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 Social Computing, Algorithmic Audits, AI Ethics, Computational Social Science, and NLP.

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

My research focuses on advancing inclusive AI technologies and online platforms to better serve people who are overlooked in the development of these systems. Driven by my interdisciplinary background, I develop technical frameworks and methods grounded in social science theories, with two main goals:

  1. Auditing AI technologies and online platforms for bias and misinformation to build a more responsible socio-technical future.
  2. Understanding social phenomena, such as community norms, through language and online behavior to promote socially-attuned and equitable technologies.

news

Nov 16, 2024 New paper on examining the prevalence of myths on opioid use disorder within Reddit and LLM-generated responses. Accepted at ICWSM 2025!
Nov 16, 2024 New paper on auditing YouTube Search for COVID-19 misinformation between a country in the Global North vs. in the Global South! Accepted at ICWSM 2025!
Nov 11, 2024 Attending my first conference, EMNLP 2024 in Miami, where I will be presenting an oral presentation and a poster presentation.
Jul 06, 2024 New paper where we propose a framework grounded in social science theory to measure online community norms and values! Accepted at EMNLP Findings 2024!
Apr 12, 2024 New paper on unveiling covert harms in LLM-generated conversations between race & caste! Accepted at EMNLP 2024, nominated for Best Paper, and featured on UW News!

selected publications

  1. ICWSM
    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
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)., 2025
  2. ICWSM
    Online Myths on Opioid Use Disorder: A Comparison of Reddit and Large Language Model
    Shravika Mittal, Hayoung Jung, Mai ElSherief, Tanushree Mitra, and Munmun De Choudhury
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)., 2025
  3. EMNLP
    ValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactions
    Chan Young Park*, Shuyue Stella Li*Hayoung Jung*, Svitlana Volkova, Tanu Mitra, David Jurgens, and Yulia Tsvetkov
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, Nov 2024
  4. EMNLP
    “They are uncultured”: Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations
    Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu*Hayoung Jung*, Anjali Singh, Monojit Choudhury, and Tanu Mitra
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2024 – Nominated for the Best Paper Award