Tim Althoff
Associate Professor
Builds data science and NLP methods on large-scale behavioral data, including human-AI collaboration for mental health support.
Tim Althoff's lab at UW works on human-AI collaboration & trust, accessibility, health & wellbeing and data management & big data. 25 papers since 2023, mostly Findings of EMNLP. 6 PhD students. 17 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 17
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 0
- 9 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Findings of EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-AI collaboration & trust8 papers
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing4 papers
- Data management & big data4 papers
- nlp methods0 papers
- behavioral data0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- · Nature Machine IntelligenceCapable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- · ICWSMHow Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences (opens in a new tab)
- · ACLInferring Events from Time Series using Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- · ICLR Workshop: Recursive Self-ImprovementSelf-Improving VLM Judges Without Human Annotations (opens in a new tab)
- · ICLRSynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- · Nature CommunicationsTransforming wearable data into personal health insights using large language model agents (opens in a new tab)
20253 papers
- · CSCWPerceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance (opens in a new tab)
- · NeurIPSRADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data (opens in a new tab)
- · ICWSMReddit Rules and Rulers: Quantifying the Link Between Rules and Perceptions of Governance Across Thousands of Communities (opens in a new tab)
20249 papers
- · NeurIPSAre Language Models Actually Useful for Time Series Forecasting? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPBLADE: Benchmarking Language Model Agents for Data-Driven Science (opens in a new tab)
- · CHIFacilitating Self-Guided Mental Health Interventions Through Human-Language Model Interaction: A Case Study of Cognitive Restructuring (opens in a new tab)
- · CHIHow Do Data Analysts Respond to AI Assistance? A Wizard-of-Oz Study (opens in a new tab)
- · ACLIMBUE: Improving Interpersonal Effectiveness through Simulation and Just-in-time Feedback with Human-Language Model Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPLanguage Models Still Struggle to Zero-shot Reason about Time Series (opens in a new tab)
- · ICWSMMaking Online Communities ‘Better’: A Taxonomy of Community Values on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
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- · Nature Mental HealthRethinking technology innovation for mental health: framework for multi-sectoral collaboration (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- · ACLCognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- · IMWUTGLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- · CHILHomekit2020: A Benchmark for Time Series Classification on a Large Mobile Sensing Dataset with Laboratory Tested Ground Truth of Influenza Infections (opens in a new tab)
- · Nature Machine IntelligenceHuman–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support (opens in a new tab)
- · JMIR Formative ResearchMapping User Engagement in Digital Psychotherapy: An Integrative Engagement Model (opens in a new tab)
- · CHILSelf-supervised Pretraining and Transfer Learning Enable Flu and COVID-19 Predictions in Small Mobile Sensing Datasets (opens in a new tab)
- · CHIUnderstanding and Supporting Debugging Workflows in Multiverse Analysis (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went17 listed
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