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Research position

Undergraduate Researcher

Social Cognitive AI (SCAI) Lab · Johns Hopkins University

Dates
Mar 2024 – Present
Advisor
Prof. Tianmin Shu
Lab
scai.cs.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University

Overview

SCAI builds human-centered AI by engineering machine social intelligence: systems that understand, reason about, and interact with people in real-world settings.

Embodied AIComputational Social CognitionMachine Learning

Timeline

  1. Mar 2024Joined SCAI

    Undergraduate researcher with Prof. Tianmin Shu.

  2. 2026ThoughtTrace

    Built evaluation pipelines and ran experiments comparing model-predicted user thoughts with human annotations.

  3. 2026Best Paper Award, ICML 2026 RLxF Workshop

    For the ThoughtTrace paper.

  4. PresentResearch infrastructure

    Building experimental platforms for ongoing lab projects.

Featured project

ThoughtTrace example: a conversation with the user's annotated reasons and reactions
Best Paper · RLxF @ ICML 2026

ThoughtTrace

A large-scale dataset pairing real-world human–AI conversations with the thoughts users had behind each turn.

1,058 users2,155 conversations10,174 thoughts
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