- Role
- Doctoral Researcher
- In the lab
- Fall 2023 – present · expected Spring 2027
- Projects
- Bystander Intervention & Online Safety
Misinformation & Community Norms
AI-Mediated Communication
Imagined Futures of GenAI in Education
Agentic AI governance, disclosure, epistemic coordination
I work on human–AI interaction: epistemic coordination, AI disclosure, governance, and how generative AI reshapes participation in online communities.
Recent threads include oversight in agentic AI communities, the gap between visibility and verification in public AI discourse, culture-aware governance for multilingual tutors, and public accountability for AI systems that reconstruct relational others.
Funding history
- Faculty start-up funds (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)
- NSF HCC “Making Meaning out of Crisis” (Fall 2024 – present)
Publications
Published
- 2026
Designing for safety in sensitive online spaces: the role of pseudonymity and verification friction
Gallagher, Shi & DiFranzo · ACM Web Science 2026, 381–391
- 2026
Exploring COVID-19 framing across diverse platforms
Shi, Aghajari, DiFranzo, Jia & Baumer · ICWSM 2026, 20(1), 2149–2164
- 2026
Who gets credit? Operationalizing AI disclosure as epistemic coordination in human–AI teams
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts (Late-Breaking Work)
- 2026
arXiv
Outer Limits: an experimental approach to controlled content manipulation within the Reddit interface
Mao, Shi, Jia, Unguryan, Baumer & DiFranzo · CSS 2026, Santa Fe · camera-ready October 2026
Workshops & extended abstracts
- 2026
Pathway Lab: a design probe for redirecting adolescent peer conflict before it becomes bullying
Shi & DiFranzo · CSCW 2026 Companion (Posters) · conditionally accepted
- 2026
ClassPulse: a bidirectional AI-supported programming homework platform for teaching signals and student learning support
Shi & DiFranzo · AIED 2026 Late-Breaking Work, 282–288
- 2026
arXiv
Human control is the anchor, not the answer: early divergence of oversight in agentic AI communities
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Agent Collaboration
- 2026
arXiv
Alignment in time: peak-aware orchestration for long-horizon agentic systems
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 AutomationXP Workshop
- 2026
The fluency trap: culture-aware governance for multilingual LLM tutors
Shi & DiFranzo · CATS 2026 Workshop @ AIED
- 2026
Strategic missingness in AI help-seeking traces for programming education
Shi & DiFranzo · CSEDM 2026 Workshop @ AIED
- 2026
When learning signals become safety signals: a bounded-confidentiality framework for educational AI agents
Shi & DiFranzo · IRAISE 2026 Workshop, PMLR, 123–128
- 2025
Building trust in multilingual large language models for cross-cultural collaboration
Shi & DiFranzo · HCII 2025 Workshop on Generative AI for Collaborative Experiences
Preprints & work in progress
- 2026
arXiv
When visibility outpaces verification
Shi & DiFranzo · arXiv:2602.11412
- 2026
arXiv
Culturally-grounded governance for multilingual language models
Shi & DiFranzo · arXiv:2602.00497
- 2026
arXiv
When readability and source retention diverge: an evaluability gap in AI translation
Mao, Shi, Jia, Wegrzyn & DiFranzo · arXiv:2608.19083
- 2026
Beloved afterlives: public accountability for AI resurrection of relational others
Shi & DiFranzo · under review · AIES 2026
- 2026
The underspecified team in human–AI teaming: a reporting audit of team form, authority, and accountability
Shi, Wang, Doherty & DiFranzo · under review · ACM HCOMP 2026
- 2026
From divergent narrative exposure to conflict disposition: a cognitive-affective model of COVID-19 communication
Brown, Shi, Li, Malhotra & DiFranzo · under review · ICWSM 2027
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Afterglow / Petopia: designing AI-mediated memorials that support remembrance without immersion
Shi & DiFranzo · in preparation · target CHI 2027