Recent Updates
2023
Nov: Accepted for editorial board Springer Nature Portfolio Journal - Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Sep: Received SAP Grant for HLF2023
Aug: Reviewing for NeurIPS 2023 Workshop RegML
Apr: I got selected as one of the 200 exceptional young researchers at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany
Mar: Our paper about cross platform analysis about deepfakes got accepted to present as a "Talk" at the o IC2S2 2023 Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar: I got featured in ACM-W
Feb: As an affiliate at Berkman Klein Center Internet Society at Harvard University, I did a guest talk at the Sturm Colleage of Law, University of Denver by the invitation from Prof. Zahra Takhshid
Feb: Accepted the inviation to serve committee role "Publicity and Networking"at The Eleventh AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2023, Delft, Netherlands
Jan: As an affiliate at Berkman Klien Center Internet Society at Harvard University, I did a guest talk at the AI Policy Lab, UPenn Carey Law School by the invitation from Prof. Rangita De Silva
Jan: Our SIGCHI Gloabl committee proposal to CHI2023 aproved - we will have a "Special Interest Group (SIG)" Session at CHI2023.
2022
Dec: Workshop proposal submitted with HCI4SouthAsia got accepted to CHI2023-"Advancing HCI Research and Education within and across South Asia" (out of 144 proposals, only 44 got accepted)
Nov: Invited to serve in the program committee at the 21st European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW2023)
Trondheim, Norway
Oct: Invited to serve as a International track chair for the premium MOOC conference The European MOOCs Stakeholder Summit- EMOOC 2023 host by Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Sept: Joined Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as an affiliate
July: Took part in the Datathon organized by the conference IC2S2, Chicago, USA and our team WON the OVERALL BEST PERFORMAMCE Award.
April: Our paper Analyzing conversations about deepfakes in Reddit and Twitter got accepted to present as a poster at IC2S2, Chicago, USA
April: Session chair at CHI2022 for the session 395 "Social Media, Privacy and Mitigations"
Mar: Recieved an invitation to serve as a Demo chair at the premier South Asian Human Computer Interaction conference - India HCI2022
Feb: My second project as a postdoc with Prof. Sasahara - "𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨" got (conditonally) accepted to ACM CHI2022 [pre-print] 24.7% acceptance rate from 2577 submisons.
Jan: Represented Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) at the Stanford mediaX themed day and presented our work at Sasahara Lab - Societal implications of AI Generated content.
2021
Dec: "Designing for Mis/disinformation workshop proposal I lead with James Stomber, Farnaz Jahanbakhash, Gautam represeting UX groups at Credibility Coalition got accepted to CHI2022
Dec: HCIxB workshop proposal with Vikram. Neha Kumar and diverse team across globe got accepted to CHI2022- out of 81 submitted proposals chi2022 accepted only 43 proposals.
Dec: "Designing for Mis/disinformation workshop proposal I lead with James Stomber, Farnaz Jahanbakhash, Gautam represeting UX groups at Credibility Coalition got accepted to CHI2022
Dec: HCIxB workshop proposal with Vikram. Neha Kumar and diverse team across globe got accepted to CHI2022- out of 81 submitted proposals chi2022 accepted only 43 proposals.
Nov: CHI2022 submission came with the decision "Revise & Resubmit"- from 2571 submission only 350 recived R&R with a rate 13.5%
Oct: I will be a speaker and a panelist at the AI4NextBillion (AI4NB) hosted by HCI4SouthAsia and India HCI 2022
Oct: I will be speaking at the PhD Students in AI Ethics 2021 roundtable workshop - Talk will address AI Ethical implication in Deepfakes [Recording]
Sept : My first project as a postdoc - Paper got at Accepted at Truth and Trust Conference - D. Gamage, J. Chen, K Sasahara "The Emergence of Deepfakes and its Societal Implications: A Systematic Review" 20% acceptance rate.
Sept : Recived an Invitation to serve in ACM COMPASS Program Committee from Niki Dell at Cornell University
Sept : Recived an Invitation to serve in ICTD2022 Program Committee from Ishitiaque Ahmed from University of Toronto
Aug : I will be leading an Internship program at Sasahara Lab, Tokyo Tech
July : I will be serving as Communications and Outreach Co-chairs in ACM CSCW 2022 along with Zhicong, and Tiffany
June 22: Recived an invitation to serve as AC in ACM CHI 2022 -subcommittee Learning, Education, and Families from Juho Kim, KAIST
June 7: Participating at the Social Computing Systems Camp organized by Prof. {Michael Bernstein , Amy Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández}
May 8: My paper co-authored with Mark Whiting at AsianCHI2021 won a best paper award
May 5: Recived an invitation to serve in HCI Track Committee at Grace Hoppers Conference 2021
May 3: My work with Mark Whiting and Thomas Stoubitzs accepted to Journal Distance Education (Impact factor 2.4)
April 27-30: I'm going to chair some sessions in IEEE WIE ILC
March 29: I sussessfully defended my Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Computer Science Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
March 6: I accepted a postdoc position at the Tokyo Tech with Prof. Sasahara
Nov: Accepted for editorial board Springer Nature Portfolio Journal - Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Sep: Received SAP Grant for HLF2023
Aug: Reviewing for NeurIPS 2023 Workshop RegML
Apr: I got selected as one of the 200 exceptional young researchers at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany
Mar: Our paper about cross platform analysis about deepfakes got accepted to present as a "Talk" at the o IC2S2 2023 Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar: I got featured in ACM-W
Feb: As an affiliate at Berkman Klein Center Internet Society at Harvard University, I did a guest talk at the Sturm Colleage of Law, University of Denver by the invitation from Prof. Zahra Takhshid
Feb: Accepted the inviation to serve committee role "Publicity and Networking"at The Eleventh AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2023, Delft, Netherlands
Jan: As an affiliate at Berkman Klien Center Internet Society at Harvard University, I did a guest talk at the AI Policy Lab, UPenn Carey Law School by the invitation from Prof. Rangita De Silva
Jan: Our SIGCHI Gloabl committee proposal to CHI2023 aproved - we will have a "Special Interest Group (SIG)" Session at CHI2023.
