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🤖🧠I study how to design and build AI systems that can responsibly engage with humans in complex social exchanges. My work applies and extends core socio-cognitive processes like Theory of Mind to design adaptive and socially aligned human–AI interactions across online learning and everyday contexts.

🚀💫 I’m on the job market for academic (tenure-track) and industry research positions!

👋I am a Postdoc Fellow at @hcii.cmu.edu working at the intersection of human-AI interaction, cognitive science, responsible AI, design, and social computing. I earned my PhD from @gtresearch.bsky.social in 2024.

🔭 Searching for a postdoc to join me at @nyutandon ! Focus on human-AI interaction x mental wellbeing research x future of work. Expert? Interested? You should apply! apply.interfolio.com/163899

📧 Questions? Email me w/ sub: [Prospective Postdoc]

Position starts asap!

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CfP: tominhai-cui2025.github.io/about/

🚨 Deadline extended! You now have 2 more weeks to submit — new deadline is June 2! Don’t miss it — spread the word! 📢 @cui.acm.org

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Woohoo!! Congrats Sunnie!! 🎉🎊 It was so nice to hang out with you at CHI. Hope we get to do that again soon. Will send you my recs for Seattle 😝

Rethinking Theory of Mind Benchmarks for LLMs: Towards A User-Centered Perspective The last couple of years have witnessed emerging research that appropriates Theory-of-Mind (ToM) tasks designed for humans to benchmark LLM's ToM capabilities as an indication of LLM's social intellig...

On Saturday, I attended the HEAL workshop and presented our position paper “Rethinking Theory of Mind Benchmark: Towards a User-Centered Perspective.” Check it out! Full paper available on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10839

I am attending CHI2025 in Japan 🇯🇵 Would love to meet old and new friends. I will be at the Monday reception— catch me if you want to chat about Theory of Mind, human-AI interaction, postdoc life, and more!

Dr. Su Lin Blodgett and Dr. Gagan Bansal will be the keynote speakers of the 2nd HEAL workshop @CHI25

We are excited to kick off the 2nd HEAL workshop tomorrow at #CHI2025. Dr. Su Lin Blodgett and Dr. Gagan Bansal from MSR will be our keynote speakers!

Welcome new and old friends! See you at G221!

All accepted papers: tinyurl.com/bdfpjcr4

The government is using universities to do basic research that the private sector would never do at rates lower than the private sector would charge (thanks to the cheap labor of grad students).

Basic research has been good for this nation.

New piece on Decolonial AI Alignment by @krvarshney.bsky.social now published in our Human-Centered AI Medium publication! Check it out 👉

with @joelwester.bsky.social , Marvin Pafla, Minha Lee, Justin Weisz, Mei Si

🚀 We’re back! Join us for the Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction in-person workshop at CUI 2025 in Waterloo, ON, Canada on July 8! 🤖💡

Let's explore the role of ToM in human-CUI interaction. Submit your work by May 16!

🔗 Details: tominhai-cui2025.github.io

"Fostering Appropriate Reliance on LLMs" received an Honorable Mention at #CHI2025!

This work is also the last chapter of my dissertation, so the recognition feels more special🏅🎓😊

🎉 to the team @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @tanialombrozo.bsky.social Olga Russakovsky

How does using GenAI tools reshape knowledge workers’ critical thinking? Our #CHI2025 paper studied 319 knowledge workers to dive into this question. w/@advaitsarkar.bsky.social @levlevlev.bsky.social Ian, Sean, Richard, Nick @msftresearch.bsky.social @hcii.cmu.edu

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Image of the first page of the CHI 2025 paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies" by authors Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett

How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n

Our FATE MTL team has been working on a series of projects on anthropomorphic AI systems for which we recently put out a few pre-prints I’m excited about. While working on these we tried to think carefully not only about key research questions but also how we study and write about these systems

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.

It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.

More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...

Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

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 🚀

Poster with details on the workshop: Workshop Themes: The workshop invites a multidisciplinary community to explore questions related to Generative AI (GenAI) and human cognition: Relevant theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting human thinking with GenAI. Opportunities and challenges for designing GenAI systems that protect and augment human cognition. Methods to study and measure the impact of current and novel GenAI systems. The impact of GenAI on human skills and workflows. Principles and guidelines for designing GenAI systems to protect and augment cognition. Organizers: The workshop is organized by a group of researchers from institutions like Microsoft Research, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Tableau Research, University of Toronto, IBM Research, University College London, and Stanford University. Notable names include: Lev Tanklevitch (Microsoft Research) Elena Glassman (Harvard University) Hari Subramonyam (Stanford University) Goals: To build a community and develop research frameworks, theories, principles, and systems for understanding and designing tools that use GenAI to augment or protect human cognition.

Excited to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought! 🎉 Join us in exploring how Generative AI can understand, protect, and augment human cognition. Submit your work to help shape this critical conversation!

🔗 Details & Submission: aka.ms/toolsforthou...
⏳ Deadline: Feb 13, 2025 (AoE)

200bn Weights of Responsibility The Stress of Working in Modern AI

RIP to Felix Hill. We overlapped at Cambridge ages ago but I remember him as an ebullient and witty conversationalist, plus kind and introspective. His blog post is relevant to anyone, even if not directly working in AI, experiencing stress from the pace of research <3 medium.com/@felixhill/2...

At #NeurIPS2024, the keynote speaker perpetuated explicit racist stereotypes against Chinese students. Generalizations against a community subject to discrimination, even as an “example”, further provokes discrimination. Below, video of an audience member’s perfect response.

NeurIPS acknowledges that the cultural generalization made by the keynote speaker today reinforces implicit biases by making generalisations about Chinese scholars. This is not what NeurIPS stands for. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a safe space for all of us. 1/3

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This is awesome! Could you add me too? Thanks!

Could I be added here? I’m a postdoc fellow at Carnegie Mellon University working on Mutual Theory of Mind in human-AI interaction. Thank you!!