Hi! I’m a second-year PhD student at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I work with Katharina Reinecke. I aim to study how people from diverse backgrounds view 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 data visualization, cross-culture usability of technology and HCI.
I have been a research intern at Microsoft Research with Allison Koenecke. I spent four wonderful years at Macalester College, where I worked with Shilad Sen.
🔶 News & Travel
- 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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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.
To Appear in ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23). Chicago, IL, June 2023.
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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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“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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🏆 Honors
- UW CSE Educators’ Endowed Fellowship (2020) [link]
- Macalester Ezra J. Camp Endowed Prize in Mathematics (2020) [link]
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