Hye Sun Yun
(she/her/hers)
PhD Student
Research interests
- Human–computer interaction
- Natural language processing
- Artificial intelligence
Education
- BA in Computer Science and Africana Studies, Wellesley College
Biography
Hye Sun Yun is a doctoral student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Timothy Bickmore and Byron Wallace. Her research, which she began in 2020 and expects to complete in 2026, focuses on human–computer interaction and natural language processing.
Yun was born in South Korea and lives in the United States, but came by way of South Africa and Botswana, and majored in Africana Studies as well as computer science. She is currently working on finding safe and responsible ways for consumers to use large language models to access health information. Yun is affiliated with the Relational Agents Group and the Natural Language Processing Research Group.
Recent publications
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Framing Health Information: The Impact of Search Methods and Source Types on User Trust and Satisfaction in the Age of LLMs
Citation: Hye Sun Yun, Timothy W. Bickmore. (2025). Framing Health Information: The Impact of Search Methods and Source Types on User Trust and Satisfaction in the Age of LLMs CHI Extended Abstracts, 286:1-286:7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720239 -
Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session
Citation: Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Hye Sun Yun, Timothy W. Bickmore. (2024). Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session CoRR, abs/2407.06123. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.06123
