The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Sooyeon Jeong

Sooyeon Jeong

Title

Assistant Teaching Professor 

Department

Email

sooyeonj@purdue.edu 

URL

https://www.sooyeonjeong.com 

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Arts and Sciences (2022)
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Arts and Sciences (2017)
M.Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2014)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2014)  

Research Areas

Robotics and Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction  

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=obVs9ZAAAAAJ&hl=en 

Biography

Sooyeon Jeong is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. Her research focuses on designing and deploying interactive AI agents that can improve people's lives by providing personalized support based on each user's needs, traits, and behaviors. She deploys these agents "in-the-wild" to evaluate how they build relationships/rapport with people over time and improve their wellbeing, health and learning. She aims to build relational technologies to be more than just tools and become helpful companions for people by continuously adapting themselves to help users achieve their health goals.