Ziang Xiao

CS faculty receive 2025 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards Winning projects—chosen from 274 proposals—include 150 individuals from across the university.

Congratulations to Jason Eisner, @ghadfield.bsky.social, @danielkhashabi.bsky.social, @tom-lippincott.bsky.social, Benjamin Van Durme, and @ziangxiao.bsky.social on their Discovery Awards!

Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption-handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots

Johns Hopkins researchers including @victor-antony.bsky.social and @ziangxiao.bsky.social‬ have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions—a breakthrough for areas like health care and education where natural conversation is crucial.

New faculty Q&A: Ziang Xiao Get to know Ziang Xiao, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science.

Learn more about @ziangxiao.bsky.social’s research in our new Q&A!

The Aug 8th deadline is only a few days away! If you have awesome HCI+NLP work to share, submit it to our workshop! sites.google.com/view/hciandnlp

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

Faux Polyglot: A Study on Information Disparity in Multilingual Large Language Models With Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing a pivotal role in information search and are being adopted globally. Although the multilingual capability of LLMs of...

Thrilled that our paper Faux Polyglot has been accepted to #NAACL2025 main! 🚀
We show that multilingual RAG creates language-specific information cocoons and amplifies perspectives and facts in the dominant language, especially when handling knowledge conflicts.
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2407.05502

Glad to organize HEAL again at CHI2025 with a special theme of "Mind the Context"!

Had a lot of fun teaching a tutorial on Human-Centered Evaluation of Language Technologies at #EMNLP2024, w/ @ziangxiao.bsky.social, Su Lin Blodgett, and Jackie Cheung

We just posted the slides on our tutorial website: human-centered-eval.github.io