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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])
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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])
@FarnazJ_
Assistant prof at @UMichCSE, PhD @MIT_CSAIL, Postdoc at @StanfordHAI | HCI, Social Computing & Human-AI Interaction
Joined January 2021
- 📢 I'm recruiting PhD students for fall 2024 to join my new research lab at @UMichCSE! Interested in social computing systems that empower people? Consider applying! Please spread the word 📢
- 📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at @UMichCSE! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
- 2 (rather overdue but still very exciting) announcements: I’ll be joining @UMichCSE as an assistant professor in fall 2024! And this year, I’ll be a postdoc at @StanfordHAI working with @sanmikoyejo and @msbernst! Beyond thrilled for these next steps 😊
- PhD Defense ✅ Incredibly lucky and grateful to have been advised by @karger and to have had @arvindsatya1 and @AdamBerinsky on my dissertation committee!
- 🚨 Paper alert!🚨 We show how enabling users to moderate misinformation can be deployed everywhere on the web, in a platform-agnostic manner and without support from the social platforms or individual web sites arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11485… #CHI24 with @karger 🧵
- I’m on the job market! I design and build systems that reimagine the design of social information spaces (SM platforms and the web) to increase end-user empowerment and reliability of online content. Please get in touch if you know of any relevant industry or academic positions!
- 📢 Excited to share our upcoming #CHI2023 paper. The result of an internship @IBMResearch and collaborating with my awesome mentors @dakuowang , @michael_muller, @lucian_popa_us, and Yannis Katsis people.csail.mit.edu/farnazj/pdfs/E… 1/n
- Struggling to fall back asleep when I gain the slightest amount of consciousness, lying in bed debating for hours if I should check the news on Iran, knowing that I won’t be able to sleep if I do—or if I don’t.
- Thanks for making my time here so wonderful! I'll miss you all so much! ❤️
- By a show of hands, who is going to #CHI2023? 🙋♀️ Looking forward to meeting new friends and catching up with old ones!
- 📢Our Browser Extension Lets Readers Change the Headlines on News Articles, and You Won't Believe What They Did!📢 Come find out what they did tomorrow (Nov 9, 22:50 ET) or Nov 15 at the #CSCW2022 Fact Checking session. With @amyxzh, @kkarahal, & @karger. people.csail.mit.edu/farnazj/pdfs/S…
- Journalist friends, we have built 2 browser extensions that we hope can help you in your quest for delivering truthful content to people. We’d like your help in evaluating them through a user study: bit.ly/3LfKj2h. Please r/t. 1/3
