📣Hiring! Two opportunities
1. Research internship@MSR AI Interaction and Learning (Current PhD students)
2. Multiple positions in my lab @UTiSchool on LLM Personalization/Human-AI Alignment (Prospective PhD students)
Details in thread below👇
Chan Young Park
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Chan Young Park
@chan_young_park
Current: Postdoc @MSR
Past: Postdoc @uwnlp | PhD @LTIatCMU
Future: Assistant prof @UTiSchool
Always: Study human language and humans using computer language
Joined June 2020
- While I'm on X to share my paper, I also have a life update I'll be joining @UTiSchool as an assistant professor starting Fall 2026! Excited for this next chapter, and to keep working on teaching computers to better understand language and humans (+now teaching humans too)
- Elated to share that I've been named a K&L Gates Presidential Fellow🔥 And..I’m on the academic job market! I tackle problems in the intersection of NLP, AI Ethics, and computational social science. See my website for my CV, research statement, and more chan0park.github.io🧵
- I’m really excited to share that our paper on political biases in NLP models received the Best Paper Award at #ACL2023NLP. We already presented our poster, but don't miss our talk by @shangbinfeng at the Best Paper Award plenary session today at 4pm!Replying to @aclmeetingBest Papers (3/3) 📢S1: Ethics & NLP (Poster) 📌 From Pretraining Data to LMs to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models 🔍Impact of political biases on LMs and downstream NLP tasks🤝 🔗aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.… 🧵(5/5)
- 🚀 Excited to share our #NAACL2025 paper on Language Model Personalization! arxiv.org/abs/2410.16027 Current RLHF methods often overlook *whose* preferences are being optimized. This can cause conflicting signals and models that mainly cater to the “average” or most dominant users
- ⭐️Looking for a PhD Intern⭐️ Join me this summer at MSR to work on personal AI agents! We're developing innovative models to enhance personalized MS Copilot experiences. I'm seeking candidates with strong modeling skills and experience with LLM (multi-)agents/preference learning
- I'm thrilled to share that the work I collaborated on with @anjalie_f , @linnyKos , and Yulia has received an award from the Wikimedia Foundation @Wikimedia ! I'm really happy and honored by the fact that our research is recognized by the actual stakeholders.The first @Wikimedia Research Award Research Award of the Year 2023 goes to @anjalie_f @chan_young_park @linnyKos @tsvetshop for their work "Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios" ⭐️ arxiv.org/abs/2101.00078
- I’m organizing a workshop on Customizable NLP with @shocheen @WeijiaShi2 @vidhisha_b @shirley_ah_, along with our steering committee Yulia, @nlpnoah, @HannaHajishirzi, @david__jurgens, @dongyeopkang If you’re interested, follow this account and join us for the workshop next year!We're excited to announce that our proposal for the first workshop on Customizable NLP has been accepted, and the workshop will take place at EMNLP 2024. Follow this account for updates and more information!
- Our research is featured in MIT Tech Review 🔥🔥 Interviewing with @Melissahei was a blast, and I’m excited that our work is reaching a broader audience beyond academia. We hope this contributes to raising awareness about political biases in LMs!New: Researchers tested 14 large language models and found that each model exhibited a different kind of political bias. trib.al/4BxEDJf
- Replying to @chan_young_parkOn a side note, I will be on the faculty market in Fall 2023! My research aims to bridge the gap between NLP and computational social science, creating language technologies that are more socioculturally aware. If this sounds interesting to you, I’d love to chat and connect 😀
- One of the last projects from my PhD is out! ValueScope🔍 measures implicit norms and values in communities, enabling exciting analyses like how norms evolve and impact user behavior. We hope quantifying social norms will help LLMs become more socially adaptive in the future👨👧👦👩👩👧👧
- If you’re at COLM, don’t miss Stella’s *spotlight* talk on Thursday! Really bummed I can’t make it this year. I was hoping to chat with folks interested in UT Austin iSchool (i’m hiring multiple PhD students!!) and internship opportunities at MSR. More on this very soonI will be at #COLM2025 next week, super excited to explore Montreal!🍁 I've been thinking about personalization, question-asking, multi-turn, RL etc. DM if you want to chat! Catch me at: 📍Poster for ALFA: Tue 1:30pm 💡Spotlight talk for PrefPalette: Thur 10:15am (poster 11am)
- My team at MSR is also hiring both principal and senior researchers!For those AI researchers who have recently (re)entered the job market, just a reminder that our team— AI Interaction and Learning at Microsoft Research Redmond—is currently hiring multiple ML/AI researchers. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…
- Can AI achieve political neutrality? Check out our new position paper! (spoiler: no, it can’t, but there are other ways)AI is politically biased➡️shaping user decisions ⚖️Can political neutrality solve this? We argue in Political Neutrality in AI is Impossible- But Here is How to Approximate it: ❌True neutrality is impossible ✅ Approximations are possible and essential! jfisher52.github.io/papers/politic…
