Koustuv Saha
Assistant Professor
Studies human-centered AI and social computing, including machine learning on social media to understand mental health and well-being.
Koustuv Saha's lab at UIUC works on accessibility, health & wellbeing, social computing & responsible AI and language & society. 78 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly CSCW and CHI. 8 PhD students and 5 master's students. 20 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 20/ year
- at T1 venues
- 21%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 20
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 35 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 1
- 10 papers2024 · T1 5
- 17 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CSCW, CHI, Findings of EMNLP, ACL, FAccT
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing27 papers
- Social computing & responsible AI16 papers
- social16 papers
- Language & society10 papers
- well-being0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202635 papers
- CHI (T1)“In my defense, only three hours on Instagram”: Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer LNCSA Checklist for Trustworthy, Safe, and User-Friendly Mental Health Chatbots
- ACM Transactions on Social ComputingA Social Media Lens on the Needs and Concerns of Information Workers
- Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)AI as Affective Infrastructure: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Mental Health Impacts of AI Platform Updates
- Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health (Impact Factor: 5.8)AI Chatbots for Mental Health Self-Management: A Lived Experience–Centered Qualitative Study
- In Digital Minds Workshop, Co-located with ICWSMAI Content Moderation in Therapy Conversations
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), MainAI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language?
- Proceedings of ACM AI Leadership SummitAI Resilient Future of Work: A Counterfactual Lens on Human-AI Collaboration
- Findings of EMNLPAnswer Bubbles: Information Exposure in AI-Mediated Search
- In Digital Minds Workshop, Co-located with ICWSMAre Gains Quiet and Losses Loud? Emotional Responses to Financial Booms and Crashes Online
- Accepted in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyBeyond Categories of Caste: Examining Caste Bias and Morality in Text-to-Image AI Models
- BMC Artificial Intelligence (Forthcoming)Communication Styles and Reader Preferences of LLM- and Human-authored COVID-19 Information Explanations: A Case Study
202516 papers
- International Conference on Human-Computer InteractionA Survey of Passive Sensing in the Workplace
- BIBMAgentic AI Framework for End-to-End Medical Data Inference
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25)AI on My Shoulder: Supporting Emotional Labor in Front-Office Roles with an LLM-based Empathetic Coworker
- HEALTHAI vs. Humans for Online Support: Comparing the Language of Responses from LLMs and Online Communities of Alzheimer’s Disease
- SBP-BRiMSAnalyzing Conspiratorial Content Across Singapore-Based Telegram Groups
- CSCW (T1)Balancing Caregiving and Self-Care: Exploring Mental Health Needs of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers
- ICWSM-25Deceptive Sound Therapy on Online Platforms: Do Mental Wellbeing Tracks Conform to User Expectations?
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25)Does Positive Reinforcement Work?: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effects of Positive Feedback on Reddit
- Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web ScienceEmails by LLMs: A Comparison of Language in AI-Generated and Human-Written Emails
- International Journal of Eating Disorders, (Impact Factor: 4.3)Generative AI for Eating Disorders: Linguistic Comparison with Online Support and Qualitative Analysis of HarmsWellbeing Effects of Disclosing Life Events on Social Media
- —In Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H), Association for Health Learning and Inference (AHLI), 2025
- ICWSM-25Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Social Media
202410 papers
- CHI (T1)Bystanders of Online Moderation: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Post-Removal Explanations
- CSCW (T1)Expectation Conformance in Online Sound Therapy: Designing Tools for Users of Mental Wellbeing Applications
- CSCW (T1)Improving Work-Nonwork Balance with Data-Driven Implementation Intention with Mental Contrasting
- CSCW (T1)Investigating How Gilds Were Employed On Reddit
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended AbstractsLLM-Mod: Can Large Language Models Assist Content Moderation?
- CHI (T1)Observer Effect in Social Media Use
- Nature Mental HealthRethinking Technology Innovation for Mental Health: Framework for Multi-Sectoral Collaboration
- CHIWORKTeacher, Trainer, Counsel, Spy: How Generative AI can Bridge or Widen the Gaps in Worker-Centric Digital Phenotyping of Wellbeing
- ICWSMThe LGBTQ+ minority stress on social media (MiSSoM) dataset: A labeled dataset for natural language processing and machine learning
- Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental HealthToward Tailoring Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention Systems for Workplace Stress Reduction: Exploratory Analysis of Intervention Implementation
202317 papers
- FAccTCan Workers Meaningfully Consent to Workplace Wellbeing Technologies?
- Workshop on Images in Online Political Communication, colocated with AAAI ICWSMCategorizing Memes about Abortion
- CSCW (T1)Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in Explainable AI: A Framework to Address the Gap in XAI
- IC2S2Does Papageno Effect Occur on Social Media?
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended AbstractsFocus Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers
- CHIWORKFocus Time: Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Protected Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers
- CHI (T1)Focused Time Saves Nine: Evaluating Computer-Assisted Protected Time for Hybrid Information Work
- Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing (mWell), co-located with ACIIInvestigating Self-supervised Learning for Predicting Stress and Stressors from Passive Sensing
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended AbstractsLessons Learned for Data-Driven Implementation Intentions with Mental Contrasting
- Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf/WWW)Mental Health Coping Stories on Social Media: A Causal-Inference Study of Papageno Effect
- Trauma, Violence, & AbuseMisogynistic Extremism: A Scoping Review
- JMIR Formative ResearchModeling gender dysphoria with social media for use in technology-delivered interventions: A machine learning and natural language processing validation study
Where alumni went20 listed
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