Scholar
Alex C. Williams
Google Scholar ID: WyOLLiwAAAAJ
Unknown affiliation
Citations & Impact
Citations
989
H-index
16
i10-index
24
Publications
20
Co-authors
6
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- - PILOT: Steering Synthetic Data Generation with Psychological & Linguistic Output Targeting, 2025
- - Snapper: Accelerating Bounding Box Annotation in Object Detection Tasks with Find-and-Snap Tooling, 2024
- - Toward Faceted Skill Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants, 2024
- - Annorama: Enabling Immersive At-Desk Annotation Experiences in Virtual Reality with 3D Point Cloud Dioramas, 2024
- - Socratic Human Feedback (SoHF): Understanding Socratic Feedback Based Steering Strategies Used by Expert Programmers for Code-generation with LLMs, 2024
- - Characterizing Time Spent in Video Object Tracking Annotation Tasks: A Study of Task Complexity in Vehicle Tracking, 2023
- - Managing Tasks Across the Work-Life Boundary: Opportunities, Challenges, and Directions, 2023
- - Mobilizing Crowdwork: A Systematic Assessment of the Mobile Usability of HITs, 2022
- - “I Didn’t Know I Looked Angry”: Characterizing Observed Emotion and Reported Affect at Work, 2022
- - Motivated to Work or Working to Stay Motivated: A Diary and Interview Study on Working From Home, 2022
- - Dataset Augmentation in Papyrology with Generative Models: A Study of Synthetic Ancient Greek Character Images, 2022
Research Experience
- Work Experience:
- - Microsoft: Principal Applied Science Manager
- - AWS AI: Scientist
- - University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Professor
- - University of California, Irvine: Postdoctoral Researcher
- - During PhD, interned at Microsoft Research's Next-Generation Productivity group and Mozilla Research's Emerging Technologies team.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, advisor unknown.
Background
- Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, machine intelligence, human cognition. Brief Introduction: Currently a Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, leading science efforts that intersect Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Outlook.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Writing blogs
