Organizing Committee

Meet the Organizers

Eight researchers and practitioners from across the HCI community, bringing together expertise in responsible AI, future of work, journalism, and social justice.

Committee structure

Junior researchers take on specific chair responsibilities to drive the workshop's execution. Senior researchers assist with participant outreach and facilitate group sessions. All organizers commit to the workshop's inclusive, reflexive, and safe-space ethos.

Hauke Sandhaus
Hauke Sandhaus
Lead Facilitator & Web Chair
Cornell Tech, New York, USA — hgs52@cornell.edu

PhD candidate at Cornell Tech researching how Generative AI shapes interactive system design and how students navigate self-initiated AI use in HCI workflows. He also investigates transparency in user research and teaches workshops and summer classes on design ethics.

Kashif Imteyaz
Kashif Imteyaz
Co-lead Facilitator & Proceedings Chair
Northeastern University, Boston, USA — imteyaz.k@northeastern.edu

PhD student at Northeastern University whose work explores the design and evaluation of computational systems that support how people think, work together, and co-create with AI. He also chairs the ACM SIGCHI Boston chapter.

Mohammed Almutairi
Mohammed Almutairi
Remote Track Facilitator
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA — malmutai@nd.edu

PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame studying AI-augmented teamwork and human–AI collaboration. His research develops GenAI interventions and multi-agent simulation systems to examine coordination, agency, and accountability in collaborative work.

Pooja Prajod
Pooja Prajod
Paper & Publicity Chair
CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), Amsterdam, Netherlands — Pooja.Prajod@cwi.nl

Postdoctoral researcher at CWI in the AI, Media, and Democracy (AIMD) lab, where she focuses on Responsible AI in news media. She utilizes human-centered design principles to investigate AI-use disclosures in news production.

Divya Ramesh
Divya Ramesh
Organizer
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA — dramesh4@charlotte.edu

Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at UNC Charlotte and visiting scholar at Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI). She leads the Bridges for Responsible Computing group, combining interdisciplinary perspectives to advance accountable AI innovation for economic inclusion.

Saiph Savage
Saiph Savage
Organizer
Northeastern University, Boston, USA — s.savage@northeastern.edu

Assistant Professor and Director of the Civic AI Lab at Northeastern University, where she co-designs, develops, and studies public AI technologies that empower workers, federal agencies, industry leaders, and NGOs.

Qian Yang
Qian Yang
Organizer
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA — qy242@cornell.edu

Assistant Professor at Cornell University researching AI interaction design, including foreseeability of harms in NLP and designing with machine learning. Her work explores how to make AI systems more transparent, fair, and accountable.

Michael Muller
Michael Muller
Organizer
Independent Researcher, Medford, USA — michael.muller.hci@proton.me

Independent researcher pursuing themes of critical computing, human-centered AI, and social justice—including resisting AI solutionism and designing AI that leaves decision-making firmly with human beings.

Get in touch

For questions about the workshop, submissions, or participation, please reach out to the lead facilitator Hauke Sandhaus or Paper Chair Pooja Prajod. You can also connect with us via the CHIWork Slack community.