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HCOMP 2026 / Organizers

Organizing Committees

We are tremendously grateful to all of the volunteers organizing the co-located HCOMP 2026 and Collective Intelligence (CI) 2026 conferences!

HCOMP 2026 General Chair

Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

The Pennsylvania State University

HCOMP 2026 Program Co-Chairs

Chien-Ju Ho

Washington University in St. Louis

Tianyi Li

Purdue University

HCOMP 2026 Posters and Demos Co-Chairs

Oana Inel

University of Zurich

Hari Subramonyam

Stanford University

HCOMP 2026 Workshops Co-Chair

Senjuti Dutta

University of Tennessee

HCOMP 2026 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair

Joel Chan

University of Maryland

HCOMP 2026 CrowdCamp Co-Chairs

Brian McInnis

University of Texas at Austin

Stephanie Valencia

University of Maryland, College Park

HCOMP 2026 Publicity Co-Chair

Gaole He

National University of Singapore

HCOMP 2026 Design & Website Co-Chairs

Yu-Ting Cheng

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Ho Yin 'Sam' Ng

The Pennsylvania State University

HCOMP 2026 Local Arrangement Chair

Zinat Ara

George Mason University, USA

HCOMP 2026 Industry and Sponsors Co-Chair

Sungsoo Ray Hong

George Mason University

HCOMP 2026 Student Volunteers Chair

Ruyuan Wan

The Pennsylvania State University

HCOMP 2026 Program Committee

  • Omar Alonso, Amazon
  • Boualem Benatallah, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Umang Bhatt, University of Cambridge
  • Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano
  • Samuel Carton, University of New Hampshire
  • Fabio Casati, Servicenow
  • Shih-Fen Cheng, Singapore Management University
  • John Chung, Midjourney
  • Katie Collins, MIT
  • Jingchao Fang, University of Chicago
  • Nitesh Goyal, Google DeepMind
  • Haym Hirsh, Cornell University
  • Matthias Hirth, TU Ilmenau
  • Chieh-Yang Huang
  • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University
  • Yoonjoo Lee, University of Michigan
  • Rhema Linder, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba
  • Mahsan Nourani, Northeastern University
  • Praveen Paritosh, MLCommons
  • Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London
  • Hemant Purohit, George Mason University
  • Divya Ramesh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Amy Rechkemmer, King's College London
  • Manaswi Saha, Accenture Labs
  • Hua Shen, NYU Shanghai
  • Adish Singla, MPI-SWS
  • Keishi Tajima, Kyoto University
  • Jacob Thebault-Spieker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Maja Vukovic, IBM
  • Jérôme Waldispühl, McGill University
  • Jingyan Wang, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
  • Jie Yang, Delft University of Technology

HCOMP Steering Committee

Michael Bernstein

Stanford University
HCOMP 2023 Co-Chair

Jeffrey Bigham

Carnegie Mellon University and Apple
HCOMP 2014 Co-Chair

Alessandro Bozzon

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
HCOMP 2023 Co-Chair

Gianluca Demartini

The University of Queensland, Australia
HCOMP 2024 Co-Chair

Ujwal Gadiraju

Delft University of Technology
HCOMP 2024 Co-Chair

Jane Hsu

National Taiwan University
HCOMP 2022 Co-Chair

Ece Kamar

Microsoft
HCOMP 2021 Co-Chair

Gabriella Kazai

Amazon
Committee Co-Chair and HCOMP 2018 Co-Chair

Kurt Luther

Virginia Tech
Committee Co-Chair and HCOMP 2021 Co-Chair

Saiph Savage

Northeastern University
HCOMP 2023 Co-Chair

Elena Simperl

King's College London
HCOMP 2020 Co-Chair

Ming Yin

Purdue University
HCOMP 2022 Co-Chair

Collective Intelligence (CI) 2026 General Chair

Kurt Luther

Virginia Tech

CI 2026 Program Co-Chairs

Jason W. Burton

University of Copenhagen

Ioanna Lykourentzou

Utrecht University

CI 2026 Posters and Demos Co-Chairs

Vineet Pandey

University of Utah

CI 2026 Workshops Co-Chair

Vikram Mohanty

Carnegie Mellon University

CI 2026 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair

Wesley Hanwen Deng

Microsoft Research

CI 2026 CrowdCamp Co-Chairs

Yaxing Yao

Johns Hopkins University

Yasmine Kotturi

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

CI 2026 Publicity Co-Chair

Saiph Savage

Northeastern University

CI 2026 Local Arrangements Chair

Gaurab Pokharel

Virginia Tech, USA

CI 2026 Industry and Sponsors Co-Chair

Alice Jang

Virginia Tech

CI 2026 Student Volunteers Chair

Kirk Knutsen

Virginia Tech