Selected Publications

  1. Pooja S. B. Rao, Laxminarayen Nagarajan Venkatesan, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, and Mauro Cherubini, “Robotic Answers: Participatory Identification of Risks in AI-Assisted Interview Training by Job Seekers” ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2026.
  2. Pooja S. B. Rao, Sanja Šćepanović, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Mauro Cherubini, and Daniele Quercia, “The AI Model Risk Catalog: What Developers and Researchers Miss About Real-World AI Harms.” AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2025.
  3. Pooja S. B. Rao, Laxminarayen Nagarajan Venkatesan, Mauro Cherubini, and Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, “Invisible Filters: Cultural Bias in Hiring Evaluations Using Large Language Models.” AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2025.
  4. Dhruv Awasthi, Pooja S. B. Rao, and Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, “ResumeGenAI: Supporting Job Seekers with LLM-Driven Resume Feedback.” ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2025.
  5. Pooja S. B. Rao, Sanja Šćepanović, Ke Zhou, Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Daniele Quercia, “RiskRAG: A Data-Driven Solution for Improved AI Model Risk Reporting.” ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25) 2025.
  6. Pooja S. B. Rao, Laetitia Renier, Marc-Olivier Boldi, Marianne S. Mast, Dinesh B. Jayagopi and Mauro Cherubini, “On the Potential of Supporting Autonomy in Online Video Interview Training Platforms.” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) 2024.
  7. Kavous S. Niksirat, Lahari Goswami, Pooja S. B. Rao, James Tyler, Alessandro Silacci, Sadiq Aliyu, Annika Aebil, Chat Wacharamanotham, Mauro Cherubini, “Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022.” ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23) 2023. 🏆 Best Paper Award (Top 1%)
  8. Pooja S. B. Rao, Dinesh B. Jayagopi and Mauro Cherubini, “Explainability in Automated Training and Feedback Systems.” ACM CHI Workshop Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI (HCXAI) 2022.
  9. Jinal Hitesh Thakkar, Pooja S. B. Rao, Kumar Shubham, Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Understanding Interviewees’ Perceptions and Behaviour towards Verbally and Non-verbally Expressive Virtual Interviewing Agents.” Companion Publication of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2022.
  10. Vibhav Agarwal, Pooja S. B. Rao, and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Towards Code-Mixed Hinglish Dialogue Generation.” 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI (NLP4ConvAI) held with EMNLP 2021
  11. Pooja S. B. Rao, Manish Agnihotri and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Improving Asynchronous Interview Interaction with Follow-up Question Generation.” International Journal of Interactive Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) 2021.
  12. Pooja S. B. Rao, Manish Agnihotri and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Incorporating Automatic Follow-up Question Generation for Asynchronous Interviews.” Workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation, ECAI, 2020.
  13. Pooja S. B. Rao, Sowmya Rasipuram, Rahul Das, and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Automatic Assessment of Communication Skill in Non-conventional Interview Settings: A Comparative Study.” 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2017
  14. Sowmya Rasipuram, Pooja S. B. Rao, and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Automatic Prediction of Fluency in Interface-Based Interviews.” In India Conference (INDICON) 2016 IEEE
  15. Sowmya Rasipuram, Pooja S. B. Rao, and Dinesh B. Jayagopi, “Asynchronous Video Interviews vs. Face-to-Face Interviews for Communication Skill Measurement: A Systematic Study.” 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2016. 🏆 Nominated for Best Student Paper.