Recent Updates
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
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
