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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to share that our paper “Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment” has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025 (Position Track)! 🎉
- NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09264
🧡Huge thanks to our incredible co-authors. We'll present this paper @ San Diego. Look forward to chatting more! ☕

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you for featuring my research! It’s been a truly wonderful time at @ischool.uw.edu with my amazing advisor and colleagues—full of learning, growth, and exciting research opportunities🌟. Love to connect with more people to explore new exciting ideas and collaborations 🤗

University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · Jul 17

Meet Dr. Hua Shen, a postdoctoral scholar at the iSchool whose research explores responsible human-AI collaboration! She empowers humans to explain, evaluate and collaborate with AI systems interactively.

An image of Hua Shen with trees in the background

Purple background with the text "What impact do you hope your research will have?" at the top, followed by the text "“I hope my research will fundamentally reshape how humans and AI systems collaborate—by making AI not only more capable but also more aligned with human values, needs, and agency. My goal is to create AI systems that are safe, understandable, and ethically grounded, while also empowering people to critically engage with and guide these systems in real time.

Ultimately, I aim for my research to democratize AI: enabling individuals and communities—not just experts or institutions—to responsibly assess, steer, and co-evolve with AI. I envision a future where human-AI collaboration enhances human capabilities, fosters inclusive innovation, and safeguards societal well-being.”

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JaeWon Kim @jaewonk.bsky.social · Jul 14

Following up on last year’s Positech workshop, thrilled to announce our workshop @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 on how design might help us cultivate deliberate hope in the face of complex societal challenges, whether in our everyday or broader aspirations 🌱

cfp 👉 positech-cscw-2025.github.io

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you for sponsoring and supporting our 👫Bifirectional Human-AI Alignment🤖 2025 #ICLR workshop and #CHI SIG!
🤗Welcome to join our Zoom live stream and Slack virtual poster expo tomorrow on 4/28!
👉Check schedule: bialign-workshop.github.io#/schedule

Prolific @joinprolific.bsky.social · Apr 26

🦾 Only 2 days until the Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop, sponsored by Prolific and Layer 6 AI.

This workshop focuses on a paradigm shift in how we approach the challenge of human-AI alignment. You can attend at #ICLR2025 in Singapore (where we'll be)🇸🇬, or #CHI2025 in Japan! 🇯🇵 #AcademicSky

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚀 #ICLR2025 & #CHI2025 are approaching! Check our schedule and accepted papers of #BiAlign👫-🤖 events!

🏅Golden Sponsors🏅: Thanks to our generous sponsors: 🌟Prolific @joinprolific.bsky.social and 🌟Layer6 AI. Supporting our travel and paper awards!

@iclr-conf.bsky.social @chi.acm.org @ischool.uw.edu

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚀 BiAlign 🚀 Thrilled to announce 72 papers have been accepted to our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop at #ICLR2025 & #CHI SIG! 🎉 Thanks to 80+ reviewers for their contributions! 🙏

🤗 Join us and check details: bialign-workshop.github.io!
@iclr-conf.bsky.social @chi.acm.org @ischool.uw.edu

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Feb 5

🔥Exciting news! Our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment is expanding—we’re hosting 2025 #ICLR workshop & #CHI SIG! 🚀Join leading minds from #HCI & #AI experts to explore how humans & AI align, choose to present your work at #ICLR or #CHI! ✨

@iclr-conf.bsky.social @chi.acm.org @ischool.uw.edu

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy New Year, everyone!🌟If you’re interested in our ICLR’25 workshop of👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment, check out our website for more details: bialign-workshop.github.io! Our submission portal is also live now. 😃 Excited to see you join and present your cool work! @iclr-conf.bsky.social 🚀

Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment!

🦋 We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yes! We’ll have a zoom link for online participants too ☺️

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Tiffany Knearem @tknearem.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢 Are you attending #ICLR2025 this year, with interest in human-centered AI alignment? Consider joining our workshop! Hear from leaders in the field, and join in on discussions around various alignment topics. Since most of my audience is HCI -- this workshop is also for you!

Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment!

🦋 We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Dec 10

Working on finding alignment gaps in the latest AI models? Do you have applications that suggest LLMs/MMLMs are doing better than human workers? Have you proved the need to work on aligning AI to humans?

Yes? If you are working on alignment research-consider submitting a paper to our workshop@ICLR

Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment!

🦋 We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

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Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment!

🦋 We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

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