Rock Yuren Pang
Source: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ypang2/ Parent: https://idl.uw.edu/papers
👋 About Me
Hi! I'm a fifth fourth third-year 😱 Ph.D. student at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, with Katharina Reinecke. I am broadly working in responsible AI and human-AI interaction. I aim to align the goals of responsible computing with the realities of computing research practices, especially in the early stages of designing technologies. My current focus is to build new tools and interaction design to support researchers and practitioners to anticipate potential unintended consequences. I am also interested in accessibility, data visualization, cross-culture usability of technology and HCI.
My research is supported by IBM PhD Fellowship. I have been a research intern at Microsoft Research with Danielle Bragg in 2024 and Allison Koenecke in 2022. I spent four wonderful years at Macalester College, where I worked with Shilad Sen.
Fun: I cook, ski, or hike. I used to do mock trial, triple jump and run track and field in college.
If you are interested in collaborating or PhD application, please feel free to reach out.
📜 Publications
Interactive Reasoning: Visualizing and Controlling Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
Rock Yuren Pang, K. J. Kevin Feng, Shangbin Feng, Chu Li, Weijia Shi, Yulia Tsvetkov, Jeffrey Heer, Katharina Reinecke
ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'26). Paphos, Cyprus, March 23-26, 2026.
Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review
Rock Yuren Pang, Hope Schroeder, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Solon Barocas, Ziang Xiao, Emily Tseng, Danielle Bragg
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.
Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Sidewalk Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Delphine Labbé, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.
BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologies Using LLM
Rock Yuren Pang, Sebastin Santy, René Just, Katharina Reinecke
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'24). Hawaiʻi, USA, May 2024.
Auditing Cross-Cultural Consistency of Human-Annotated Labels for Recommendation Systems
Rock Yuren Pang*, Jack Cenatempo*, Franklyn Graham, Bridgette Kuehn, Maddy Whisenant, Portia Botchway, Katie Stone Perez and Allison Koenecke
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23). Chicago, IL, June 2023.
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"That's important, but...": How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research Innovations
Rock Yuren Pang*, Kimberly Do*, Jiachen Jiang, Katharina Reinecke
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23). Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
How Do Data Scientists Communicate Intermediate Results?
Rock Yuren Pang, Ruotong Wang, Joely Nelson, Leilani Battle
Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS@VIS'22). Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 2022.
Apéritif: Scaffolding Preregistrations to Automatically Generate Analysis Code and Methods Descriptions
Rock Yuren Pang, Katharina Reinecke, René Just
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22). New Orleans, LA, April 2022.
🦥 Short Papers
On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance
Kevin Feng*, Tae Soo Kim*, Rock Yuren Pang*, Faria Huq, Tal August, Amy X. Zhang
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Regulatable ML. San Diego, CA, Dec 07, 2025.
Sociotechnical AI Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for HCI
Kevin Feng*, Rock Yuren Pang*, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Amy A. Winecoff, Emily Tseng, David Gray Widder, Harini Suresh, Katharina Reinecke, Amy X. Zhang
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstract (CHI EA'25). Yokohama, Japan, April 26–May 1, 2025.
AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS'24) Short Paper Track. St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, October 2024.
The Case for Anticipating Undesirable Consequences of Computing Innovations Early, Often, and Across Computer Science
Rock Yuren Pang, Dan Grossman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Katharina Reinecke
ArXiv
Anticipating Unintended Consequences of Technology Using Insights from Creativity Support Tools
Rock Yuren Pang, Katharina Reinecke
Design & Policy Workshop @ CHI '23. Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
🏆 Honors
- 2024-2025 IBM PhD Fellowship [Link]
- 2024 UW Digital Accessibility Award for making the Accessibility Guide for Data Science and STEM Classes [Link]
- UW CSE Educators' Endowed Fellowship (2020) [link]
- Macalester Ezra J. Camp Endowed Prize in Mathematics (2020) [link]