I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at Florida State University. I am also a Faculty Associate and former Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Before joining FSU, I was a postdoctoral researcher under the mentorship of Dr. Deen Freelon at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Inequality in America Initiative (IAI) at Harvard University.
My research spans the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), human-AI Interaction (HAI), and social computing. I design educational tools and interventions that empower users to understand and engage with AI systems in their work, learning, and community life. My work has been published in the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the ACM Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), the ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), and the International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O).
I am recruiting 1–2 Ph.D. students to begin in Fall 2026 in the areas of HCI and HAI!
Education
Ph.D., Information Science and Technology, Syracuse University, 2016-2022
M.S., Information Science, Peking University, 2014-2016
B.S., Information Management and System, Peking University, 2010-2014
Research Interests
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered AI, Critical Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Social Computing.
Teaching Interests
User Experience Design; Info and Data Visualization.
Publications & Research
Please refer to my Google Scholar for the most recent updates on publications.
Asterisk (*) denotes the student I mentored or co-mentored; obelisk (†) denotes equal contribution.
Chen, Qijia*, Qunfang Wu, and Giulio Jacucci. "Democratic Moderation: Exploring the Use and Perception of Votekicking in Social Virtual Reality." In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-18. 2025. 🔗 📄
Li, Wenqi*, Jui-Ching Kuo*, Manyu Sheng*, Pengyi Zhang, and Qunfang Wu. "Beyond Explicit and Implicit: How Users Provide Feedback to Shape Personalized Recommendation Content." In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-17. 2025. 🔗 📄
Wan, Ruyuan*†, Lingbo Tong*†, Tiffany Knearem, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ting-Hao'Kenneth Huang, and Qunfang Wu. "Hashtag re-appropriation for audience control on recommendation-driven social media Xiaohongshu (rednote)." In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-25. 2025. 🏅🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang†, and Lu Xian†. “Designing an Intervention Tool for End-User Algorithm Audits in Personalized Recommendation Systems”. In: The 7th FAccTRec Workshop: Responsible Recommendation. 2024. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, Tayara Romero*, and Bryan Semaan. “Negotiating Sociotechnical Boundaries: Moderation Work to Counter Racist Attacks in Online Communities.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-15. 2024. 🔗 📄
Qin, Yigang*, Weilun Duan*, Qunfang Wu, and Zhicong Lu. “Dismantling Gender Blindness in Online Discussion of a Crime/Gender Dichotomy.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8, no. CSCW1 (2024): 1-31. 🔗 📄
Freelon, Deen, Meredith L. Pruden, Daniel Malmer, Qunfang Wu, Yiping Xia, Daniel Johnson, Emily Chen, and Andrew Crist. “What’s in your PIE? Understanding the contents of personalized information environments with PIEGraph.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2024). 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, and Bryan Semaan. “” How Do You Quantify How Racist Something Is?”: Color-Blind Moderation in Decentralized Governance.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, no. CSCW2 (2023): 1-27. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, and Jeff Hemsley. “Hyper‐Local Fear of Crime: Identifying Linguistic Cues of Fear in Crime Talk on Reddit.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60, no. 1 (2023): 456-468. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, Yisi Sang, Dakuo Wang, and Zhicong Lu. “Malicious selling strategies in livestream E-commerce: A case study of alibaba’s taobao and ByteDance’s TikTok.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 30, no. 3 (2023): 1-29. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, Louisa Kayah Williams*, Ellen Simpson, and Bryan Semaan. “Conversations About Crime: Re-Enforcing and Fighting Against Platformed Racism on Reddit.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, no. CSCW1 (2022): 1-38. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, and Yun Huang. “Examining police agencies’ dialogic accounting practices in Facebook conversations.” Digital Government: Research and Practice 1.2 (2020): 1-17. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, Yisi Sang, Qunfang Wu, and Yaxing Yao. “Higher education check-ins: Exploring the user experience of hybrid location sensing.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3, no. CSCW (2019): 1-26. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, Yisi Sang, and Yun Huang. “Danmaku: a new paradigm of social interaction via online videos.” ACM Transactions on Social Computing 2, no. 2 (2019): 1-24. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, Yisi Sang, Qunfang Wu, and Yaxing Yao. “Studying user experience of a hybrid location sensing system.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-6. 2019. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, Qunfang Wu, and Yaxing Yao. “Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons Alone Didn’t Work!.” In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, pp. 62-65. 2018. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, and Qunfang Wu. “Understanding interactions between municipal police departments and the public on Twitter.” In International conference on information, pp. 37-46. Springer, Cham, 2018. 🏆 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, Yisi Sang, Shan Zhang, and Yun Huang. “Danmaku vs. forum comments: understanding user participation and knowledge sharing in online videos.” In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM conference on supporting groupwork, pp. 209-218. 2018. 🔗 📄
Wu, Qunfang, and Yun Huang. “Examining Q&A of peer tutor learning via online videos.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-6. 2018. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, Qunfang Wu, and Youyang Hou. “Examining Twitter mentions between police agencies and public users through the lens of stakeholder theory.” In Proceedings of the 18th Annual international conference on digital government research, pp. 30-38. 2017. 🔗 📄
Huang, Yun, Qunfang Wu, Xing Huang, and Jennifer Bort. “A multiplatform investigation of law enforcement agencies on social media.” Information Polity 22, no. 2-3 (2017): 179-196. 🔗 📄