Awarded NSF GRFP & Best Paper at CHI '23
Selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Best Paper Award at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
What a week it has been! I am so honored and grateful to have been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP), as well as Best Paper Award at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). It is hard to believe all this good news in just one week!
NSF GRFP:
The NSF GRFP is a highly competitive grant awarded to graduate students across the US and STEM disciplines. For the next three years, the fellowship will support my research related to computational cinema and media design for social change with an emphasis on housing justice. As a mode of community organizing, I am particularly interested in co-designing cinematic technologies to cultivate compassion and understanding around housing insecurity, as well as to overturn the false narratives and representations that obscure the realities. With the NSF support, I am driven to address the increasingly severe housing crises by conducting community-based participatory research through design. I will be investigating the imaginative potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for expanding grassroots documentary work to inform urban housing policy making and planning. To read more about how the GRFP will support my work, you can view the press release from my university.
CHI Best Paper Award:
I also received the exciting news that one of my publications, Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity, was selected for Best Paper Award at the CHI ‘23 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which will convene in Hamburg, Germany later this month. CHI is one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science that is considered to be the most prestigious venue in the field of human–computer interaction. The Best Paper Award was granted to the top 1% of papers out of 3,182 submissions. While the paper and video presentation are not published just yet, you can take a look at the preprint.
Hopefully the good news keeps on coming. Thank you for your continued support!