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Kai Chen (陈凯)

I am a second-year PhD student at University of Southern California(USC), where I work at the Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI). I am part of the SEA Lab and advised by Prof Kristina Lerman. My research interest mainly revolves around computational social science and natural language processing. Specifically, I am interested in alignment, data synthesis, and societal impacts of large language models (LLMs). Recently, I have been studying ideological manipulation in LLMs. I also use LLM to understand the influence campaign in online social media.

Email: kchen035 AT usc.edu; kchen AT isi.edu

Education

  • Aug. 2023 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California
    Advisor: Prof. Kristina Lerman
  • Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2022
    M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California
    Advisor: Prof. Kristina Lerman; Prof. Jonathan May
  • Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
    B.E. in Software Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology

Publications

(*: equal contribution)

Teaching

Professional Service

    Reviewer:
    ARR (2024), COLING (2024), ICWSM (2024)

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