(2024/02) Dr. Rho gave a talk at VTLx Speaker Series on "Words Matter: How Language Choices Predict Societal Trends and Outcomes in Media, Health, and Policing"
(2024/01) SAIL Lab has had two papers accepted to CHI 2024! 📃🎉
(2024/01) SAIL Lab has had two papers accepted to CSCW 2024! 📃🥳
(2023/05) Dr. Rho’s recent work Escalated Police Stops of Black Men Are Linguistically and Psychologically Distinct in Their Earliest Moments has been interviewed by CNN, Scripp News, and NPR.
(2023/05) We are grateful to receive a new grant from the CHCI Planning Grants! 🎉
(2023/04) Uma received 2nd place in the Torgersen Research Excellence Awards Annual competition for her M.S Thesis Oral Presentation! 🎉
(2023/04) Uma has been selected as one of the 26 finalists for the Torgersen Research Excellence Awards! 🎯
(2023/03) Two Workshop Papers got accepted at The CHI 2023 Workshop on Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces! Congratulations Xiaohan, Uma and Rohan! 🎉
(2023/01) Dr. Rho is teaching CS:6724 Human AI-Interaction in the Spring Semester 2023.
(2022/12) One paper was accepted to ICWSM 2023 in the initial round at a 5.6 % acceptance rate. Congratulations to Xiaohan Ding! 🎉
(2022/03) Dr. Rho is teaching CS:5984 Computational Social Science in the Fall Semester 2022.
(2021/12) Happy to announce Dr. Rho received a $15K grant from the Center of Peace Studies & Violence Prevention at VT to jumpstart SAIL lab’s research on examining linguistic patterns around groupthink in extremist reactions to public health mandates!