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=== Jonghyun Jee (Northwestern University) ===
[[File:20231028-780e_3x4-min.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonghyun about to utter something he barely understands.]]

Hello! I'm Jonghyun (pronounced Jong-H-<i>yuh</i>-n, not Hyoon), a first-year PhD student in the Media, Technology, and Society program at Northwestern University. I study how online communities create and enforce their rules. My research has taken me through a range of platforms, from established ones like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Discord to decentralized networks such as Bluesky and Mastodon. Lately, I’ve been exploring how to use LLMs to simulate these social environments at scale. I’m driven by the belief that critiques of technology (even dystopian ones) are less calls for its undoing than invitations to reimagine it.

Before joining the CDSC, I majored in Interactive Media Arts from NYU Shanghai with a minor in Philosophy. I exhibited my work as a media artist in both solo and group shows before pivoting to academia. I then completed my MS at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) as part of the inaugural cohort in their Graduate School of Metaverse. There, I built my computational toolkit and found my passion for this field. When I procrastinate, I practice zen meditation and write short film synopses.
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