Experience
Professional Services
Chairs / Program Committee:
Paper Reviewing:
Research Talks
University of Washington, 2025.4, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
New York University, 2025.2, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
Penn State University, 2025.2, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
Amazon AGI, 2025.2, Towards Human-Centered Alignment in Speech Language Models
University of Texas, Austin, 2025.1, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
Northeastern University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
Cornell University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
Columbia University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
University of Washington, 2024.11 & 2024.10, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
Google DeepMind, 2024.10, Towards Human-Centered Alignment in Speech Language Models
Virginia Tech, 2024.10, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
Microsoft, Responsible & Open AI Research, 2024.7, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024.7, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
EMNLP'23, 2023.12, MultiTurnCleanup: A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Spoken Conversational Transcript Cleanup
University of Michigan, 2023.10 & 2023.11, Towards Human-Centered AI Alignment via Interaction
Rising Star of Data Science, 2023.11, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations [Lightning Talk Slide][Poster]
Carnegie Mellon University, 2023.07, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations
Princeton University, 2023.05, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations
CHI'23 In2Writing Workshop, 2023.04, Parachute: Evaluating Interactive Human-LM Co-writing Systems
IUI'23, 2023.03, ScatterShot: Interactive In-context Example Curation for Text Transformation
Google Research, 2023.01, A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Spoken Conversational Transcript Cleanup
University of Notre Dame, 2022.09, Useful XAI via Interactive AI Explanations
Amazon Science, 2022.08, Auto-Regressive Language Model Distillation
Amazon Science, 2021.08, Improving Fairness in Speaker Verification Models
CHI'21 HCXAI Workshop, 2021.05, A Review on Human-Centered Explainable NLP
Selected Honors and Awards
Future Faculty Diversity Program, (Acceptance Rate < 20%), Virginia Tech, 2024
Best Paper, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024
Best Interactive Event Award, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024
Carnegie Funds for Faculty Development, University of Michigan, School of Information, 2024
Best Demo (ConvXAI Paper) (Top 6%, 1/16), CSCW, 2023
Google Research Science Conference Scholarships, (MultiturnCleanup Paper), Google Research, 2023
Rising Star of Data Science, UC San Diego, UChicago, Stanford University, 2023
Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (ScatterShot Paper) (Top 5%, 3/65), IUI, 2023
Graduate Student Travel Grant, IST, PennState, 2020, 2022
CRA-W Grad Cohort Award, Grad Cohort Workshop for Women, 2019
Lehigh University Fellowship, Lehigh University, 2018-2019
Outstanding Master Degree (Top 12.5%, 5/40), RenMin University of China, 2015
Liaison Officer (Top 1%, 30/3000), Delegation of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister at APEC, 2014
Outstanding Merit Student (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013
Excellent Graduate (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013
Outstanding-Dissertation Award (Top 0.5%, 3/550), USTB, 2013
National Endeavor Fellowship, Nationwide (Top 2%, 5/550), National, 2011 and 2012
Vice Chairman (Top 0.3%, 10/3000), The 6th presidium of the 22nd session of USTB student union, 2011-2012
Alumni Funding Scholarship (Top 0.3%, 8/3,000), USTB, 2012
Industrial Research Internships
Researcher Intern, Google AI Research, Speech Intelligence Team, 2022.09 - 2023.01
Mentors and Managers: Vicky Zayats, Johann Rocholl, Dan Walker, Dirk Padfield
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, ASR Language Modeling Team, 2022.05 - 2022.08
Mentors and Managers: Jari Kolehmainen, Yi Gu, Qi Luo, Aditya Gourav, Ivan Bulyko.
(Sr.) Principal Scientist Advisors: Ankur Gandhe, Denis Filimonov, Ariya Rastrow, Andreas Stolcke
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, SpeakerID Team, 2021.05 - 2021.08
Mentors: Yuguang Yang, Guoli Sun, Ryan Langman, Eunjung (Christine) Han.
Sr. Principal Scientist Advisors: Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke
- Interdisciplinary: Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (BiAlign) ICLR 2025 Workshop & CHI 2025 SIG (Initiator and Organizer)
- HCI: CHI 2025 (Awards Committee, Associate Chairs for two subcommittees), CHI LBW 2024 (Associate Chair), CHI In2Writing 2023
- NLP: ACL 2023, 2021 (Interpretability Track), EMNLP 2023 (Industry Track), 2022 (Interpretability Track)
- AI: ICML AI & HCI Workshop 2023
- HCI: FAccT 2025, CSCW 2024, CHI 2024, CHI LBW 2023, 2022
- NLP: NAACL 2024, EMNLP 2023, ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2023, 2022, 2021
- Speech: ICASSP 2024
- AI: NeurIPS HEGM Workshop 2022, KDD 2020, 2019, ICDM 2019, ASONAM 2019, CIKM 2018, BigData 2018, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2019, Transactions on Information Systems (TIS) 2019
![[Poster]](/assets/files/Hua_Shen_Rising_Star_Poster.png){kind=link}
Researcher Intern, Google AI Research, Speech Intelligence Team, 2022.09 - 2023.01
Mentors and Managers: Vicky Zayats, Johann Rocholl, Dan Walker, Dirk Padfield
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, ASR Language Modeling Team, 2022.05 - 2022.08
Mentors and Managers: Jari Kolehmainen, Yi Gu, Qi Luo, Aditya Gourav, Ivan Bulyko.
(Sr.) Principal Scientist Advisors: Ankur Gandhe, Denis Filimonov, Ariya Rastrow, Andreas Stolcke
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, SpeakerID Team, 2021.05 - 2021.08
Mentors: Yuguang Yang, Guoli Sun, Ryan Langman, Eunjung (Christine) Han.
Sr. Principal Scientist Advisors: Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke