Amy X. Zhang
Associate Professor
Designs social computing and human-AI systems that improve online discourse and collaboration.
Amy X. Zhang's lab at UW works on human-AI collaboration & trust, social computing & responsible AI and computational social science. 53 papers since 2023. 7 PhD students and 4 master's students. 40 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 40
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 21 papers2025 · T1 0
- 15 papers2024 · T1 0
- 14 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI11 papers
- Computational social science10 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust3 papers
- human-ai systems0 papers
- improve0 papers
Paper list
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20263 papers
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHICocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIPolicyPad: Collaborative Prototyping of LLM Policies (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIPromptimizer: User-led prompt optimization for personal content classification (opens in a new tab)
202521 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9 (2), 1-30 CSCW"It's Great Because It's Ran By Us": Empowering Teen Volunteer Discord Moderators to Design Healthy and Engaging Youth-Led Online Communities (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency FAccTAfrican Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency FAccTAgonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCWBuilding Proactive and Instant-Reactive Safety Designs to Address Harassment in Social Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHICanvil: Designerly Adaptation for LLM-Powered User Experiences (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Collective Intelligence CICase Law Grounding: Using Precedents to Align Decision-Making for Humans and AI (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIEnd User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Creativity & Cognition C&CFrom Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI into their Writing Practice (opens in a new tab)
- Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Knight First Amendment InstituteLevels of Autonomy for AI Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Language Models COLMLLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus PNAS NexusPerceived Legitimacy of Layperson and Expert Content Moderators (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCWPerceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency FAccT(A)I Am Not a Lawyer, But...: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice (opens in a new tab)
- Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education SIGCSEBringing Social Computing to Secondary School Classrooms (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems 2 (3), 1-57 Transactions on Recommender SystemsBuilding Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWForm-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Language Models COLMLanguage Models as Critical Thinking Tools: A Case Study of Philosophers (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSMMaking Online Communities' Better': A Taxonomy of Community Values on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIMapping the Design Space of Teachable Social Media Feed Experiences (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWMeeting Bridges: Designing Information Artifacts that Bridge from Synchronous Meetings to Asynchronous Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWMisinformation as a Harm: Structured Approaches for Fact-Checking Prioritization (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIMitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIPika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online Communities (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy S&PPrivate Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging (opens in a new tab)
202314 papers
- Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security SOUPS"Is Reporting Worth the Sacrifice of Revealing What I Have Sent?": Privacy Considerations When Reporting on End-to-End Encrypted Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHICiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing HCOMPConfidence Contours: Uncertainty-Aware Annotation for Medical Semantic Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- Social Media + Society Social Media + SocietyDecentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-level Governance in Online Social Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- New Media & Society New Media & SocietyDo users want platform moderation or individual control? Examining the role of third-person effects and free speech support in shaping moderation preferences (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWExamining the Impact of Provenance-Enabled Media on Trust and Accuracy Perceptions (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Mining Software Repositories MSRGitHub OSS Governance File Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWJudgment Sieve: Reducing Uncertainty in Group Judgments through Interventions Targeting Ambiguity versus Disagreement (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology UISTPapeos: Augmenting Research Papers with Talk Videos (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCWPersonalizing Content Moderation on Social Media: User Perspectives on Moderation Choices, Interface Design, and Labor (opens in a new tab)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHIRelatedly: Scaffolding Literature Reviews with Existing Related Work Sections (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency FAccTSkin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went40 listed
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