Meet the Lab!

  • Headshot of Elisa, a white woman in her late twenties with shoulder-long straight blond hair, delicate gold jewelry and large thin-gold glasses. She is smiling into the camera. The background is blurred but greenery and a building is visible.

    Elisa Kreiss
    Lab Director

    Elisa completed her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford. She is broadly interested in the way people and models relate visual and linguistic information. Her work has direct application to building AI systems that can support blind and low-vision accessibility.

  • Headshot of Yingjia, a Chinese woman in her twenties with straight brown hair, wearing a black gown over a black dress. Behind her is a large window overlooking a fountain and grassy area, looking at the camera with a gentle smile.

    Yingjia Alisa Wan
    Graduate Student

    Yingjia’s research interests include verifiable reasoning, multimodality, and responsible generation in foundational models, with a focus on evaluation, inference-time scaling, and post-training alignment.

  • A young man with short black hair, Je Hoon, is smiling at the camera. He is standing outdoors near the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido, Japan, during sunset. He is wearing a dark jacket and appears to be enjoying the scenic moment.

    Je Hoon Chae
    Lab Affiliate

    Je Hoon's current work focuses on (i) misinformation and fact-checking, (ii) the integration of AI to improve the quality of the public information sphere, and (iii) causal inference with noisy variables (e.g., proxy or text-based variables).

  • Head shot of Siyi smiling at the camera. She is an East Asian woman in her mid-twenties with long black hair, wearing a black jacket with sunglasses on top of her head. The blurry building in the background is the Getty Villa museum.

    Siyi Gong
    Lab Affiliate

    Siyi’s research focuses on the socio-cognitive foundations of cooperation, communication, and innovation. Her recent projects examine the communicative mechanisms behind pantomime and investigate the role of social learning in driving communicative innovation.

  • Headshot of Joyce, an East Asian woman in her twenties with long, straight, dark hair, wearing a white shirt. She is smiling into the camera. The background is a blurred grocery store.

    Joyce Yanru Jiang
    Lab Affiliate

    TBA

  • Headshot of Lin, an Asian woman in her twenties with straight black hair and a subtle blonde streak on one side is sitting indoors at a cafe. She has a calm and pleasant expression, with a slight smile on her face.

    Lin Lin
    Lab Affiliate

    Lin’s research examines how nonverbal facial cues contribute to social bias and stereotypes, with particular emphasis on ageism, and how subtle linguistic biases influence cognitive processing. Her work integrates perspectives from communication, social psychology, and computational linguistics.

  • Headshot of Seonhye, an Asian woman with black hair and wispy bangs, smiling gently at the camera. She is wearing a dark brown leather jacket over a cream-colored top. The background shows modern glass architecture.

    Seonhye Noh
    Lab Affiliate

    Seonhye studies how human behavior and algorithms interact on digital platforms. Her research examines media selectivity, digital trace data, and algorithmic influence in news consumption—topics increasingly shaped by AI. She explores how these systems mediate political communication and user engagement.

  • Headshot of Pavel, a white man in his early twenties with curly brown hair covering his forehead. He is smiling into the camera and wearing a white collared shirt. The background is blurred but streetlights and a tree is visible.

    Pavel Savgira
    Lab Affiliate

    Pavel’s research combines humanistic inquiry and computational analysis to examine how large language models summarize popular media. He develops validation methods to identify LLM biases, assess their political stakes, and ways we can address them.