Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Tahiya Chowdhury and Amanda Stent. “Become an AI Tool User or Builder: Designing an Introductory AI Course in a Liberal Arts Context.” In the forthcoming issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education. [Link] (Just accepted)

2. Tahiya Chowdhury. “How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks.” In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2026). [Link] (to appear)

3. Veronica Romero, Tahiya Chowdhury, Alexandra Paxton, and Muneeb Nafees*. “The MultiSOCIAL Toolbox: An Open-Source Toolkit for Advancing Multimodal Interaction Research.”  In the forthcoming issue of Behavior Research Methods (BRM). (Accepted, in press)

4. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations.” In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2026). [Link]

5. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Predicting Cognitive Load from Speech and Interaction Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations.” In Proceedings of the 27th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2026). [Link] (to appear)

6. Ahmed Qayyum*, Madison Werner, Kathryn Youngblood, Jenna R. Jambeck, and Tahiya Chowdhury. “SpheriCity: Designing Interaction for Sustainability Decision Making with Expert Knowledge.” In Proceedings of 9th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM COMPASS 2026). [Link]

7. Rishit Chatterjee* and Tahiya Chowdhury. “Data-driven Lake Water Quality Forecasting for Time Series with Missing Data using Machine Learning”, 13th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (IEEE SusTech 2026). [Link] 

8. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Engaging with Bias in Computer Vision: A Group Assignment,” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Model AI Assignment Track.

9. Tahiya Chowdhury and Veronica Romero. “Can We Trust Machine Learning? The Reliability of Features from Open-Source Speech Analysis Tools for Speech Modeling,” In Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2025). [Link]

10. Chengyu Fan* and Tahiya Chowdhury. “When Pose Estimation Fails: Measuring Occlusion for Reliable Multimodal Interaction,” In Companion Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI Companion ’25). [Link]

11. Saki Imai*, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Amanda Stent. “Evaluating Open-Source ASR Systems: Performance Across Diverse Audio Conditions and Error Correction Methods,” In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING ‘25). [Link]

12. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Computational Thinking with Computer Vision: Developing AI Competency in an Introductory Computer Science Course,” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ‘25). [Link]

13. Raymond Wang*, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Alejandra C. Ortiz. “Semantic Segmentation Framework for Atoll Satellite Imagery: An In-depth Exploration using UNet Variants and Segmentation Gym,” Applied Computing and Geosciences, 2025. [Link]

14. Chengyu Fan*, Veronica Romero, Alexandra Paxton, and Tahiya Chowdhury. “Towards Multimodality: Comparing Quantifications of Movement Coordination,” In Proceedings of International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI Companion ’24). [Link]

15. Raymond Wang*, Nicholas Record, D. Whitney King, and Tahiya Chowdhury. “Designing A Sustainable Marine Debris Clean-up Framework without Human Labels,” In Proceedings of 7th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM COMPASS ’24). [Link]

16. Tahiya Chowdhury, Veronica Romero, and Amanda Stent. “Parameter Selection for Analyzing Conversations with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2023). [Link]

17. Veronica Romero, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Alexandra Paxton. “Language in the Time of COVID: Sensitivity of Linguistic Alignment to Conversation Type and Communication Modality,” In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023). [Link]

18. Tahiya Chowdhury, Veronica Romero, and Amanda Stent. “Interactional Coordination between Conversation Partners with Autism using Non-verbal Cues in Dialogues,” ​​In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Connecting Multiple Disciplines to AI Techniques in Interaction-centric Autism Research and Diagnosis (ICARD), (SIGDIAL 2023). [Link]

19. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Towards Goldilocks Zone in Child-centered AI.” ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Child-centered AI Design: Definition, Operation and Considerations (CCAI 2023). [Link]

20.  Murtadha Aldeer, David Waterworth, Zawar Hussain, Tahiya Chowdhury, Christian Brito, Quan Z Sheng, Richard P Martin, and Jorge Ortiz. “MedBuds: In-Ear Inertial Medication Taking Detection Using Smart Wireless Earbuds,” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS 2022). [Link]

21. Tahiya Chowdhury, Qizhen Ding*, Ilan Mandel, Wendy Ju, and Jorge Ortiz. “Tracking Urban Heartbeat and Policy Compliance through Vision and Language-based Sensing,” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2021). [Link]

22. Tahiya Chowdhury, Ansh Bhatti*, Ilan Mandel, Taqiya Ehsan*, Wendy Ju, and Jorge Ortiz. “Towards Sensing Urban-scale COVID-19 Policy Compliance in New York City,” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2021). [Link]

23. Tong Wu, Murtadha Aldeer, Tahiya Chowdhury, Amber Haynes, Fateme Nikseresht, Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani, Jiechao Gao, Arsalan Heydarian, Brad Campbell, and Jorge Ortiz. “The smart building privacy challenge,” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2021). [Link]

24. Tahiya Chowdhury, Murtadha Aldeer, Justin Yu, and Jorge Ortiz. “Is General Purpose Sensing a Pipe Dream? A Case Study in Ambient Multi-sensing for Human Activity Recognition,” In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS 2021). [Link]

25. Tahiya Chowdhury. “Towards Reducing Labeling Efforts in IoT-based Machine Learning Systems,” Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2021). [Link]

Works In Progress

1. Qiulin Zeng, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Md Shafayat Hossain. “Generative Discovery of Magnetic Insulators under Competing Physical Constraints.” (under review)

2. Hossain Hridoy, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Md Shafayat Hossain. “Expanding the extreme-κ dielectric materials space through physics-validated generative reasoning.” (under review)

3. Prachet Poddar*, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Md Shafayat Hossain.  “Substructure-Conditional Critical Current Density Prediction from Heterogeneous Superconductor Literature.” (in submission)

4. Tahiya Chowdhury. “The Cognitive Tax of Power: Impact of Social Framing and Gender on Conversation Evaluation.”  (in preparation)

5. Rishit Chatterjee*, Gent Maksutaj*, Adrian Gellert*, Danielle Wain, D. Whitney King, and Tahiya Chowdhury. “Forecasting Lake Water Quality using Multivariate Time Series with Missing Data.” (in preparation)

6. Rishit Chatterjee* and Tahiya Chowdhury. “Efficiency-Performance Trade-offs in Neural Speaker Diarization via Structured Pruning and Low-Bit Quantization”.  (preprint)

7. Tahiya Chowdhury, Ilan Mandel, Wendy Ju, and Jorge Ortiz. “Designing a User-centric Framework for Information Quality Ranking of Large-scale Street View Images.” (preprint)

8. Matianyu Zhang, Tahiya Chowdhury, and Amanda Stent. “Would I Lie To You: A Multimodal Dataset for Deception Detection.” (technical report)

9. Tahiya Chowdhury, Shantanu Laghate*, Murtadha Aldeer, and Jorge Ortiz. “Cadence: A Practical Time Series Segmentation Algorithm for Unlabeled Sensor Streams.” (preprint)

10. Tahiya Chowdhury. “The Other Side of Black Screen: Rethinking Interaction in Synchronous Remote Learning for Collaborative Programming.” (preprint)

Software and Tools

• Atoll Segmentation: A tool for easy segmentation of atoll morphometrics from satellite imagery.

• MultiSOCIAL: A toolbox for multimodal behavior analysis with no programming needed.

• TrashTrack: A tool for sustainable marine debris clean up without human labels.

• SpheriCity: A conversational AI tool for sustainability decision support.

• Lake Water Quality Dashboard: A dashboard to increase public awareness about water quality in Maine.