Hongtao Hao
Fifth-Year PhD Student in Computer Science
CS Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: hongtaoh@cs.wisc.edu
GitHub: @hongtaoh
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BIO
Hongtao Hao is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is fortunate to work with Professor Joseph Austerweil . His research interests encompass machine learning (with applications in healthcare and social sciences), stochastic processes, and Bayesian nonparametrics.
He earned his Master’s degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the Media School of Indiana University in 2020, advised by Dr. Nicole Martins . Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he volunteered as a research assistant for Yong-Yeol Ahn from August 2020 to August 2021. He also holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Renmin University of China (Beijing) and an undergraduate degree in English from Hebei Normal University (Shijiazhuang).
WORKS
(underline authors contributed equally)
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Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)
Haley R Hatfield, Hongtao Hao, Matthew Klein, Jing Zhang, Yijie Fu, Jaemin Kim, Jongmin Lee, Sun Joo Ahn
Journal of Communication (2025) -
Investigating interaction modes and user agency in human-llm collaboration for domain-specific data analysis
Jiajing Guo, Vikram Mohanty, Jorge H Piazentin Ono, Hongtao Hao, Liang Gou, Liu Ren
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2024) -
Can LLMS infer domain knowledge from code exemplars? A preliminary study
Jiajing Guo, Vikram Mohanty, Hongtao Hao, Liang Gou, Liu Ren
Companion Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2024) -
Selfie-editing among young Chinese women may have little to do with self-objectification
Hongtao Hao
Current Psychology (2024) -
Thirty-Two Years of IEEE VIS: Authors, Fields of Study and Citations
Hongtao Hao, Yumian Cui, Zhengxiang Wang, Yea-Seul Kim
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2022)