The WAICI 2026 Junior Faculty Consortium met on Thursday, October 1, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at NYU Stern (Abbe-Bogen Faculty Lounge, KMC 11-185, and Cantor Boardroom, 11th Floor), ahead of the main workshop. Participation was by invitation. Participants presented a paper and discussed their career vision and impact statement with mentors and peers.
Invited Participants and Their Papers
- Measuring Strategization in Recommendation: Users Adapt Their Behavior to Shape Future Content
- Opening the Black Box of Human-AI Innovation: Generation, Selection, and the Role of Teams
- Less Traffic, More Attention? A Field Experiment on Publisher AI Summaries
- Multimodal AI Feedback Improves Teaching Quality and Student Engagement Nationwide But Unevenly
- AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare
- Encouraging Online Content Contributions with Peer Recognition and Platform Rewards: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Model
- AI Algorithms and Collusion in Ad Auctions
- Attunement Costs: How Interaction Locks Users into Specific LLMs
- The Price of Misreporting: Measuring the Effect of Strategic Behavior in Online Platforms
- Generative AI in Low-Resource Classrooms
- When Social AI Agents Help or Hurt: Dual Agency and Goal Incongruence in Influencer Platforms
- From Build to Learn: How Generative AI Reshapes Product Experimentation
- Can Explanations Improve Recommendations? Evidence from Prediction-Informed Explanations
- Governing Human Judgment for Calibrated Reliance in Human-AI Collaboration: An Assemblage Perspective
- Latent Communication in Adversarial Negotiation: Structural Alignment, Not Content Transmission
See the full WAICI 2026 program.