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 also conducted research with Yulia Tsvetkov and David Jurgens. 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 AI 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 17, 2024 I am applying to Ph.D. programs for Fall 2025. Please reach out if you have any open positions in your lab!
Sep 16, 2024 New Paper Algorithmic Behaviors Across Regions: A Geolocation Audit of YouTube Search for COVID-19 Misinformation between the United States and South Africa! We conduct an algorithmic audit of YouTube Search between a country in the Global North vs. one in the Global South!
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 where we compare covert harms in LLM-generated conversations between race vs. caste!

selected publications

  1. Preprint
    Algorithmic Behaviors Across Regions: A Geolocation Audit of YouTube Search for COVID-19 Misinformation between the United States and South Africa
    Hayoung Jung, Prerna Juneja, and Tanushree Mitra
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  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
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  3. 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
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