Bio:
Chirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). His research focuses on building, auditing, and correcting agentic information access systems. Shah is a Distinguished Member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored eight books, including textbooks on data science and machine learning. He also works closely with industrial research labs on cutting-edge problems, typically as a visiting researcher. The most recent engagements include Amazon, ByteDance, Getty Images, Microsoft Research, and Spotify.
Shah was General Co-Chair for ACM CHIIR 2018 and ACM SIGIR 2021 conference and is General Co-Chair for ACM CHIIR 2026. He is also currently serving as the Treasurer on SIGIR Executive Committee.
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Beyond Chatbots: Building Personal, Proactive, and Purposeful AI Agents
People click, swipe, search and in general interact with a system to accomplish a task, and yet most our systems are too focused on catering to those individual actions rather than directly...
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