Hi! My name is Rock Yuren Pang (逄郁任 páng yùrèn). I’m a fifth fourth third-year 😱 Ph.D. student at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am broadly working in responsible AI and human-AI interaction. I work with Katharina Reinecke. I aim to align the goals of responsible computing with the realities of computing research practices, especially in the early stages of designing technologies.. My current focus is to build new tools to support researchers and practitioners to understand the existing bias at scale and leverage the crowd's wisdom to anticipate potential adverse effects. I am also interested in accessibility, data visualization, cross-culture usability of technology and HCI.
I have been a research intern at Microsoft Research with Danielle Bragg in 2024 and Allison Koenecke in 2022. I spent four wonderful years at Macalester College, where I worked with Shilad Sen.
🔶 News & Travel
- Oct 2024: Program Committee member at IUI'25
- Jun 2024: Started my internship at Microsoft Research at NYC with Danielle Bragg.
- Jun 2024: 1 short paper on accessible map visualization was accepted to VIS'2024.
- Apr 2024: Our guide on accessible STEM classrooms won the 2024 UW Digital Accessibility Award
- Sept 2023: Thanks Allen School News for covering our work!
- Apr 2023: 1 paper accepted to FAccT 2023!! See you in Chicago!
- Mar 2023: Start my part-time internship at Clearbrief.ai
- Mar 2023: 1 paper accepted to Design Policy Workshop at CHI'23
- Jan 2023: 1 paper accepted to CHI 2023, 1 other was rejected the second round :(
- Nov 2022: Student Volunteer at CSCW 2022
- Oct 2022: Presented at VDS@VIS Symposium
- Sept 2022: TA'ed for CSE547 with Dr. Tim Altoff at UW
- May 2022: Presented at CHI2022
- Mar 2022: Started my internship at Microsoft Research with Dr. Allison Koenecke!
- Jan 2022: TA'ed for CSE440 at UW
- Nov 2021: Presented Apéritif at UW Colloquium
- Sept 2021: Submitted my first paper to CHI2022 as the first author
- May 2021: Attended CHI 2021
- Dec 2020: Moved to Seattle
- Oct 2020: Started my PhD program at UW
📜 Publication
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BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologies Using LLM.
Rock Yuren Pang, Sebastin Santy, René Just, Katharina Reinecke. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'24). Hawaiʻi, USA, May 2024.
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Auditing Cross-Cultural Consistency of Human-Annotated Labels for Recommendation Systems.
Rock Yuren Pang*, Jack Cenatempo*, Franklyn Graham, Bridgette Kuehn, Maddy Whisenant, Portia Botchway, Katie Stone Perez and Allison Koenecke. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23). Chicago, IL, June 2023.
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“That’s important, but...”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research Innovations.
Rock Yuren Pang*, Kimberly Do*, Jiachen Jiang, Katharina Reinecke. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23). Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
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How Do Data Scientists Communicate Intermediate Results?
Rock Yuren Pang, Ruotong Wang, Joely Nelson, Leilani Battle. Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS@VIS'22). Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 2022.
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Apéritif: Scaffolding Preregistrations to Automatically Generate Analysis Code and Methods Descriptions.
Rock Yuren Pang, Katharina Reinecke, René Just. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22). New Orleans, LA, April 2022.
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🦥 Short Papers
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AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization.
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich. To Appear at IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS'24) Short Paper Track. St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, October 2024.
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The Case for Anticipating Undesirable Consequences of Computing Innovations Early, Often, and Across Computer Science
Rock Yuren Pang, Dan Grossman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Katharina Reinecke. ArXiv
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Anticipating Unintended Consequences of Technology Using Insights from Creativity Support Tools.
Rock Yuren Pang, Katharina Reinecke. Design & Policy Workshop @ CHI '23. Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
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🏆 Honors
- 2024 UW Digital Accessibility Award for making the Accessibility Guide for Data Science and STEM Classes [Link]
- UW CSE Educators’ Endowed Fellowship (2020) [link]
- Macalester Ezra J. Camp Endowed Prize in Mathematics (2020) [link]
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