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Amy Pavel

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Amy Pavel

@amypavel

Asst Prof UC Berkeley EECS. Prev @UTCompSci, @apple, @cmuhcii. HCI+AI+A11y. Creating human-AI tools for effective and accessible communication. 🦋

Berkeley, CA

Joined January 2009

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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Aug 25, 2025
📣I've joined @berkeleyeecs as an Assistant Professor! My lab will join me soon to continue our research in accessibility, HCI, and supporting communication! I'm so excited to make new connections at @UCBerkeley and in the Bay Area more broadly, so please reach out to chat!
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Dec 1, 2021
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining UT Austin’s Department of Computer Science (@UTCompSci) as an Assistant Professor in January 2022!
Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Oct 20, 2023
Our work on making image generation accessible just received ✨🎉 Best Paper Award 🎉✨ at UIST 2023!!! This work was led by @mina1004h and completed in collaboration w/ @yolohao! Project page: minahuh.com/GenAssist/
ACM UIST
@ACMUIST
Oct 20, 2023
Congratulations to the #UIST2023 Best Paper Award Winners (1/3) "GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible" programs.sigchi.org/uist/2023/prog…
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Jan 19, 2024
Our lab's first undergrad-led CHI paper was accepted to CHI 2024! I was so impressed and proud of the quality of work accomplished by this group of UT CS undergrads over a year (also mentored by @mina1004h) & I'm happy that reviewers recognized it too!
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Apr 28, 2023
Congrats to @mina1004h on presenting her work AVscript, an accessible video editor for creators with visual impairments @ #CHI2023! AVscript lets creators skim and edit videos using an audio-visual script that provides info about visual content & errors! minahuh.com/AVscript/
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Nov 4, 2022
Our work CrossA11y (led by @liu_xingyu w/ @dingzzzzli @_xiang_chen_ @V1o6ynne) won a 🎉Best Paper Award🎉 at #uist2022! This work helps authors find inaccessible video segments using cross-modal grounding! Website & demo: xybruceliu.github.io/CrossA11y/ Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Jan 25, 2024
UT just announced a new cluster of 600 H100 GPUs hosted by our Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as part of the new Center for Generative AI!
Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
@MLFoundations
Jan 25, 2024
Please welcome the Center for Generative AI -- a World-Class AI Research Center with a Texas-Sized GPU Cluster. Led by @AlexGDimakis 💫 #YearofAI @TexasScience @UTAustin news.utexas.edu/2024/01/25/new…
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Nov 15, 2024
Congrats to Mina (@mina1004h) on receiving the Google PhD Fellowship in HCI!! 🎉🎉🎉
Mina Huh
@mina1004h
Nov 15, 2024
Honored to receive the Google PhD Fellowship! Special thanks to my Ph.D. advisor @amypavel, undergrad advisor @imjuhokim, and all the incredible mentors and collaborators I had so far. blog.google/technology/res… Thank you @google @GoogleAI for the opportunity!
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Dec 1, 2021
Replying to @amypavel
I am recruiting Ph.D. students to join my group in Fall 2022! If you’re interested in creating new interactive systems, HCI+AI (especially NLP), accessibility, or media authoring (AR/VR/video/streaming), please apply!
Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Oct 17, 2024
Congrats to @mina1004h on presenting her work DesignChecker at #UIST2024 and on a successful conference as Student Volunteer Chair!!
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Oct 15, 2024
So honored to participate in the women’s lunch panel at #UIST2024!! I learned so much from the other panelists ❤️. Many thanks to @PrernaRavi1 for moderating and @shmu_h for sharing this wonderful illustration!
shm garanganao almeda
@shmu_h
Oct 14, 2024
after having multiple work/life/"worrying about the future" type crises this year,,, hearing from these wonderful mentors at the women's panel was really healing for me. Thank you @PrernaRavi1, Wendy, Mira, @amypavel @alexiiion @lining_yao and @parastooabtahi! #UIST2024
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Oct 10, 2024
I just realized we have a rare October conference sweep with @yolohao's DreamStruct @ #ECCV2024 the 1st wk, @mina1004h's LFVQA work @ #COLM2024 the 2nd wk, @mina1004h's DesignChecker @ #UIST2024 the 3rd wk, and @xananyagm's context-aware descriptions @ #ASSETS2024 the 4th wk!
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Mar 1, 2024
I'm delighted to see that my PhD co-advisor @bjo3rn was inducted into the SIGCHI Academy!! Congratulations, Björn 🥳✨🎉
ACM SIGCHI
@sigchi
Feb 29, 2024
🥳👏👏Congratulations to the 2024 ACM #SIGCHI awardees! We recognize 13 SIGCHI members receiving lifetime research and practice, societal impact, and outstanding dissertation awards, as well as 10 being inducted into the SIGCHI Academy! medium.com/sigchi/announc… 1/6🧵
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Amy Pavel
@amypavel
Nov 1, 2022
.@yolohao presenting our new work Diffscriber w/ @jeffbigham @jasonwuishere today at #uist2022 🎉🎃 Diffscriber helps blind and sighted presentation authors work together by describing visual slide changes! Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… 30s Video: youtube.com/watch?v=zzgvQL…