Hye Sun Yun
(she/her/hers)
PhD Student
- Human–computer interaction
- Natural language processing
- Artificial intelligence
- BA in Computer Science and Africana Studies, Wellesley College
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.