Summary
Eun-Young Ko is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at KAIST with nine years of experience studying human-computer interaction and social computing. She designs and prototypes interactive systems that enhance discourse, collaboration, and information literacy in online communities, crowdsourcing, civic engagement, and news consumption. Her recent work includes tools for scaffolding readers’ evaluation of health news and methods for capturing nuanced reactions to comments, with papers accepted to ICLS and WWW. Grounded in a mathematics undergraduate background, she blends rigorous analytical thinking with user-centered design to tackle misinformation and improve collective sensemaking. Notably, she balances long-term academic research with hands-on system building, making her work both empirically grounded and practically deployable.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology