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Description:

Yoon Kyung Lee

Education:
  • Visiting PhD Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, 2023-2024
  • Ph.D. Cand. in Cognitive Psychology (Minor: Quantitative Psychology), Seoul National University
  • M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, Seoul National University
  • B.S. in Psychology, The University of Iowa
Professional Experiences:
  • Social Science/Humanities Research Professional, University of Texas at Austin, 2023-2024
  • Lecturer, Samsung Design and Art Institute (SADI), June 2022-Sept 2022
  • Reviewer, Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2022-2023; Korean J of Cog. Sci. 2023
  • Python Instructor, Self-Paced Learning & Tutoring (SPLIT) Program, Dept. of Engineering, SNU, Spring 2019
  • Instructor, Faculty IT Education Program, Ajou University, March 2019
  • Teaching Assistant, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, Korean Mass Open Online (K-MOOC), 2019-2023
Research Interests

Yoon Kyung’s research focus is on the development and application of empathetic AI, specifically in the domains of social robots, healthcare, and AI. She uses computational methods (deep learning, NLP, and machine learning) and quantitative methods. Her work has been published in several venues, including CogSci, IEEE IROS, and AAAI HCOMP.

Topics: Empathy, Human-AI Interaction, Healthcare, Social and Emotional Intelligence, Computational Modeling, AI, Machine Theory-of-Mind

Community Engagement:

Yoon Kyung has organized local meetups for CogSci in 2022 in Seoul [link]. She has also organized various workshops and a journal club within HFPsych Lab (e.g., Journal Club, Programming Workshops, and “Applied Cognition(AppCog)” Seminars).

Personal Interests:

Yoon Kyung enjoys traveling, learning new languages, and appreciating art and design.

Recent Works:

- Lee, YK , Park, Y., & Hahn, S. A Portrait of Emotion: Empowering Self-Expression through AI-Generated Art. CogSci 2023.
- Lee, YK*, Cho, W.I., Bae, S., Choi, HW., Park, J.S., Kim, N.S., & Hahn, S. (2022). “Feels Like I’ve Known You Forever”: Empathy and Self-Awareness in Human Open-Domain Dialogs. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2022.. [pdf]
- Lee, YK., Rhee, YE., Ryu, J., & Hahn, S. (2020). Gentlemen on the Road: Understanding How Pedestrians Interpret Yielding Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles using Machine Learning arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07872. [pdf]
- Lee, YK., Lee, I., Park, J. E., Jung, Y., Kim, J., & Hahn, S. (2021). A Computational Approach to Measure Empathy and Theory-of-Mind from Written Texts. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11810. [pdf]
- Lee, YK., Jung, Y., Lee, I., Park, J. E., & Hahn, S. (2021). Building a Psychological Ground Truth Dataset with Empathy and Theory-of-Mind During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2021. [pdf]
- Kim, K. & Lee, YK*, Ahn, H., Hahn, S., & Song, O. (2020). Pedestrian Intention Prediction for Autonomous Driving Using a Multiple Stakeholder Perspective Model. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). [pdf]
- Cho, WI*, Lee, YK*, Bae, S., Kim, J.H., Park, S.A., Kim, M.S., Hahn, S., Kim, N. (2022). When Crowd Meets Persona: Creating a Large-Scale Open-Domain Persona Dialogue Corpus. 2022 Tenth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (Work-in-Progress Track).. [pdf]
- Hong, J.H., Gu, J., Lee, YK., & Hahn, S. (2022). Fishing Free-Riders using Altruism: Zero-Sum Fitness Competition in Prey-Predator System. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2022. [pdf]
- Jung, YW., Lee, YK., & Hahn, S. (2021). Web-scraping the Expression of Loneliness during COVID-19. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2021. [pdf]
*Equal Contributions

Visit Yoon Kyung's Google Scholar Page for the most up-to-date list of publications.

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