Assem Zhunis
📍Currently live in Hong Kong
📍Currently live in Hong Kong
Hey! I am a Ph.D. student at HKUST supervised by Professor Xiaojuan Ma in Hong Kong.
I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degrees of Computer Science at KAIST, South Korea. I was supervised by Professor Meeyoung (Mia) Cha at the IBS Data Science Group.
I study AI/ML for mental health and well-being. My research interests include HAI, Computational Social Science, Social Media Networks, and Chatbots.
Privacy disclosure to large language models: A large-scale study on awareness, benefits, and concerns in health contexts across three countries Computers in Human Behavior Reports (2025)
Social dimensions impact individual sleep quantity and quality Sci Rep 13, 9681 (2023)
Emotion Bubbles: Changes in emotional expressions upon a collective distress
TheWebConf, Lion, France (2022)
On the Social-Relational Moral Standing of AI: An Empirical Study Using AI-Generated Art Frontiers in Robotics (2021)
Behaviors and Perceptions of Human-Chatbot Interactions Based on Top Active Users of a Commercial Social Chatbot CSCW, San Jose, Costa Rica (2024)
Simulation of COVID-19 with Probabilistic Programming Frontiers in Public Health (2022)