I am excited to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UIUC @IllinoisCS in Fall 2023!! ❤️🎊🎉 Immensely thankful beyond words to my wife and many many folks beyond this slide and the whole community of you all to help get me here. 🙏

The first keynote @kous2v, who won the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award last year, is on stage 🎤

Our poster is at CHI 2026 in Barcelona — 2:15–3:45 PM at the Posters session! I won't be there but my amazing teammates @oliviapal15, @_agam_goyal_ , @DGoel58766, advised by @kous2v, will be presenting. Stop by if you're interested in human-AI interaction or educational AI!

Ever gotten lost in a large conference? me... constantly 😅 That's why I built PapersClaw.fun — starting with CHI'26. What it does: 📅 Build a conflict-free schedule in 3 clicks — auto-detects time overlaps across your papers, sessions, and topics you care about. Your schedule lives in your local browser only. No server. No tracking. 🐢 Meet Turtle, your personal scheduling agent. It finds the real gaps in your schedule and suggests: "You've got 30 minutes after this talk. Want to signal you're up for coffee?" One tap drops a pin on the floor map. No calendar invite. No LinkedIn DM. Visible only to people signed in with work or school accounts. 🔍 More agents to help you find collaborators and discover work from unexpected corners of the field. These features I use all these features myself! 😃 🚀🚀🚀 Early launch is live now! 🔜Coming soon: 🪝 PapersClaw APIs — raise your own "claw fish" (OpenClaw #OpenClaw bots 🦞🦞) in the vast ocean of literature. Request access in the app, first come first served. 📱 Mobile-friendly version before conference day! Huge thanks to ACM and the CHI'26 organizing committee for putting together such an exciting program! @acm_chi #CHI2026 #HCI #SIGCHI

The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! More info: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i…

"The next frontier of digital wellbeing research isn't about less time online -- it's about better time online." Read the #OpEd from @kous2v at: medpagetoday.com/opinion/sec…

Excited for my new oped on the complexities of the screen time debate. Huge thanks to my #PublicVoicesFellowship @TheOpEdProject mentor @micheleweldon and @medpagetoday editor @genevievefri

This season, I am looking for a PhD student to work on human-centered NLP/AI projects. Visit my website to learn more about my work: sharifasultana.com/ or feel free to reach out with a statement of intent. See details of UIUC CS PhD program here: siebelschool.illinois.edu/ac…

Excited to share my new op-ed on how the observer effect could play out in the age of LLMs and generative AI, published at @techpolicypress. Grateful to be mentored by @micheleweldon as a part of the @TheOpEdProject #PublicVoices fellowship. techpolicy.press/the-risks-o…

I am recruiting 2 PhD students to work on LM interpretability at UMD @umdcs starting in fall 2026! We are #3 in AI and #4 in NLP research on @CSrankings. Come join us in our lovely building just a few miles from Washington, D.C. Details in 🧵

Thanks, @micheleweldon for being such a wonderful mentor. @TheOpEdProject #PublicVoicesFellow

Excited share my first op-ed in @PsychToday: The Paradox of Artificial Companionship. Grateful for the incredible mentorship of @micheleweldon as a part of the @TheOpEdProject #PublicVoices fellowship. @siebelschool @uofigrainger psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

When 1 LLM can’t handle all the chaos of online moderation, assemble a team! @_agam_goyal_'s #EMNLP2025 paper ft. @kous2v, @eshwar_chan @siebelschool introduces MoMoE, a Mixture of Moderation Experts where models work toward fairer, scalable moderation. 📝go.illinois.edu/emnlp2