Chenxinran Elise Shen

Thrilled to receive my 2nd Honorable Mention paper at #CHI2024! Both awarded papers investigate how voice can influence interpersonal communication, one within the context of online dating and the other in a paid game teammate online community. Thanks to my collaborators!

🎓 PhD Recruitment | Texas A&M CS I am seeking 1–2 PhD students for Fall 2026 in Human–AI Interaction, with a focus on AI for education. ✅ Motivated and responsible ✅ CS background ✅ Full-stack development or LLM fine-tuning experience is a plus 📅 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

I’m hiring students who are interested in multimodal generative AI / UI agent-related topics. My current vision is that we should have human-in-the-loop controllable UI generation models that adapt UIs to the diverse needs of designers and users + enhance human creativity.

vancouver is getting into summer ✨

Excited to present our #CHI2025 paper “HaloTouch: Using IR Multi-Path Interference to Support Touch Interactions with General Surfaces” at Yokohama tomorrow. The video is available on YouTube as well: youtube.com/watch?v=cQAW83…

Thrilled to share that our paper "To Rely or Not to Rely? Evaluating Interventions for Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models" received an Honorable Mention at #CHI2025! 🔥 preprint >> arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15584 video >> youtu.be/DR0UwF8A-ko

Canadian research funding opportunity 👉 ✨Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-Det…

My work from last summer in Finland with amazing scholars from @AaltoUniversity and @LMU_Muenchen has been published on Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference ⭐How will humans collaborate with their "augmented" counterparts in the future? thomaskosch.com/wp-content/pap…

@luzc08 Thanks Zhicong!

Congratulations, @ChenxinranS! Looking forward to seeing your future research

@nicolayr_ 😊 thanks Nicolay!

@ChenxinranS Congratulations 👏

200 citations reached! scholar.google.ca/citations?user…

📢 Looking for current research on #HCI + #AI? Here's a collection of 200+ #CHI2025 preprints, collected via arXiv and your suggestions: medium.com/human-centered…

New meta-analysis (2024) finds human-AI collaboration is task-dependent: performance increases for creative & open-ended tasks (like content creation), but performance drops for decision-making tasks; human-AI collaboration seems to work best when humans already outperform AI

Your brain's next 5 seconds, predicted by AI Transformer predicts brain activity patterns 5 seconds into future using just 21 seconds of fMRI data Achieves 0.997 correlation using modified time-series Transformer architecture ----- 🧠 Original Problem: Predicting future brain states from fMRI data remains challenging, especially for patients who can't undergo long scanning sessions. Current methods require extensive scan times and lack accuracy in short-term predictions. ----- 🔬 Solution in this Paper: → The paper introduces a modified time series Transformer with 4 encoder and 4 decoder layers, each containing 8 attention heads → The model takes a 30-timepoint window covering 379 brain regions as input and predicts the next brain state → Training uses Human Connectome Project data from 1003 healthy adults, with preprocessing including spatial smoothing and bandpass filtering → Unlike traditional approaches, this model omits look-ahead masking, simplifying prediction for single future timepoints ----- 🎯 Key Insights: → Temporal dependencies in brain states can be effectively captured using self-attention mechanisms → Short input sequences (21.6s) suffice for accurate predictions → Error accumulation follows a Markov chain pattern in longer predictions → The model preserves functional connectivity patterns matching known brain organization ----- 📊 Results: → Single timepoint prediction achieves MSE of 0.0013 → Accurate predictions up to 5.04 seconds with correlation >0.85 → First 7 predicted timepoints maintain high accuracy → Outperforms BrainLM with 20-timepoint MSE of 0.26 vs 0.568

1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. - Amos Tversky

Politeness Tier List Tier C: New Yorkers Tier B: US Southerners Tier A: Canadians Tier S: ICLR authors when replying to reviewers

Move to Canada! University of Toronto Department of Computer Science is hiring tenure-stream faculty at all levels. Apply Now! web.cs.toronto.edu/employment-opp…

UPDATE: PCs gave a desk reject and mark it as plagiarism.

Congrats Preeti ✨I am so happy for u girl