Computing platforms shape our interactions with each other: from social media, to team software, to massive-scale online collaborations, to the interplay of technology and society. Our research melds together insights from the social sciences with design and engineering to re-envision how these social platforms operate.

Michael Bernstein is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he is a Bass University Fellow. His research in human-computer interaction focuses on the design of social computing systems. This research has won best paper awards at top conferences in human-computer interaction, including CHI, CSCW, ICWSM, and UIST, and has been reported in venues such as The New York Times, Wired, Science, and Nature. Michael has been recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, UIST Lasting Impact Award, and the Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Prize. He holds a bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, as well as a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.

Publications

Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Joseph O'Brien, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
UIST 2023
Wanrong He, Mitchell L. GordonMitchell L. Gordon, Lindsay PopowskiLindsay Popowski, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
CSCW 2023best paper
Helena Vasconcelos, Matthew Jörke, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Tobias Gerstenberg, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein, Ranjay KrishnaRanjay Krishna
CSCW 2023honorable mention
Omar ShaikhOmar Shaikh, Hongxin Zhang, William Held, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang
ACL 2023
Michelle S. LamMichelle S. Lam, Zixian Ma, Anne Li, Izequiel Freitas, Dakuo Wang, James A. Landay, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CHI 2023
Hancheng Cao, Yujie Lu, Yuting Deng, Daniel McFarland, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
CHI 2023best paper
Zixian Ma, Rose Wang, Li Fei-Fei, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein, Ranjay KrishnaRanjay Krishna
NeurIPS 2022
Michelle S. LamMichelle S. Lam, Mitchell L. GordonMitchell L. Gordon, Danaë Metaxa, Jeffrey T. Hancock, James A. Landay, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2022
Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Joseph SeeringJoseph Seering, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2022
Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Lindsay PopowskiLindsay Popowski, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
UIST 2022
Ranjay KrishnaRanjay Krishna, Donsuk Li, Li Fei-Fei, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
PNAS 2022
Mitchell L. GordonMitchell L. Gordon, Michelle S. LamMichelle S. Lam, Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Kayur Patel, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CHI 2022Best Paper
Durim MorinaDurim Morina, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2022
Christina A. Pan, Sahil Yakhmi, Tara P. Iyer, Evan Strasnick, Amy X. ZhangAmy X. Zhang, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2022
Xinlan Emily Hu, Rebecca Hinds, Melissa A. Valentine, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2022
Joseph SeeringJoseph Seering, Brianna Dym, Geoff Kaufman, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
JOTS 2022
Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein, Margaret Levi, David Magnus, Betsy Rajala, Debra Satz, Quinn WaeissQuinn Waeiss
PNAS 2021
Ranjay KrishnaRanjay Krishna, Mitchell GordonMitchell Gordon, Li Fei-Fei, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
AI for HCI: Modern Approach 2021
Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Chris Donahue, Mina Lee, Siddharth Karamcheti, Dorsa Sadigh, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein
arXiv 2021
Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein, Margaret Levi, David Magnus, Betsy Rajala, Debra Satz, Quinn WaeissQuinn Waeiss
arXiv 2021
Joon Sung ParkJoon Sung Park, Michael S. BernsteinMichael S. Bernstein, Robin N. Brewer, Ece Kamar, Meredith Ringel Morris
AIES 2021
Mitchell GordonMitchell Gordon, Kaitlyn Zhou, Kayur Patel, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
CHI 2021
Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark WhitingMark Whiting, Michael BernsteinMichael Bernstein
CHI 2021
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Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

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Teaching 2023–2024
Winter

previous courses

2020–2021
Fall
Winter
2013-2014
Office hours: Thursdays 1pm-2:15pm

Talks and Events
01 Sep
International Conference on Social Computing
21 Sep
Grant Program Review @ Harvard
06 Oct
Seattle
13 Oct
CS Faculty Retreat
16 Oct
17 Oct
Michigan AI symposium
30 Oct
06 Nov
15 Dec
NeurIPS workshops
23 Dec
Sri Lanka SIGCHI Winter School

Ph.D. alumni
Mitchell
Mitchell Gordon
Assistant Professor, MIT
Ranjay
Ranjay Krishna
Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Geza
Geza Kovacs
Senior Research Scientist, Google
Niloufar
Niloufar Salehi
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Ethan
Ethan Fast
Co-founder, Vcreate
Justin
Justin Cheng
Research Scientist, Meta Core Data Science
Daniela
Daniela Retelny Blum
UX Research, Instagram
Joy
Joy Kim
Research Scientist, Adobe
Chinmay
Chinmay Kulkarni
Associate Professor, Emory
Postdoc alumni
Chenyan
Chenyan Jia
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Joseph
Joseph Seering
Assistant Professor, KAIST
Amy
Amy X. Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Mark
Mark Whiting
Senior Computational Social Scientist, University of Pennsylvania
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