, CA. August .Budget, Cost, or Both? An Empirical Exploration of Mechanisms in Quadratic Surveys (opens in a new tab)
- In The ACM Learning @ Scale Conference, Palermo, Italy, New York, New York, USA. July . ACM Press.Can Learners Navigate Imperfect Generative Pedagogical Chatbots? An Analysis of Chatbot Errors on Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Enhancing Computational Notebooks with Code+Data Space Versioning (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA. April . Association for Computing Machinery.Large-scale Evaluation of Notebook Checkpointing with AI Agents (opens in a new tab)
- RecSys (T1)LLM-RecG: A Semantic Bias-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Sequential Recommendation (opens in a new tab)
- In IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). October .Measuring the Complexity of Sub-Policies in Online Terms of Service Networks (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Not All Wrong is Bad: Using Adversarial Examples for Unlearning (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, New York, NY, USA. June . Association for Computing Machinery.Oh the Prices You'll See: Designing a Fair Exchange System to Mitigate Personalized Pricing (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Organize, Then Vote: Exploring Cognitive Load in Quadratic Survey Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action. .Sync or Sink: Bounds on Algorithmic Collective Action with Noise and Multiple Groups (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- RecSys (T1)A Pre-trained Zero-shot Sequential Recommendation Framework via Popularity Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), edited by Yvette Graham and Matthew PurverAdvancing Precise Outline-Conditioned Text Generation with Task Duality and Explicit Outline Control (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), edited by Yvette Graham and Matthew PurverCEV-LM: Controlled Edit Vector Language Model for Shaping Natural Language Generations (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)CodeScope: An Execution-based Multilingual Multitask Multidimensional Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Code Understanding and Generation (opens in a new tab)
- NSF-WSCSHow Computing Can Help Individuals Address Climate Change (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '24Intervening to Increase Community Trust for Fair Network Outcomes (opens in a new tab)
- In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), April .Spectrum Extraction and Clipping for Implicitly Linear Layers (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ).Inform the Uninformed: Improving Online Informed Consent Reading with an AI-Powered Chatbot (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), .Measuring User-Moderator Alignment on r/ChangeMyView (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), .The Value of Activity Traces in Peer Evaluations: An Experimental Study (opens in a new tab)
- In PACLIC 37: The Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, China.What should I Ask: A Knowledge-driven Approach for Follow-up Questions Generation in Conversational Surveys (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '23Your Browsing History May Cost You: A Framework for Discovering Differential Pricing in Non-Transparent Markets (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went37 listed
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