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 at 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 2025, 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. This makes her current project—developing a virtual agent app to promote health in predominantly African American church communities—all the more fitting. Yun is also working to find scalable, reliable, and factual methods to update reviews or summaries of randomized clinical trials when new trials are published.
Yun is a member of Khoury College’s PhD Women Group and the Accountable Reading Group, and is affiliated with the Relational Agents Group and the Natural Language Processing Research Group.
