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Sohyeon Park

PhD candidate | Google Fellow
University of California, Irvine

I am a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine and a Google 2025 PhD Fellowship recipient working with Dr. Gillian Hayes. My research focuses on Human Computer Interaction, Responsible AI, and Accessibility. Currently, I am actively engaged in these research areas:

  1. Exploring the underlying biases in LLMs about people with disabilities
  2. Understanding the use and effect of games among neurodivergent populations

Selected Publications

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Exploring Implicit Perspectives on Autism in Large Language Models Through Multi-Agent Simulations

Sohyeon Park, Armando Beltran, Aehong Min, Anamara Ritt-Olson, Gillian R. Hayes

arXiv

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Understanding the Perspectives of Autistic Gamers through an Online Autistic Community and a Survey

Sohyeon Park, Aehong Min, Anne Marie Piper, Gillian R. Hayes

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

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"As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs

Sohyeon Park, Aehong Min, Armando Beltran, Gillian R. Hayes

2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)

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