His research has been featured in venues such as The Times, The Guardian, NBC, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Forbes, Wired, TED AI, Science, and Nature. He has been recognized with Best Paper awards at UIST and CHI, the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Terry Winograd Fellowship, and Siebel Scholarship.
Research Experience
Developed generative agents that simulate human-like behaviors in individuals and societies, contributing to the development of generative agent-based simulations as a general testbed for evaluating policies and social scientific theories.
Education
PhD: Stanford University, Computer Science, advised by Professors Michael S. Bernstein and Percy Liang; MS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Computer Science, advised by Professor Karrie Karahalios; BA: Swarthmore College.
Background
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, natural language processing, generative agents, social computing, human-AI interaction. Background: A fifth-year PhD student in computer science at Stanford University, developing AI tools to help reason about important societal decisions.
Miscellany
People call him Joon, pronounced like the sixth month of the year.