Soya Park

Postdoc researcher at Emory University, advised by Prof. Chinmay Kulkarni.
I’m passionate about creating systems designed to empower 🧑🔬scientists🔬 to engage in social interaction. Social interactions are vital for scientists, fostering collaboration, networking, and career growth, while shaping personal and professional trajectories through impactful research opportunities and mentorships. My focus is building and applying AI models for facilitating their social interaction. Over 1000 scientists engage in social interaction on my platforms. I received an IBM PhD fellowship and a Kwanjeong fellowship.
Publications

Under review
Self-Playing LLM Interface for Self-improving and User Understanding
Under review
Thinking Assistants: LLM-Based Conversational Assistants that Help Users Think By Asking rather than Answering
Soya Park, Hari Subramonyam, Chinmay Kulkarni

CSCW '24
Who2chat: A Social Networking System for Academic Researchers in Virtual Social Hours Enabling Coordinating, Overcoming Barriers and Social Signaling
Soya Park, Jaeyoon Song, David Karger, Thomas Malone

TOCHI '24
"I really need your help with this work..": A System for Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Managing Up by Leveraging One’s Motivation to Get Things Done
Soya Park, Stuti Vishwabhan, Michael Muller, David Karger

GROUP '24
"How fancy you are to make us use your fancy tool": Coordinating Individuals' Tool Preference over Group Boundaries
Queenie Zhang, Soya Park, Michael Muller, David Karger

CSCW '23
Retrospector: Rapid collaborative reflection to improve collaborative practices
Soya Park, Chinmay Kulkarni

Interactions
The Future of Conferences Is Unconferences: Exploring a Decentralized Network of Regional Meetups
Soya Park, Eun-Jeong Kang, Karen Joy, Rosanna Bellini, Jérémie Lumbroso, Danaë Metaxa, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
CSCW '22
Exploring Team-Sourced Hyperlinks to Address Navigation Challenges for Low-Vision Readers of Scientific Papers
Soya Park, Jonathan Bragg, Michael Chang, Kevin Larson, Danielle Bragg

CSCW '21
How AI Developers Overcome Communication Challenges in a Multidisciplinary Team: A Case Study
David Piorkowski, Soya Park, April Wang, Dakuo Wang, Michael Muller, Felix Portnoy
IUI '21
Facilitating knowledge sharing from domain experts to data scientists for building NLP models
Soya Park, April Wang, Ban Kawas, Vera Liao, David Piorkowski, Marina Danilevsky
CHI '19
Opportunities for Automating Email Processing: A Need-Finding Study
Soya Park, Amy Zhang, Luke Murray, David Karger

UIST '18
Post-literate Programming: Linking Discussion and Code in Software Development Teams
Soya Park, Amy Zhang, David Karger