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Ian Arawjo

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Ian Arawjo

@IanArawjo

Asst Prof @UMontreal, PhD @CornellInfoSci. Creator of @chainforge_ai. Programming and culture, intercultural CS, LLM evaluation. Prev: Postdoc @HarvardHci

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Joined May 2011

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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Oct 16, 2025
Hi folks, Montréal HCI is (still) recruiting! 🇨🇦 We are looking to hire PhD students excited research human-AI interaction, on topics including AI memory, pen-based interfaces and notation, and creative support in writing and game design. Reach out and feel free to share widely!
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Sep 28, 2023
Overleaf did it. They really did it.
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Oct 20, 2023
😂 “I don’t have time to listen to your complaints” “I’m not your therapist”
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
May 23, 2023
Introducing ChainForge, a visual programming environment for prompting and evaluating responses across multiple LLMs:
Introducing ChainForge: A visual programming environment for prompt engineering
From ianarawjo.medium.com
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Feb 14, 2024
Most AIs are sycophants. What if we built antagonistic AI? 😈 Check out our working paper (w/ @_alicecai and @roboticwrestler ) wherein we argue that we should explore AI that are purposefully antagonistic towards users. No, seriously: (1/10)
arxiv.org
Antagonistic AI
The vast majority of discourse around AI development assumes that subservient, "moral" models aligned with "human values" are universally beneficial -- in short, that good AI is sycophantic AI. We...
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Apr 20, 2023
Happy to announce that come January, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Montreal! There, I will conduct research at the intersection of programming, HCI, and AI. Excited to become a Canadian again! 🇨🇦
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Oct 20, 2023
Replying to @IanArawjo
🤣
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Nov 22, 2022
Replying to @EzraJNewman
Shocking, esp. since CoPilot's training set probably contains an over-representation of code examples derived from programming homework assignments in 200 level CS classes
Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Jun 6, 2024
Wrote up some thoughts on a growing problem I see with HCI conference submissions: the influx of what can only be called LLM wrapper papers, and what we might do about it. Here is "LLM Wrapper Papers are Hurting HCI Research":
LLM Wrapper Papers are Hurting HCI Research
From ianarawjo.medium.com
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Oct 19, 2025
Reviewing CHI papers be like: “The rise of LLMs has revolutionized… Yet, X task has not yet benefited from LLMs… We apply a novel LLM-based solution to X… We conducted a within-subjects user study against a non-LLM baseline, finding our solution makes X faster and easier”
GIF
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Sep 3, 2023
Happy to announce that, upon starting as an Assistant Prof at the University of Montréal, I will become an official associate of the MILA-Quebec AI Institute! 🥳🎉 (Thanks to my future colleagues for making this happen!)
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Feb 17, 2022
Replying to @cesifoti and @ruha9
For anyone doubting these dynamics: Adrian Piper wrote a book about her tenure “process” and subsequent “escape” from the US to live in Germany. The academic dynamics in the US were so traumatic and dehumanizing, she refuses to ever come back: adrianpiper.com/books/Escape_T…
Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
May 22, 2024
The one paper I can't stop thinking about from #CHI2024 is the nocebo effect paper: "The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI". This was really stellar work with wide ramifications for the field. Should've gotten Best Paper. arxiv.org/abs/2309.16606
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Ian Arawjo
@IanArawjo
Dec 15, 2022
Passed defense!🎓🥳 (no revisions required!)
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