Hye Sun Yun

PhD Candidate, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

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Hello! 👋

My name is Hye Sun Yun (윀혜선 in Korean).

I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. I work on Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), mainly on applications in health. I am co-advised by Timothy Bickmore and Byron Wallace. I am interested in human-centered AI and applying HCI and NLP research methods to meet the needs, interests, preferences, and requirements of end users. I love collaborating with diverse domain experts in multi/interdisciplinary projects tackling real-world problems.

Before starting my PhD in fall of 2020, I worked as a full-stack software engineer/manager for three years at Wayfair. I earned my bachelor’s in Computer Science and Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

I love playing Ultimate Frisbee, running, cooking, and baking. A couple of years ago I completed Reddit’s 52 weeks of cooking challenge. You can read all about my cooking adventures in my cooking blog.

If you are interested in knowing more about my research or want to chat about CS PhD application process, please feel free to email me!

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Apr 16, 2025 Our paper Caught in the Web of Words: Do LLMs Fall for Spin in Medical Literature? has been accepted at AHLI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2025 conference.
Apr 08, 2025 I will be giving a remote research talk titled “Beyond Hallucinations: Unveiling Hidden Dangers of LLMs in Health Information Access” at Clemson University’s School of Computing Seminar on April 18, 2025 (2:30-3:30 pm). The slides for the talk can be accessed here.
Mar 31, 2025 Our paper Online Health Information–Seeking in the Era of Large Language Models: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey Study is finally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)!
Mar 29, 2025 Framing Health Information: The Impact of Search Methods and Source Types on User Trust and Satisfaction in the Age of LLMs has been accepted as Late Breaking Work in CHI 2025! See you in Japan soon.
Jan 04, 2025 This spring I am the Instructor of Record for a special topics course — Research in Human-Centered NLP (CS4973/CS6983) — at Northeastern.