Hayoung Jung

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I am a M.S. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Tanushree Mitra. My research interest are NLP, AI Ethics, and Computational Social Science.

As a graduate student, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research with Yulia Tsvetkov, David Jurgens, and Monojit Choudhury. Previously, I received undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Political Science from the University of Washington.

research interests

Broadly, my research interests revolve around advancing language technologies to better serve diverse populations. Specifically:

  • AI Ethics: Evaluating how NLP models and AI-powered services, such as search engines, can propagate harms and misinformation, particularly affecting marginalized populations.
  • Computational Social Science: Leveraging NLP techniques in conjunction with social science theories for a deeper understanding of diverse populations, communities, and culture.

news

Sep 03, 2024 I am applying to Ph.D. programs for Fall 2025. Please reach out if you have any open positions in your lab!
Aug 30, 2024 Completed my software engineering internship at F5 Rapid Development Team.
Jul 06, 2024 Check out our new paper ValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactions where we propose a framework grounded in social science theory to measure online community norms!
Apr 12, 2024 Check out our new paper “They are uncultured”: Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations. We examine covert harms in LLM-generated conversations within hiring contexts, comparing non-Western concepts like caste to Western concepts like race.
Sep 25, 2023 Started my M.S. at UW CSE as part of the combined BS/MS program! Excited to do more research 🔬!

selected publications

  1. Preprint
    "They are uncultured": Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations
    Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu*Hayoung Jung*, Anjali Singh, Monojit Choudhury, and Tanushree Mitra
  2. Preprint
    ValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactions
    Chan Young Park*, Shuyue Stella Li*Hayoung Jung*, Svitlana Volkova, Tanushree Mitra, David Jurgens, and Yulia Tsvetkov