Publications

2026

  1. FAccT
    How Researchers Navigate Accountability, Transparency, and Trust When Using AI Tools in Early-Stage Research: A Think-Aloud Study
    Sanjana Gautam, Houjiang Liu, Yujin Choi, and 1 more author
    The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2026
    Paper
  2. ACL
    Improving the Distributional Alignment of LLMs using Supervision
    Gauri Kambhatla, Sanjana Gautam, Angela Zhang, and 4 more authors
    Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
    Paper
  3. FAccT
    What if AI systems weren’t chatbots?
    Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, and 1 more author
    The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2026
    Paper
  4. ICWSM
    What’s Political on TikTok? Perceptions, Prevalence, and Patterns of Exposure to TikToks Users Perceive as Political
    Jenna Greenfield, S. Trisha Wang, S. Jung, and 3 more authors
    Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2026
    Paper
  5. CSCW
    Who Owns Creativity and Who Does the Work? Trade-offs in LLM-Supported Research Ideation
    Houjiang Liu, Yujin Choi, Sanjana Gautam, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12152, 2026
    Paper

2025

  1. AIES
    Towards Experience-Centered AI: A Framework for Integrating Lived Experience in Design and Development
    Sanjana Gautam, Mohit Chandra, Ankolika De, and 3 more authors
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2025
    Paper
  2. AIES
    Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
    Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2025
    Paper
  3. TACL
    Beyond Sociodemographic Prompting: Using Supervision to Align LLMs with Human Response Distributions
    Gauri Kambhatla, Sanjana Gautam, Angela Zhang, and 4 more authors
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025
    Paper
  4. AR
    Outcomes of faculty training aimed at improving how allegations of research misconduct are handled
    Courtney Karmelita, Bridget Carruthers, Sanjana Gautam, and 1 more author
    Accountability in Research, 2025
    Paper
  5. CHI
    Inspo: Writing Stories with a Flock of AIs and Humans.
    Chieh-Yang Huang, Sanjana Gautam, Shannon McClellan Brooks, and 3 more authors
    Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
    DOI Paper
  6. PLOS
    Open science practices among early-career human-computer interaction researchers in the US
    Tatiana Chakravorti, Sanjana Gautam, and Sarah M Rajtmajer
    PLOS One, 2025
    Paper

2024

  1. GenAICHI, CHI
    From melting pots to misrepresentations: Exploring harms in generative ai
    Sanjana Gautam*, Pranav Venkit*, and Sourojit Ghosh*
    Proceedings of GenAICHI Workshop in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
    Paper
  2. AIES
    Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-Western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach
    Sourojit Ghosh*, Pranav Venkit*, Sanjana Gautam*, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2024
    Paper
  3. HCI+NLP, NAACL
    Blind Spots and Biases: Exploring the Role of Annotator Cognitive Biases in NLP
    Sanjana Gautam and Mukund Srinath
    Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, 2024
    Paper
  4. FAccT
    Auditing GPT’s Content Moderation Guardrails: Can ChatGPT Write Your Favorite TV Show?
    Yaaseen Mahomed, Charlie M Crawford, Sanjana Gautam, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2024
    Paper
  5. CSCW
    Towards Dynamic Learning: A Framework for Simulating Adaptive Learning Systems
    Sanjana Gautam, Xiaolong Zhang, and Mary Beth Rosson
    Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2024
    Paper
  6. PhD
    The learning code: Designing AI-driven adaptive learning systems for social learning
    Sanjana Gautam
    The Pennsylvania State University, 2024
    Paper

2023

  1. EACL
    Nationality Bias in Text Generation
    Pranav Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Ruchi Panchanadikar, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
    Paper
  2. AIES
    Unmasking nationality bias: A study of human perception of nationalities in ai-generated articles
    Pranav Venkit*, Sanjana Gautam*, Ruchi Panchanadikar*, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2023
    Paper
  3. EMNLP
    The Sentiment Problem: A Critical Survey towards Deconstructing Sentiment Analysis
    Pranav Venkit*, Mukund Srinath*, Sanjana Gautam, and 4 more authors
    Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
    Paper
  4. CHI
    Exploring Potential Contributions of Social Learning to Adaptive Learning Systems
    Sanjana Gautam, Mary Beth Rosson, and Mahir Akgun
    Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
    Paper
  5. JEM
    Continuity planning for public health crises: Designing workplace redundancies for organizational resilience.
    Rob Grace, Sanjana Gautam, and Andrea Tapia
    Journal of Emergency Management, 2023
    Paper

2022

  1. SIGCSE
    Exploring the challenges of AI experts to inform AI curriculum
    Sanjana Gautam, Mahir Akgun, and Prasenjit Mitra
    Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 2022
    Paper
  2. arXiv
    Understanding Twitters behavior during the pandemic: Fake News and Fear
    GR Rodriguez, S Gautam, and A Tapia
    2022
    Paper
  3. arXiv
    In Alexa, We Trust. Or Do We?: An analysis of People’s Perception of Privacy Policies
    Sanjana Gautam
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00086, 2022
    Paper
  4. ISCRAM
    Continuity of Operations Planning in Public-Safety Answering Points during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Rob Grace, Sanjana Gautam, and Andrea Tapia
    Proceedings of the ISCRAM Asia Pacific Conference, 2022
    Paper

2021

  1. CSCW
    Exploring feelings of student community across a geographically distributed university
    Sanjana Gautam and Mary Beth Rosson
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
    Paper

2019

  1. C&E
    Modelling and statistical analysis of YouTube’s educational videos: A channel Owner’s perspective
    Samant Saurabh and Sanjana Gautam
    Computers & Education, 2019
    Paper