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Benji Xie

Breaking Down an Interdisciplinary CS Academic Job Packet

I went on the academic job market last year and ended up with a tenure-track faculty position! Here’s what went into my job packet.

Aug 12

figure showing timeline from August to April. “Applications Due” is a normal curve from September to February. “first round virtual interviews” is a smaller curve from late October to mid-January. “Campus interviews” is a smaller curve from late December to early March. “Follow up visit and negotiating” is the smallest curve from early January to April.”

Aug 12

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Beyond Content Moderation

Addressing online polarization and hate speech will require rethinking platform designs and policies!

Nov 11, 2023

Colin Megill standing at a podium and pointing at a screen with a news article projected.

Nov 11, 2023

Benji Xie

Designing Feedback Loops for Education &

How do we get insights from the people most affected to the people that need it most?

Oct 11, 2023

Slide titled “Building Feedback Loops” with a Curriculum Adoption example. Bi-directional arrows point to and from icons representing published content, teachers, school districts, and students.

Oct 11, 2023

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AI + Education Summit at Stanford

Generative AI wasn’t designed for education, but it’s here. So folks met up to discuss the opportunities, affordances, and risks!

Feb 16, 2023

Sal Khan, Chris Piech, and John Mitchell sitting on stage in front of a slide projected on the wall titled “Realizing the Potential and Mitigating the Risks of AI for Education”

Feb 16, 2023

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Bits and Behavior

A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research

We read 510 papers to understand how CER wields demographic data and identified considerations for more rigorous and equitable research.

Aug 18, 2022

Figure showing directed process from “which populations studied,” to “how data collected,” to “how data reported,” to “how data used.” Underneath the figure reads “Researchers make **decisions** about demographic data!”

Aug 18, 2022

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Measuring and addressing my carbon impact for 2021

Measure and offset for today; invest in collective action for tomorrow!

Jan 2, 2022

Bar chart estimating household carbon emissions split into travel, home, food, goods, and services. The chart totals 21 tons of carbon dioxide eq/year, with most in travel (~6.8), food (5), goods (~3.7), services (~3.7), home (~1.8).

Jan 2, 2022

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Equity by understanding how people are (mis)representing, (mis)interpreting, and (mis)using data

Researching equity requires looking beyond data & engaging stakeholders’ domain expertise. I outline approaches for doing that at Lak 2021.

Apr 14, 2021

Logistic plot with theta on x axis and probability of theta on y axis. A solid red logistic curve represents the probability reported nonbinary students of varying knowledge levels (theta) get the question correct. To its right is a dotted gold curve that represents the probability that reported male students of varying knowledge levels get the question correct.

Apr 14, 2021

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Bits and Behavior

Improving Professional Development in Computer Science Education

We need better PD for CS educators, and Dr. Sue Sentance guides us through the decades of PD research to make it happen!

Dec 1, 2020

bottom up vs top down, mentor vs expert, flexible vs certification, knowledge vs practice, camp vs sustain, in-situ vs online

Dec 1, 2020

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HCI & Design at UW

DUB Retreat 2020: Recognizing what we’ve done, what still needs to be done

Summary and reflection on the 2020 DUB Retreat, a physically distant but socially connected meeting of HCI & design researchers.

Oct 19, 2020

Collage of slides recognizing new centers and labs, awards, promotions, and paper awards (described in text below)

Oct 19, 2020

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Bits and Behavior

Designing for agency in online learning

It’s important for learners to have control over their online learning experiences. But designing the information to make that happens is…

Aug 12, 2020

Screenshots of part of Codeitz showing visualizing 5 components to inform decision-making

Aug 12, 2020

Benji Xie

Benji Xie

I design equitable and critical human-data interactions. Embedded Ethics Fellow, Stanford HAI, Ethics in Society. PhD, UW iSchool. Prev MIT CS, Code.org.

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