I am a fifth-year PhD student in computer science at Stanford University advised by Professors
Michael S. Bernstein
Michael is an associate professor at Stanford University. and
Percy Liang
Percy is an associate professor at Stanford University.. Previously, I earned my MS in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Professor
Karrie Karahalios
Karrie is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)., and BA at Swarthmore College.
In my work, I develop AI tools that can help us reason about important societal decisions. This work introduced generative agents that simulate human-like behaviors in individuals and societies and contributed to the development of generative agent-based simulations as a general testbed for evaluating policies and social scientific theories. My 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. I have been recognized with Best Paper awards at UIST and CHI, the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Terry Winograd Fellowship, and Siebel Scholarship.
People call me Joon, pronounced like the sixth month of the year.