Soyeon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also holds an A.M. in Statistics and Data Science. Her research sits at the intersection of political behavior, computational methodology, and democratic resilience. She studies how citizens reason about democratic institutions and the conditions that allow that reasoning to withstand partisan pressure, and she builds and tests deliberative AI tools to strengthen citizens’ commitment to constitutional norms. Her broader methodological work examines bias in LLMs and VLMs, cross-lingual transfer for political text analysis, and LLM-assisted measurement in the social sciences.
Soyeon grew up in South Korea, where watching citizens mobilize to defend democratic institutions first sparked her curiosity about what makes ordinary people willing to stand up for principles over partisan interests. That question has shaped her research ever since. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in ‘Political Economy and Philosophy ‘and ‘Business Administration.’
Outside of research, Soyeon is teaching herself to cook with mixed but increasingly edible results, and she is determined to learn how to play the drums someday. If you could teach her, she would very much like to hear from you. She also enjoys watching videos of small animals doing unremarkable things, and genuinely loves hearing about what other people are working on.
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