Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.
Spring 2025
April 11, 2025
Cecilia Aragon will be a panelist on the “Lab to Industry: Universities and Research Labs Leading the AI Revolution” panel at the Transatlantic AI eXchange Remarkable Women in AI (RWIAI) 2025 event on April 24, 2025.
Brett Halperin was a panelist on the “Community Sustainability and Engagement” panel at the “Examining Critical Sociotechnical Challenges in Information Science” Symposium at Rutgers University on April 4, 2025.
Julie Kientz with co-authors, Carol Miller, Hedda Meadan, Abbie Olszewski and Jinjun Xiong had an article, “Supporting Speech-Language Pathologists in Schools With Interdisciplinary Team Science: A Viewpoint From the National Artificial Intelligence Institute for Exceptional Education,” published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.
Kate Starbird was quoted in the NPR article, “How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings.”
Nupur Gorkar (HCDE Undergraduate) has been selected for the Summer 2025 cohort of the UW Population Health Initiative’s Applied Research Fellows. The Fellows program seeks to offer students training in data analysis, critical thinking and team science skills that will help them solve complex population health challenges on their way to becoming future leaders in population health.
April 4, 2025
David Ribes, with collaborators Stephen Molldrem, Marika Cifor, and Andrew Spieldenner, hosted the Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Year 2 Workshop at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas on March 26-28, 2025. The network of 30+ leading critical scholars of HIV/AIDS hosts the annual workshop and fosters scholarly community to build intellectual infrastructure in support of social and critical scholarship about HIV/AIDS in STS and adjacent fields. Steven Epstein was keynote speaker for the two-day event.
Kevin Feng will be a panelist at the Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms Symposium hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on April 10, 2025.
Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Serena Jinchen Xie, Carolin Spice, Patrick Wedgeworth, Raina Langevin, Kevin Lybarger, Angad Preet Singh, Brian Wood, Jared Klein, Herbert Duber, and Andrea Hartzler, had an article, “Patient and clinician acceptability of automated extraction of social drivers of health from clinical notes in primary care” published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Cecilia Aragon, with co-authors Jared Hand, Alex Kim, Pierre Antilogus, Stephen Bailey, Charles Baltay, Kyle Boone, Clément Buton, Yannick Copin, Samantha Dixon, Dominique Fouchez, Emmanuel Gangler, Ravi Gupta, Brian Hayden, Mitchell Karmen, Marek Kowalski, Daniel Küsters, Pierre-François Léget, Jakob Nordin, Reynald Pain, Saul Perlmutter, Kara Ponder, David Rabinowitz, Mickael Rigault, David Rubin, Clare Saunders, Nao Suzuki, Stefan Taubenberger, R. C. Thomas, and Maria Vincenzi, had an article, “An Agnostic Approach to Building Empirical Type Ia Supernova Light Curves: Evidence for Intrinsic Chromatic Flux Variation Using Nearby Supernova Factory Data” published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Cecilia Aragon was featured on KCBS-LA’s Mission Unstoppable television show in “Using math to fly.”
Kate Starbird was quoted in the New York Times article, “Trump leads a ‘machinery’ of misinformation in second term.”