Professional Summary
Greetings! I am Jason Ding, a 5th-year PhD candidate at University of Maryland, College Park, working on Human-centered AI and GenAI.
I have 8+ years of research experience in Human-Centered AI and 5+ years in Generative Models. My research contribution includes 20+ publications at AI and HCI conferences, such as CHI×5, C&C×4, EMNLP×1, CSCW×1. During my PhD, I’ve had the privilege of completing 4 research internships at Microsoft Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab (IBM Research), Fujitsu Research of America, and Dataminr AI Org. My industry research has been published in AI/HCI conferences (EMNLP 2023, IUI 2025, C&C 2025), and made real-world impacts such as first-authored GenAI patent (IBM Research) and GenAI product (Dataminr ReGenAI).
Education
PhD in Information Studies
2020-08-01
University of Maryland, College Park
MS in Information Science
2018-09-01
2020-06-30
University of California, San Diego
BEng in Electronic & Information Engineering
2014-02-01
2018-06-30
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Interests
Experience
News
| Jan 2026 | "Towards AI as Colleagues" conditionally accepted to CHI 2026 |
| Aug 2025 | "Towards Direct Intent Manipulation" accepted to UIST 2025 poster |
| Jul 2025 | "Frontend Diffusion" accepted to VL/HCC 2025 |
| Mar 2025 | "The Diagram is like Guardrails" accepted to C&C 2025 |
| Jan 2025 | Demo at IUI 2025; "Can AI Prompt Humans?" at CHI 2025 |
| Nov 2024 | Invited talk on "Intent-AI Interaction" at UMD HCIL |
| Sep 2024 | Post-Candidacy Doctoral Student Research Award ($1,500) |
| Feb 2024 | ACM IUI Student Grant ($1,460) from NSF |
| Jan 2024 | Thesis proposal at IUI 2024 Doctoral Consortium |
| Jan 2024 | "Formulating or Fixating" accepted to CHI 2024 |
| Nov 2023 | JMD paper featured in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design |
| Oct 2023 | "Harnessing the power of LLMs" accepted to EMNLP 2023 |
| Sep 2023 | Doctoral Student Research Award ($1,500) |
| Jun 2023 | Dean's Fellowship ($2,500) |
| May 2023 | Honorable Mention at C&C 2023 |
| Apr 2023 | Two papers at C&C 2023 (21.33% acceptance rate) |
Awards & Honors
| 2024 | Post-Candidacy Doctoral Student Research Award ($1,500) |
| 2024 | IBM PhD Fellowship nominee |
| 2024 | Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship nominee |
| 2024 | Google PhD Fellowship nominee |
| 2024 | ACM IUI Student Grant ($1,460, NSF) |
| 2023 | Pre-Candidacy Doctoral Student Research Award ($1,500) |
| 2023 | Dean's Fellowship, UMD College of Information ($2,500) |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention — ACM C&C 2023 |
| 2021 | Dean's Fellowship, UMD College of Information ($10,000) |
| 2014 | PolyU Entry Scholarship — Academic Excellence (HK$480,000) |
Students
I am fortunate to work with these talented and motivated students. Underlined authors in the publication list indicate my students and myself.
Publications
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