Scholar
Sanjay Kairam
Google Scholar ID: BH7jpGIAAAAJ
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Citations & Impact
Citations
562
H-index
12
i10-index
15
Publications
20
Co-authors
38
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- "Snap Decisions? How Users, Content, and Aesthetics Interact to Shape Photo Sharing Behaviors", CHI 2016 (First author)
- "Parting Crowds: Identifying Divergent Interpretations in Crowdsourced Annotation Tasks", CSCW 2016 (First author)
- "Refinery: Visual Exploration of Large, Heterogeneous Networks through Associative Browsing", EuroVis 2015 (First author)
- "A Knowledge Tracing Model of Learning from a Social Tagging System", UMUAI 2013 (Second author), James Chen Best Paper Award
- "Towards Supporting Search over Trending Events with Social Media", ICWSM 2013 (First author), Honorable Mention
Background
- Researcher in HCI, Social Computing, and Information Visualization
- Currently working as a Data/Research Scientist at Twitch, analyzing user engagement with social discovery products
- Focuses on how users interact with information in online environments
- Dissertation examined online self-disclosure practices, particularly 'selective sharing'—sharing content with specific subgroups of connections
- Aims to understand variations in selective sharing across social platforms and build models to predict audience selection decisions
- Other research topics include interface design for socially-mediated information consumption, collective behavior in online groups, and interactive visualization systems for large networks
