Raiyan Abdul Baten

[Mar 2023] Finally out of the job market! I will join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall'23. 

[Jan 2023] I am officially a Winter Warrior now! :D I finished Rochester's Winter Warrior Half Marathon today in 2 hours and 45 minutes. My second half-marathon! :D

[Dec 2022] I served as a panelist in the Navigating the Mentoring Relationship workshop, organized by the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. Mentorship is an under-discussed aspect of academia, and I think these kinds of conversations should be held more widely.

[Nov 2022] Our paper "Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a "Goldilocks" level of idea-variability" just got accepted at PNAS Nexus!

[Sep 2022] I delivered two guest lectures on quantitative analysis methods in the HCI course at URCS (slides: part 1 and part 2).

[Aug 2022] I defended my Ph.D. thesis. Trust me, I'm a doctor!

[Jul 2022] Our paper "Predicting Future Location Categories of Users in a Large Social Platform" just got accepted at ICWSM'23. This work was done as part of my internship with the Computational Social Science group at Snap Inc.

[Feb 2022] I served as a judge in the Creative Collision Challenge, organized by the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester.

[Jun 2021] ResearchGate has covered me in their Researcher Stories series. They have focused on my work and personal journey. Thanks to the RG team for the story!

[May 2021]  Our paper "Cues to gender and racial identity reduce creativity in diverse social networks" got accepted at Scientific Reports! This is my pandemic work and I'm super excited!

[Feb 2021] Our paper "Technology-driven alteration of nonverbal cues and its effects on negotiation" got accepted by the Negotiation Journal. It is a special edition journal by the Harvard Law School.

[Nov 2020] Worked as a student volunteer at NeurIPS'20.

[Sep 2020] Our paper "Creativity in Temporal Social Networks: How Divergent Thinking is Impacted by One’s Choice of Peers" got accepted by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Yay!

[Aug 2020]  I got accepted for the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2020!

[Oct 2019] Represented Hajim College of Engineering and talked about the work we do at the ROC-HCI Lab at the inauguration ceremony of Sarah Mangelsdorf, the 11th president of the University of Rochester.

[Sep 2019]  Presented my paper, "Upskilling together: How peer-interaction influences speaking-skills development online", at ACII'19! I was also a co-author in a second paper, "LIWC into the eyes: Using facial features to contextualize linguistic analysis in multimodal communication". Visiting Cambridge, UK, was a fascinating experience.