Emily Wall

CAV lab graduate #2! Congratulations Dr. Yanan Da! Yanan defended in the fall and we celebrated on Saturday with her hooding ceremony. Yanan is now a founding engineer at AI startup Akify 🚀 #proudadvisor

Pre-prints available: - Spotify Warped: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/S… - Belief Elicitation: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B… - Behavior Change: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B…

🚨 Three papers from CAV Lab and collaborators this week at @acm_chi - @td_viz will present on personal informatics with Spotify Warped; @don_kordeone will present on belief elicitation; and @leibatt will be presenting on behavior change interventions for responsible data science

I’ve finally reached peak academic narcissism: according to this email, my primary research specialty is "Furong Huang." 🫠 Not only am I the subject of my own research, but I’ve also apparently mastered "distributed systems", because, as the logic goes, we "distributed" images to participants in our watermarking competition? 🤣 I love a good reach, but this is a yoga pose. Jokes aside, to the students who are actually interested: I am truly sorry. Your thoughtful, genuine emails are being buried under a mountain of this agent-generated noise. If you want to stand out, please: • Ditch the templates. If a bot could have written it, a human probably won't read it. • Be specific. Mention a specific finding or a question you had about a paper, not just the title. • Show the "Why." How does your specific background actually bridge to our work? (And no, "distributing images" doesn't count as systems experience!) Final thought on the AI Agent Era: Attention is our most precious currency, perhaps the only truly finite resource we have left. While agents make it "free" to generate content, they make it incredibly expensive to consume it. We have to start protecting our own attention and, more importantly, respecting the attention of others. If you don't respect someone's time enough to proofread an email, don't expect them to invest their time in your career. #AcademicTwitter #ML #GenAI #AttentionEconomy

Running more participants this week! Please sign up if you are a Master's or PhD student in visualization :)

🚨Calling vis researchers for a user study! We are interested in how people use AI/LLMs in literature research. 🕐 Time: ~75 minutes 🗓️ When: Week of March 16-20 💸 Compensation: £10 to a charity If interested, fill out this survey: forms.gle/bRjUxLPgYENBSz… 🔄Please retweet!

@acm_chi Shiyao Li will present his paper Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Using Visual and Textual Channels to Understand Attitudes and Beliefs

Three papers coming out at @acm_chi 2026 #proudadvisor (see thread). Pre-prints all on my website: emilywall.github.io/publications.h…

@acm_chi Ziwei Dong, Ph.D. will present his paper Evaluating Behavior Change Interventions for Responsible Data Science

@acm_chi Thomas Davidson will present his paper Spotify Warped: Reshaping Personal Informatics via Music Listening, Casual Users, Passive Data & Episodic Reflection

US based undergrads - check out this opportunity to do a summer research internship with @uwdub faculty members!

🚨New book🚨 My new book with Springer is part of the "Synthesis Lectures on Visualization" series -- introducing "Human Bias in Visual Data Analysis: A Synthesis of Research to Empower Decision Makers" -- available open access here: ⛓️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

📢 2026 Summer Internship Our group at Microsoft Research is now accepting applications for PhDs interested in multimodality, reasoning, and agents. If you or someone you know is looking for a research internship, please help spread the word! 🔗 Apply: aka.ms/rwe-intern 📩 Send your CV to zhang.sheng@microsoft.com. Thanks for helping great candidates find their next opportunity!

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @MSFTResearch in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

🚨Upcoming CSCW paper -- find out how we translate behavior change theories common in digital health into the domain of responsible data science. 4-minute read on Medium, which also links to the full paper 🔗: medium.com/acm-cscw/behav… Come say hi in Bergen for my first ever #CSCW!

Grad school season reminder: many CS departments run student-led pre-application mentorship programs for prospective PhD applicants (due Oct. You can get feedback from current PhD students! Eg - UW’s CSE PAMS: cs.washington.edu/academics/grad… - MIT EECS GAAP: eecs-gaap.mit.edu 🧵

🆕Paper alert: to be presented #Interact2025 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil next week! ✅Simple visual highlighting in recommendation letters can be used to exacerbate or mitigate the effects of gender bias. 📜Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B…

📢 AI is changing the way we create, learn, & reason. But is it augmenting human cognition, or dulling it? Please submit your ideas to our #HCI Special Issue: Generative AI in Tools for Thought. Abstract Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 → tinyurl.com/t4tcfp

@yalong_yang @ICatGT @gtcomputing @NSF Huge congrats Yalong!

Our very own IVI.Lab @ICatGT @gtcomputing received the prestigious @NSF CAREER award to build the future of immersive analytics and spatial computing (VR/AR)! Super grateful & endless thanks to my students, mentors & collaborators! Interested in working together? Let's chat! 🥽

Thanks for joining us @EmoryUniversity today!