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Mingkun Gao, PhD

Bio

I got my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I worked on Human Computer Interaction with Prof. Hari Sundaram . I have broad research interests in Human Computer Interaction, Persuasion Theory, Decision-Making, Social Computing and Conversational Agent Design/Evaluation. Previously, I received my Masters degree in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Chris Callison-Burch and B.S. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University.

Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (08/2015 - 12/2021)
    • Ph.D.
    • Computer Science
  • University of Pennsylvania (08/2013 - 05/2015)
    • Masters Degree
    • Computer and Information Science
    • Masters Thesis: Crowdsourcing Translation
  • Nanjing University (09/2009 - 06/2013)
    • Bachelors Degree
    • Computer Science and Technology

Publications

Chatbot or Chat-Blocker: Predicting Chatbot Popularity before Deployment. Mingkun Gao, Xiaotong Liu, Anbang Xu and Rama Akkiraju. In Proceedings of DIS 2021.
Chat-XAI: A New Chatbot to Explain Artificial Intelligence. Mingkun Gao, Xiaotong Liu, Anbang Xu and Rama Akkiraju. In Proceedings of SAI IntelliSys 2021.
To Label or Not to Label: The Effect of Stance and Credibility Labels on Readers' Selection and Perception of News Articles. Mingkun Gao*, Ziang Xiao*, Karrie Karahalios and Wai-Tat Fu. In Proceedings of CSCW 2018.
Burst Your Bubble! An Intelligent System for Improving Awareness of Diverse Social Opinions. Mingkun Gao, Hyo Jin Do and Wai-Tat Fu. In Proceedings of IUI 2018.
Computational methods for socio-computer interaction. Wai-Tat Fu, Mingkun Gao and Hyo Jin Do. Computational Interaction (Oulasvirta et al., editor)
An Intelligent Interface for Organizing Online Opinions on Controversial Topics. Mingkun Gao, Hyo Jin Do and Wai-Tat Fu. In Proceedings of IUI 2017.
A Framework of Health Information Retrieval for Aging Population. Mingkun Gao. In Companions of IUI 2017 Student Consortium.
Cost Optimization for Crowdsourcing Translation. Mingkun Gao, Wei Xu and Chris Callison-Burch. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2015.
Are Two Heads Better than One? Crowdsourced Translation via a Two-Step Collaboration of Non-Professional Translators and Editors. Rui Yan, Mingkun Gao, Ellie Pavlick and Chris Callison-Burch. In Proceedings of ACL 2015.