👋 About Me

Hi! 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.

My research is supported by IBM PhD Fellowship. 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.

📜 Publications

Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review

Rock Yuren Pang, Hope Schroeder, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Solon Barocas, Ziang Xiao, Emily Tseng, Danielle Bragg

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.

Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Sidewalk Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps

Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Delphine Labbé, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.

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.

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.

🦥 Short Papers

Sociotechnical AI Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for HCI

Kevin Feng*, Rock Yuren Pang*, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Amy A. Winecoff, Emily Tseng, David Gray Widder, Harini Suresh, Katharina Reinecke, Amy X. Zhang

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstract (CHI EA'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS'24) Short Paper Track. St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, October 2024.

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

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.

🏆 Honors

🦘 Fun

I used to triple jump and run track and field and do mock trial in college. I sometimes cook, ski, or hike. I'm from Qingdao, China, a city that brews the best beer in the world 🍻 :)