Scholar
Kai Chen
Google Scholar ID: ErRPAGgAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
70
H-index
4
i10-index
3
Publications
6
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- “STEER-BENCH: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Steerability of Large Language Models”, EMNLP 2025 (first author)
- “How Susceptible are Large Language Models to Ideological Manipulation?”, SeT LLM @ ICLR 2024 (Best Paper Runner-up), EMNLP 2024 (first author)
- “Safer-instruct: Aligning language models with automated preference data”, NAACL 2024 (second author)
- “IsamasRed: A Public Dataset Tracking Reddit Discussions on Israel-Hamas Conflict”, ICWSM 2024 (first author)
- “Large Language Models Reveal Information Operation Goals, Tactics, and Narrative Frames”, CySoc @ ICWSM 2024 (second author)
- “Anger Breeds Controversy: Analyzing Controversy and Emotions on Reddit”, SBP-BRiMS 2023 (first author)
- Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (2024–2025), ICWSM (2024–2025), COLING (2024)
Background
- PhD candidate at University of Southern California (USC), working at the Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI)
- Member of CUTE LAB and the SEA Lab
- Advised by Prof. Jonathan May and Prof. Kristina Lerman
- Research interests center on natural language processing and computational social science
- Specifically interested in alignment, data synthesis, and large language model (LLM) agents
- Recently focused on agent memory and reinforcement learning for long-horizon tasks
