Education

Ph.D. in Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, United States. 2023-now

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 2022-2023

Master of Information Systems, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 2020-2022

Bachelor of Computer Science & Technology, Central South University, China. 2014-2018

Contact: Google Scholar / LinkedIn Page  / X (former Twitter) Gmail [fhuang181@gmail.com]

Research Publications:

2025

Weihong Qi, Fan Huang, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak. Is DeepSeek a New Voice Among LLMs in Public Opinion Simulation. arXiv.

Lake Yin, Fan Huang. Dif: A framework for benchmarking and verifying implicit bias in LLMs. arXiv.

Ozgur Can Seckin, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Bao Tran Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Fan Huang, Nick Liu, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer. The Rise of Bluesky. arXiv.

2024

Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An. Token-Ensemble Text Generation: On Attacking the Automatic AI-Generated Text Detection. arXiv.

Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Kunwoo Park, Jisun An. ChatGPT Rates Like Human: Towards a Better Alignment of Text Explanation Quality Assessments. LREC-COLING (accepted).

2023: 

Shaoyi Liaw, Fan Huang, Fabricio Benevenuto, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An. YouNICon: YouTube's CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos. ICWSM Dataset.

Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An. Is ChatGPT better than Human Annotators? Potential and Limitations of ChatGPT in Explaining Implicit Hate Speech. The Web Conference (short paper).

Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An. Chain of Explanation: New Prompting Method to Generate Higher Quality Natural Language Explanation for Implicit Hate Speech. The Web Conference (short paper).

Before 2023:

Highlight Timestamp Detection Model for Comedy Videos via Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. arXiv.

 (URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00451)

Network Activities Recognition and Analysis Based on Supervised Machine Learning Classification Methods Using J48 and Naïve Bayes Algorithm. arXiv.

 (URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13698)

Teaching Experience

TA, INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models. 2025 Spring semester, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington.

Public Service

Conference Review

ICWSM 2026, reviewer

IMX 2025 (The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences), reviewer

6th CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2025, PC member

ACL Rolling Review 2025, reviewer

WebSci 2025, PC member

CHI 2025, reviewer

ICWSM 2025, reviewer

IDC 2025, reviewer

WSDM 2022, reviewer

Journal Review

PeerJ Computer Science (2025), reviewer

Online Social Networks and Media (2024, 2025), reviewer

Information Processing & Management (2024), reviewer

Organization/Volunteer

LLM Innovators Hub @ Soda Lab, organizer, Since Oct-2024

CNetS @ Luddy School Gathering Event, organizer, Aug-2023~Oct-2024

ISSI 2023, student volunteer

Talk & Workshop

Oral presentation at MSLD 2024 (Ann Arbor, Michigan), on the paper 'ChatGPT Rates Like Human: Towards a Better Alignment of Text Explanation Quality Assessments'.

Talk 'Natural Language Explanation: From XAI to Human-AI Interaction,' 2023, YY Group, CNetS, Indiana University Bloomington.

Poster presentation at WWW 2023 (Austin, Texas) on the paper 'Is ChatGPT better than Human Annotators? Potential and Limitations of ChatGPT in Explaining Implicit Hate Speech' and paper 'Chain of Explanation: New Prompting Method to Generate Higher Quality Natural Language Explanation for Implicit Hate Speech'.

Participants of SICSS (Summer Institute of Computational Social Science), 2022, NUS, Singapore.

Co-organizer of Workshop "Introduction to NLP", @IEEE NTU Student Branch, OCT-2021, NTU, Singapore.