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Amy Xian Zhang, often abbreviated as Amy X. Zhang is an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research focuses on social computing and human-computer interaction, aiming to develop tools to enhance online discourse and combat misinformation[1][2]. Zhang has also been recognized for her work on credibility tools and her research on cyberbullying[3][4].

She is also a founding member of the Credibility Coalition, a group dedicated to research and standards for information credibility online.

Academics

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From 2014 to 2019, Amy X. Zhang was a Doctor of Philosophy candidate at MIT CSAIL, where she was part of the Haystack Group and worked on Mavo with David Karger and Lea Verou[5][6]. She also completed a postdoctoral researcher position at Stanford University's Computer Science Department (2019-2020)[7]. Then, she became an assistant professor and head of the Social Futures Lab at the University of Washington's Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (2020-present)[8].

Awards

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Amy X. Zhang has received awards for her work, including:

  • The George Sprowls Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at MIT in August 2020 [9]
  • The best paper awards at ACM CSCW and ACM CHI [10].




References

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  1. ^ "| Knight First Amendment Institute". knightcolumbia.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  2. ^ "Amy X. Zhang | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  3. ^ "How can social media be better? Four UW researchers compare strategies". UW News. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  4. ^ "Amy X. Zhang - UW CSE". homes.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  5. ^ "Haystack Group @ MIT CSAIL". haystack.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  6. ^ Verou, Lea; Zhang, Amy X.; Karger, David R. (2016-10-16). "Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML". Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. UIST '16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 483–496. doi:10.1145/2984511.2984551. ISBN 978-1-4503-4189-9.
  7. ^ "| Knight First Amendment Institute". knightcolumbia.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  8. ^ "OpenReview". OpenReview. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  9. ^ "Amy X. Zhang - UW CSE". homes.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  10. ^ "| Knight First Amendment Institute". knightcolumbia.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24.