Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang 黃挺豪

Associate Professor
College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST)
Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Affiliation: Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
Affiliation: Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI)

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I create technologies that help users.

Combining Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), I build interactive systems to help people achieve their creative and social goals in day-to-day activities.

• Office: E357 Westgate Building
• Email: txh710@psu.edu
• Google Scholar
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• Twitter: @windx0303
• Website: KennethHuang.cc
• ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7021-4627

News

• June 2025 The 3rd SciCap Challenge is launched! (Deadline: Aug 11).
• May 2025 One long paper is accepted by ACL 2025 main track.
• May 2025 Attending CCC Computing Futures Symposium on May 15-16 in Washington, DC.
• May 2025 Invited talk at Dr. Nathan Schneider's group, Georgetown University, on May 14.
• May 2025 Attending the In2Writing Workshop, as part of NAACL 2025.
• April 2025 Attending CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan.
• April 2025 My group is presenting two main conference papers, one LBW paper, and one workshop paper at CHI 2025. Our Red Note paper won the Best Paper Honorable Mention!
• April 2025 PSU Crowd-AI Lab PhD #3, Dr. Ting-Yao (Edward) Hsu, successfully defended his dissertation!
• April 2025 PSU Crowd-AI Lab PhD #1, Dr. Hua Shen, is starting a new faculty position at NYU Shanghai!
• April 2025 Invited talk at JHU's Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP).
• April 2025 Leading the organization of MASC-SLL 2025 at Penn State, with over 100 participants attending in person!
• March 2025 Receiving the Best Paper Award at the AAAI 2025 AI4Research workshop!
• March 2025 Invited talk at the CTO Data Science Speaker Series at Bloomberg in NYC.
• December 2024 Receiving a research grant from Sloan Foundation to foster scientific figure caption writing!

Research Highlights

Teaching

• Spring 2025 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I
• Spring 2025 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I (World Campus)
• Spring 2024 IST526: Development Tools and Visualizations for Human-Computer Interaction (Th 2:30PM-5:30PM, Westgate Bldg E206)
• Spring 2024 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I (Tu/Th 10:35AM-11:50AM, Business Bldg 208)
• Fall 2023 IST597: Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (Th 2:30PM-5:30PM, Westgate Bldg W219)
• Fall 2023 IST402: Crowdsourcing & Crowd-AI Systems (Tu/Th 9:05AM-10:20AM, Westgate Bldg E206)
• Spring 2023 IST402: Crowdsourcing and Crowd-AI Systems (Mon/Wed 14:30-15:45, Willard Bldg 064)
• Fall 2022 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I (Tu/Th 15:05-16:20, Waring Hall 108)
• Spring 2022 IST361: Application Development Design Studio II (Tu/Th 14:30-15:45, Westgate E201)
• Spring 2022 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I (Mon/Wed/Fri 13:25-14:15, Westgate E205)
• Fall 2021 IST597: Crowdsourcing & Crowd-AI Systems (Tue 14:30-17:30, Westgate E210)
• Spring 2021 IST361: Application Development Design Studio II (Tu/Th 9:05-10:20, Zoom)
• Fall 2020 IST261: Application Development Design Studio I (Mon/Wed 16:00-17:15, Zoom)
• Spring 2020 IST402: Crowdsourcing and Crowd-AI Systems (Tue/Thu 10:35-11:50, Boucke 112)
• Fall 2019 IST361: Application Development Design Studio II (Tue 18:00-21:00, Westgate E165)
• Spring 2019 IST597: Crowdsourcing & Crowd-AI Systems (Thu 14:30-17:30, Westgate E210)

Honors

• Dean's Circle of Teaching Excellence for 2023
• Best Paper Award (For Receiving the Highest Score from Expert Reviewers), AsianCHI 2021.
• Outstanding Paper Award (2.5%, 7 out of 282 submissions), IUI 2019.
• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (101/2500 = 5%), CHI 2018.
• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (14/281 = 5%), CHI LBW 2016.
• Yahoo! Fellowship of the InMind project at CMU, 2014 – Present.
• Best Poster Award, LTI Student Research Symposium 2013.