Dipto Das

• Ben Zefeng Zhang, Dipto Das, and Bryan Semaan. 2025. Identity Alignment and the Sociotechnical Mechanisms of Reconfiguring Emotional Labor in Transnational Gig Education Platforms. To appear In Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices (JCSCW).

• Divyanshu Kumar Singh, Dipto Das, and Bryan Semaan. 2025. The Power of Language: Resisting Western Heteropatriarchal Normative Writing Standards. To appear In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).

• Erina Seh-Young Moon, Devansh Saxena, Dipto Das, and Shion Guha. 2025. The Datafication of Care in Public Homelessness Services. To appear In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
  Best Paper Honorable Mention

• Ananya Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, S M Taiabul Haque, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2025. Residual Mobilities and Religious Practices: Exploring the Experiences of the Hindu Migrants in Canada. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (PACMHCI: CSCW '25).

• Achhiya Sultana*, Dipto Das*, Saadia Binte Alam, Mohammad Shidujaman, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2024. A Civics-Oriented Approach to Understanding Intersectionally Marginalized Users' Experience with Hate Speech Online. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '24). * Equal contribution, student author is put first.

• Dipto Das, Dhwani Gandhi, and Bryan Semaan. 2024. Reimagining Communities through Transnational Decolonial Discourse: The Case of Online Video-Mediated Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (PACMHCI: CSCW '24).

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat*, Dipto Das*, Arpon Podder, Mahiratul Jannat, Robert Soden, Bryan Semaan, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2024. The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (PACMHCI: CSCW '24). * Equal contribution, student author is put first.

• Dipto Das, Shion Guha, Jed Brubaker, and Bryan Semaan. 2024. The "Colonial Impulse" of Natural Language Processing: An Audit of Bengali Sentiment Analysis Tools and Their Identity-based Biases. In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24).

• Dipto Das, Shion Guha, and Bryan Semaan. 2023. Toward Cultural Bias Evaluation Datasets: The Case of Bengali Gender, Religious, and National Identity. In Proceedings of Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-C3NLP '23).

• Dipto Das, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, S M Taiabul Haque, Jukka Vuorinen, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2022. Understanding the Strategies and Practices of Facebook Microcelebrities for Engaging in Sociopolitical Discourses. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '22).

• Dipto Das and Bryan Semaan. 2022. Collaborative Identity Decolonization as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: Identity Work of Bengali Communities on Quora. In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22).

• Dipto Das, Carsten Østerlund, and Bryan Semaan. 2021. "Jol" or "Pani"?: How Does Governance Shape a Platform's Identity? In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (PACMHCI: CSCW '21).
  Best Paper Honorable Mention
  Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion

• Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Iffat Jahan Antara, Dipto Das, Priyank Chandra, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Md Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2020. We Need More Power to Stand Up: Designing to Combat Stigmatization of the Caregivers of Children with Autism in Urban Bangladesh. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '20).

• Dipto Das and Anthony J. Clark. 2019. Satire vs Fake News: You Can Tell by the Way They Say It. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI '19).

• Dipto Das and Anthony J. Clark. 2019. Construct of Sarcasm on social media platform. In Proceedings of IEEE international conference on humanized computing and communication (HCC '19).

• Sk. Adnan Hassan, Dipto Das, Anindya Iqbal, Amiangshu Bosu, Rifat Shahriyar, and Toufique Ahmed. 2018. SOQDE: A Supervised Learning Based Question Difficulty Estimation Model for Stack Overflow In Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC '18).

• Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Dipto Das, and Farhana Murtaza Choudhury. 2018. Social Media Question Asking (SMQA): Whom Do We Tag and Why? In Proceedings of Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI '18).

• Dipto Das and Anthony J. Clark. 2018. Sarcasm Detection on Flickr Using a CNN. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computing and Big Data (ICCBD '18).

• Louisa Kayah Williams, Rayan Awad Alim, Reem Talhouk, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Lynn Kirabo Hixon, Carleen Maitland, Tajanae Harris, Vishal Sharma, Dipto Das, Bryan Semaan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Robert Soden. 2024. HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis. In ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '24).

• Dipto Das, Parboti Roy, Carlos Toxtli-Hernández, Kagonya Awori, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Monojit Choudhury, Neha Kumar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Bryan Semaan. 2023. Conceptualizing Indigeneity in Social Computing. In ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '23).

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Ayesha Bhimdiwala, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Amna Batool, Dipto Das, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Abdullah Hasan Safir, Sharifa Sultana, Taslima Akter, C. Estelle Smith, Bryan Semaan, Shaimaa Lazem, Michael Muller, Robert Soden, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2023. Many Worlds of Ethics: Ethical Pluralism in CSCW. In ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '23).

• Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Delvin Varghese, Cuauhtemoc Rivera-Loaiza, Faria Noor, Dipto Das, Pranjal Jain, Meiyin Chang, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Naveena Karusala, Nova Ahmed, Sarina C Till, Bernard Ijesunor Akhigbe, Melissa Densmore, Susan Dray, Christian Sturm, and Neha Kumar. 2023. HCI Across Borders: Towards Global Solidarity. In ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).

• Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Naveena Karusala, Cuauhtemoc Rivera-Loaiza, Annu Sible Prabhakar, Rama Adithya Varanasi, Anupriya Tuli, Dilrukshi Gamage, Faria Noor, David Nemer, Dipto Das, Susan Dray, Christian Sturm, and Neha Kumar. 2022. HCI Across Borders: Navigating Shifting Borders at CHI. In ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22).

• Ben Zefeng Zhang, Dipto Das, and Bryan Semaan. 2024. Identity Alignment and the Sociotechnical Reconfigurations of Emotional Labor in Transnational Gig-education Platforms. In Quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science (EASST-4S '24). [Position paper]

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Zaidat Ibrahim, Sharifa Sultana, C. Estelle Smith, Jed Brubaker, Robert Soden, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2024. Religion, faith and spirituality, secularism, disciplinary paradigms. In Northeast HCI Meeting (Northeast HCI '24). [Position paper]

• Dipto Das. 2023. Studying Multi-dimensional Marginalization of Identity from Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '23). [Doctoral consortium]

• Dipto Das. 2023. Decolonization through Technology and Decolonization of Technology. In ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '23). [Doctoral consortium]

• Dipto Das and Bryan Semaan. 2022. Decolonial and Postcolonial Computing Research: A Scientometric Exploration. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '22). [Poster]

• Dipto Das, Arpon Podder, and Bryan Semaan. 2022. A Sociomaterial Perspective on Trace Data Collection: Strategies for Democratizing and Limiting Bias. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '22). [Note]

• Dipto Das, Malay Bhattacharyya, Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, Ebtisam Alabdulqader, and Nova Ahmed. 2022. Importance of Digital Profile Pictures on Social Media Perceived by Different Groups. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '22). [Note]

• Joshua Introne, Dipto Das, Akit Kumar, and Lizhen Liang. 2022. Mapping Belief Landscapes in Social Media. In International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 '22). [Position paper]

• Dipto Das and Bryan Semaan. 2020. quoras: A Python API for Quora Data Collection to Increase Multi-Language Social Science Research. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '20). [Poster]

• Dipto Das, Md. Forhad Hossain, and Anthony J. Clark. 2019. Understanding the Attention Model of Humans in Sarcastic Videos. In IEEE International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI '19). [Short paper]

• Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, Najmul Islam, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2019. Microcelebrities in Bangladesh. In HCI Across Borders and Intersections Workshop at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-HCIxB '19). [Position paper]

• Dipto Das and Anthony J. Clark. 2018. Sarcasm Detection on Facebook: A Supervised Learning Approach. In ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '18). [Late breaking work]

• Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Dipto Das, Imtiaz Karim, Shuha Nabila, and Arnob Paul. 2017. Cost-Efficient Smart Street Lighting System. In International Conference on Networking, Systems, and Security (NSysS '17). [Poster]

• Anurata Prabha Hridi, Dipto Das, Md Monowar Anjum, and Tanmay Das. 2016. Faster Evacuation after Disaster: Finding Alternative Routes Using Probable Human Behavior. In ACM SIGCAS Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV '16). [Poster]

• Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Information | Fall 2024 - present

• Assistant Teaching Professor (part-time) | Department of Information Science | Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

• PhD in Information Science | August 2024
• MS in Information Science | May 2023

• MS in Computer Science | August 2019

• BSEngg in Computer Science and Engineering | September 2017

• Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Information | University of Toronto, ON, Canada | Fall 2024 - present
  Worked with Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (Dynamic Graphics Project Lab) and Shion Guha (Human-Centered Data Science Lab)
• Graduate Research Assistant | University of Colorado Boulder (transferred from Syracuse University) | Advised by Bryan Semaan | Fall 2019 - Summer 2024
• Graduate Research Assistant | Syracuse University | Mentored by Carsten Østerlund | Fall 2019 - Summer 2021
• Graduate Assistant | Missouri State University | Advised by Anthony J Clark | Spring 2018 - Summer 2019
• Undergraduate Researcher | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology | Advised by Rifat Shahriyar and Anindya Iqbal | 2016 - 2017

• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award | ACM CHI | 2025
• Computing Equipment Grant | University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) | 2024 ($2000)
• Graduate School Travel Grant | CU Boulder | 2024 ($450)
• Teaching Excellence Award | Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG), CU Boulder | 2024 ($400)
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Excellence Award | GPSG, CU Boulder | 2024 ($400)
• Award of Excellence for Outstanding Research | Department of Information Science, CU Boulder | 2024
• Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews | ACM CHI (4 times), ACM CSCW
• GPSG Travel Grant | CU Boulder | 2024 ($500)
• Doctoral Research Fund | College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI), CU Boulder | 2023 ($1,000)
• ACM CSCW Doctoral Consortium Travel Support | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 2023
• Doctoral Student Attendee Support | Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) | 2023 ($600)
• Cross-Cultural Context in NLP Registration Scholarship | EACL | 2023 ($200)
• ACM GROUP Doctoral Consortium Travel Support | NSF | 2023
• Martin Scholarship | CMCI, CU Boulder | 2022 ($2,500)
• COMPASS-ICTD Student Travel Grant | ACM and Meta | 2022
• Doctoral Student Travel Scholarship | CMCI, CU Boulder | 2022-2023 ($1,000)
• Nomination for Google PhD Fellowship | CU Boulder | 2021
• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award | ACM CSCW | 2021
• Recognition for Diversity and Inclusion | ACM CSCW | 2021
• Graduate Student Fellowship | Department of Information Science, CU Boulder | 2021 ($2,000)
• Higher Studies Abroad Travel Grant | Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund | 2021 (30,000 BDT)
• NSF Grant Writing Workshop Registration Waiver | Syracuse University Graduate School | 2021 ($100)
• PhD Student Travel Support | School of Information Studies, Syracuse University | 2020 ($1,500)
• Winter School Attendance Scholarship | New England Complex Systems Institute | 2020
• Late Breaking Results Travel Grant | ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction | 2018 ($500)
• Winner (Top Three), 3-Minute Thesis Competition | College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Missouri State University | 2018
• Second Runner-up, Youth Earthquake Preparedness Campaign | UNDP and Bangladesh Government | 2016
• Champion, Business Case Competition | BUET Entrepreneurship Development Club | 2016 (50,000 BDT)
• Champion, Humanitarian App Idea Contest | IEEE Bangladesh Section | 2016
• Runner-up, Esonance Technical Poster Presentation | IEEE Islamic University of Technology Branch | 2016
• Bangladesh National Merit Scholarship | 2013-2017 (Undergraduate tuition fee waiver with stipend, 14,000 BDT)

• University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Information Science | Fall 2021 - Fall 2023
  Assistant Teaching Professor (part-time), INFO 1301 - Statistics for Information Science, INFO 2301 - Quantitative Reasoning
• University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Information Science | Fall 2021 - Fall 2023
  Graduate Part-Time Instructor, INFO 1301 - Statistics for Information Science, INFO 4609 - User-Centered Design
• University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Information Science | Fall 2021 - Fall 2023
  Teaching Assistant in INFO 1111 - Understanding the World Through Data, INFO 1201 - Computational Reasoning, INFO 1301 - Statistics for Information Science
• Syracuse University, School of Information Studies | Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
  Teaching Assistant in IST 300 - Digital Platforms, IST 343 - Data in Society, IST 421 - Information Visualization, IST 649 - Human Interaction with Computers
• Missouri State University, Department of Computer Science | Spring 2018 - Spring 2019
  Teaching Assistant in CSC 130 - The World of Computer Science, CSC 131 - Computational Thinking
• Dhaka International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh | September 2017 - December 2017
  Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Courses taught: Compiler Design (theory and lab), Algorithm Design and Analysis (theory and lab), Computer Organization and Architecture

Plain and old pencil sketch is my go-to medium, but I do paint with acrylic and water color depending on the subject. Human figures with abstractions connecting those with social and cultural sentiments is what I often consider as the topic of my drawings. A series of five paintings I worked on during grad school was "Durga" depicting different ways divine feminine energy is culturally conceptualized in Bengal.

Miscellaneous

I love traveling to new places. Be that relaxing on the beach in the St. Martin's Island on a full moon light or hiking on high-altitude tracks in Colorado, I hum my favorite classical Bengali or American country music. You can check out my Soundcloud profile. With an interested group, I also enjoy telling or listening to stories. Of what kind? The time I was stuck in an airport for three days straight, or the time I sneaked out of house in middle school! Maybe, you can taste some of my recipes as we share those stories.