Publications
8 papers · 4 accepted · 4 first-author. ✱ denotes equal contribution. See also: Public Writing.
Do We Know What They Know We Know? Calibrating Student Trust in AI and Human Responses Through Mutual Theory of Mind
CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts · ACM
AI-Mediated Negotiation: Design Reflections and Lessons
CSCW 2026 Companion Publications · Preprint
When AI Supports Emotionally Demanding Service Work: Experimental Evidence from Customer Service Interactions
AI and the Future of Work 2026 · Wharton Human-AI Research
Inform, Coach, Relate, Listen: Auditing LLM Caregiving Support Roles
Under review · Preprint
When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-Like Caregiver Support
HCOMP 2026 · Preprint
Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workplace Negotiation
Under review · Preprint
Does AI Coaching Prepare Us for Workplace Negotiations?
Under review · Preprint
The Social Gaze of LLMs: A Literature Review of Multimodal Approaches to Human Behavior Understanding
Under review · Preprint
Public Writing
Essays, blog posts, and other writing outside the academic publication pipeline.
From Diamond Mining to Open-World Survival: Alignment and Misalignment in RL Agents
Daniel Zhang, Melvin Huang, Hassan Dawy, Veda Duddu, Kevin Zhu, Sean O’Brien, Vasu Sharma, Sunishchal Dev
LessWrong · 2025 · Blog post