Eshwar Chandrasekharan

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Recent Publications

Bajpai, T., & Chandrasekharan, E. (2026). "think about it like you're a firefighter": Understanding How Reddit Moderators Use the Modqueue. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. Lopez, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, & P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 1571 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791931

Goyal, A., Mukherjee, K., Saxena, A., Phukan, A., Chandrasekharan, E., & Sundaram, H. (2026). Masking or Mitigating? Deconstructing the Impact of Query Rewriting on Retriever Biases in RAG. In M. Liakata, V. P. Moreira, J. Zhang, & D. Jurgens (Eds.), 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 (pp. 8517-8530). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Goyal, A., Lambert, C., & Chandrasekharan, E. (2026). The Language of Approval: Identifying the Drivers of Positive Feedback Online. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. Lopez, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, & P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 1386 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790476

Liu, Y., Choi, F., & Chandrasekharan, E. (2026). Needling Through the Threads: A Visualization Tool for Navigating Threaded Online Discussions. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. Lopez, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, & P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 486 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790365

Choi, F., Lambert, C., Koshy, V., Pratipati, S., Do, T., & Chandrasekharan, E. (2025). Creator Hearts: Investigating the Impact Positive Signals from YouTube Creators in Shaping Comment Section Behavior. In CHI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 1212 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713521

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