Hye Sun Yun
PhD Candidate, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

Hello! 👋
My name is Hye Sun Yun (ìœ¤í˜œì„ 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 responsible and human-centered AI and applying HCI and NLP research methods to meet the needs, interests, preferences, and requirements of end users. Specifically, my focus is on building and evaluating language technologies to improve access to health and medical research information.
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!
I am currently in the job market for teaching-oriented academic roles.
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Aug 02, 2025 | This fall semester, I will be co-teaching DS 2500 (Intermediate Programming with Data) at Northeastern University alongside Deahan Yu as an instructor of record. |
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Jun 25, 2025 | I will be attending this year’s AHLI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) conference at Berkeley, CA. During the poster session tomorrow (June 26), I will be presenting our paper Caught in the Web of Words: Do LLMs Fall for Spin in Medical Literature?. |
Jun 12, 2025 | Today, I gave a talk on my two most recent research papers (CHI and CHIL) at Wellesley College’s Computer Science Department. |
May 26, 2025 | I will be attending the 2025 CSST Summer Research Institute in the Adirondacks. |
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. |