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Theia Henderson @theias.place · 12d

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications"
@karger.bsky.social and David Clark
doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 10d

yayyyyyy

Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 27d

Best program 😍😍😍

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 27d

I’ve been lucky to get the chance to work with some incredibly creative and talented undergrad researchers through this program! Help us spread the word to students who might be interested!

Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 27d

The Microsoft Research Undergraduate Internship Program offers 12-week internships in our Redmond, NYC, or New England labs for rising juniors and seniors who are passionate about technology. Apply by October 6: msft.it/6015scgSJ

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 29d

yaaaayyyy congrats!!!!! 🎊🍾🎉🎈

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · Jul 8

yay!

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · Jun 2

dude follow me back omg

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · Jun 2

I know I’m leaving but weird decision to bring it up in Tiziano’s post…

Lindsay Popowski @popowski.bsky.social · Jun 2

what is stanford hci going to do without our funniest member next year?

Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · May 22

Oh snap….. :( (and thank you ❤️)

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · May 22

I got GRFP this upcoming year and I’m attending Harvard in the fall, but I didn’t get any info on this…. on my portal it still says “awarded”

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · May 2

🥰🥰🥰

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Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · May 1

#CHI2025 = friends, friends, and friends (many not in the pics) 🥰 Research can be lonely, so moments like these are special! Thank you all for an amazing week of learning and fun. Hope to be back soon!!

Indu and Sunnie in front of the Yokohama city name sculpture

14 Princeton HCI folks in front of the CHI 2025 sign

A group of friends smiling at dinner in a ramen restaurant

Sunnie presenting her paper; the slide shows the paper title, authors, and funding acknowledgements

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · Apr 29

I am presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) my TOCHI Microsoft work “Generation Probabilities Are Not Enough: Uncertainty Highlighting in AI Code Completions” at ~11:55am in G301 :) should be fun 🥳

work done w/ @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @adamfourney.bsky.social @gaganbansal.bsky.social 🤩

Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · Apr 25

4. On Wednesday, @helenasresearch.bsky.social will present the TOCHI paper she led on the potential of uncertainty highlighting for fostering appropriate reliance on AI-powered code completion tools.

Program link: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Kaitlyn Zhou @ COLM @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · Apr 24

Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle!

An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!