John Joon Young Chung

Done at Midjourney Storytelling Lab / a collaboration with @vishakh_pk, @melissa_roem, @cheesetalk1997, and @maxkreminski

Will present a poster at #COLM2025 on post-training for language model diversification Wednesday 11am! Modifying Large Language Model Post-Training for Diverse Creative Writing: openreview.net/pdf?id=1Pmuw08…

@sangho_suh @allen_ai Congrats!

🎉 Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Allen Institute for AI (@allen_ai) as a 🔬 Research Scientist this 🗓️ September ! 🙏 Many thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and friends for their support and 👋 looking forward to meeting old and new friends in ⛰️ Seattle!

@jayhersk @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS Congratulations!

I’m so happy to share that I’ll be joining @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! 🥳 I’ll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle, so keep an eye out for more info if you’re interested in accessibility, AI, and HCI! (1/2)

@huashen218 @nyushanghai @nyutandon @nyuniversity Congratulations!

✨Personal Milestone✨ Thrilled to share I’ll be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at NYU Shanghai, affiliated with NYU Tandon, starting Fall 2025! 😊🌏@nyushanghai, @nyutandon, @nyuniversity 🧠I’ll be recruiting students via NYU Courant CS & NYU Tandon CSE working at NYC, Shanghai, or more—welcome to join us in exploring 👫-🤖human-AI alignment & interaction! → Research overview and openings on: hua-shen.org 🛩️ Heading to #ICLR2025 & #CHI2025 – love to grab a coffee together☕️👭! - I’ll be at #ICLR (4/26–4/28) — at OpenAI event on 4/26 + organizing our #BiAlign workshop on 4/28. - Then off to #CHI (4/29), hosting two sessions (writing support, human-agent collaboration) + supporting our 🔎🤖 #PromptAuditor paper. Let’s chat at #ICLR & #CHI!🤗 💗Deepest thanks to my incredible advisors @tanmit @windx0303 and committee @tongshuangwu @mbrosson —for your unwavering support through the ups and downs of my job search. I’m so grateful to the many amazing professors and friends who offered invaluable feedback and encouragement during my job preparation💕🙏! 💗I’ve been especially lucky to spend this year at @UW_iSchool and @uwresponsibleai, learning from an excellent community of faculty and students! And to brilliant collaborators in our 👫-🤖"Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment" research, all the amazing professors and students at @umsi @michigan_AI, @ISTatPENNSTATE, my intern mentors in @GoogleDeepMind and @AmazonAGI — thank you for shaping my growth and wonderful journey🙏! 💗Too many names to tag – I carry your generosity and kindness, and will do my best to pay it back and forward 💜🚀💜!

This is a joint work with @melissa_roem and @maxkreminski. I was glad to build upon a dataset that Melissa collected in 2016! (9/9) Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2501.13284

Please read the paper if you want to learn more - but we hope that this work will inspire future HCI+AI researchers to develop unprecedented types of interactions with AI, with technical contributions to realize such interactions. (8/9)

#CHI2025 paper from Midjourney Storytelling Lab 🫱🧸 🦖🫲What if we can tell a story by playing with toys? 🫱🧸 🦖🤖What if we can collaborate with AI on toy-playing+storytelling? Toyteller enables toy-playing-based storytelling with AI. Learn more: mj-storytelling.github.io/project/toytel… (1/9)

@roryzzhang @yunyao_li @AdobeExpCloud Congrats! Look forward to seeing your next things there!

Excited to share that I’m joining Adobe as an Applied Scientist on the GenAI team led by @yunyao_li! Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and enhancing the user experience of our AI assistant of @AdobeExpCloud

The always-amazing #In2Writng workshop will be at #NAACL2025 @naaclmeeting this time! #NLProc #HCI Paper deadline: Feb 28, 2025, AoE (no extensions!) Come submit your cool work! More: in2writing.glitch.me

@jeonhyeon11 @SeoulNatlUni @ieeevis @GoogleAI Congrats!

Thrilled to receive the Google PhD Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization!! Special thanks to my advisor, Jinwook, wonderful collaborators, @SeoulNatlUni, and @ieeevis community for providing me unlimited support!! Also appreciate @GoogleAI for the honor!!

📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 as I begin my journey as an assistant professor at @NJIT in Jan 2025. Our lab aims to explore the future of intelligent creation tools for AR/VR. 💫 Details about my advising philosophy and research vision: raynez.art/join-us/

Our #In2Writing workshop was assigned to #NAACL2025--which we explicitly said we couldn't b/c all organizers will be at CHI--and we were advised to find workshops at EMNLP/ACL open to swapping with us. So...now you know a topic to talk to me about that isn't LLM at #EMNLP2024!

Help us plan our roadmap over the next 12 months. Submit your ideas here: tally.so/r/mV1bgj and we'll pool your thoughts together with our own and then put up a voting board to get a sense of what everyone would find most valuable. Thank you!