2022
Dec: Workshop proposal submitted with HCI4SouthAsia got accepted to CHI2023-"Advancing HCI Research and Education within and across South Asia" (out of 144 proposals, only 44 got accepted)
Nov: Invited to serve in the program committee at the 21st European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW2023)
Trondheim, Norway
Oct: Invited to serve as a International track chair for the premium MOOC conference The European MOOCs Stakeholder Summit- EMOOC 2023 host by Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Sept: Joined Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as an affiliate
July: Took part in the Datathon organized by the conference IC2S2, Chicago, USA and our team WON the OVERALL BEST PERFORMAMCE Award.
April: Our paper Analyzing conversations about deepfakes in Reddit and Twitter got accepted to present as a poster at IC2S2, Chicago, USA
April: Session chair at CHI2022 for the session 395 "Social Media, Privacy and Mitigations"
Mar: Recieved an invitation to serve as a Demo chair at the premier South Asian Human Computer Interaction conference - India HCI2022
Feb: My second project as a postdoc with Prof. Sasahara - "𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨" got (conditonally) accepted to ACM CHI2022 [pre-print] 24.7% acceptance rate from 2577 submisons.
Jan: Represented Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) at the Stanford mediaX themed day and presented our work at Sasahara Lab - Societal implications of AI Generated content.
2021
Dec: "Designing for Mis/disinformation workshop proposal I lead with James Stomber, Farnaz Jahanbakhash, Gautam represeting UX groups at Credibility Coalition got accepted to CHI2022
Dec: HCIxB workshop proposal with Vikram. Neha Kumar and diverse team across globe got accepted to CHI2022- out of 81 submitted proposals chi2022 accepted only 43 proposals.
Dec: "Designing for Mis/disinformation workshop proposal I lead with James Stomber, Farnaz Jahanbakhash, Gautam represeting UX groups at Credibility Coalition got accepted to CHI2022
Dec: HCIxB workshop proposal with Vikram. Neha Kumar and diverse team across globe got accepted to CHI2022- out of 81 submitted proposals chi2022 accepted only 43 proposals.
Nov: CHI2022 submission came with the decision "Revise & Resubmit"- from 2571 submission only 350 recived R&R with a rate 13.5%
Oct: I will be a speaker and a panelist at the AI4NextBillion (AI4NB) hosted by HCI4SouthAsia and India HCI 2022
Oct: I will be speaking at the PhD Students in AI Ethics 2021 roundtable workshop - Talk will address AI Ethical implication in Deepfakes [Recording]
Sept : My first project as a postdoc - Paper got at Accepted at Truth and Trust Conference - D. Gamage, J. Chen, K Sasahara "The Emergence of Deepfakes and its Societal Implications: A Systematic Review" 20% acceptance rate.
Sept : Recived an Invitation to serve in ACM COMPASS Program Committee from Niki Dell at Cornell University
Sept : Recived an Invitation to serve in ICTD2022 Program Committee from Ishitiaque Ahmed from University of Toronto
Aug : I will be leading an Internship program at Sasahara Lab, Tokyo Tech
July : I will be serving as Communications and Outreach Co-chairs in ACM CSCW 2022 along with Zhicong, and Tiffany
June 22: Recived an invitation to serve as AC in ACM CHI 2022 -subcommittee Learning, Education, and Families from Juho Kim, KAIST
June 7: Participating at the Social Computing Systems Camp organized by Prof. {Michael Bernstein , Amy Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández}
May 8: My paper co-authored with Mark Whiting at AsianCHI2021 won a best paper award
May 5: Recived an invitation to serve in HCI Track Committee at Grace Hoppers Conference 2021
May 3: My work with Mark Whiting and Thomas Stoubitzs accepted to Journal Distance Education (Impact factor 2.4)
April 27-30: I'm going to chair some sessions in IEEE WIE ILC
March 29: I sussessfully defended my Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Computer Science Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
March 6: I accepted a postdoc position at the Tokyo Tech with Prof. Sasahara
