In further detail
Mission.
The mission of Hswen lab is to advance the development of AI-systems in public health and medicine.
Research.
Hswen lab conducts research with artificial intelligence and machine learning to garner and reveal meaningful social signals about the future of society.
Publications.
Google Scholar: Yulin Hswen
About
Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, BS
Dr. Yulin Hswen earned her doctorate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she specialized in computational epidemiology. Her research focuses on how digital narratives spread, influence behavior, and shape population health outcomes. Using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large scale social and multimodal data, she studies how health information, misinformation, and algorithmically amplified content propagate through online environments and affect decision making, risk perception, and public discourse. A central theme of her work is examining social media as a vector for social influence and social engineering, including how platforms and AI systems shape collective beliefs and behaviors.
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Methodologically, Dr. Hswen applies natural language processing, generative AI to analyze emotion, sentiment, narrative framing, and cognitive reliance on AI systems. Her work also addresses ethical risks such as cognitive complacency, automation driven amplification, and the limits of AI interpretation in healthcare and public health settings. She applies these approaches to public health surveillance, including monitoring emerging health threats, illicit markets, and digital misinformation, with an emphasis on ensuring AI augments rather than replaces human judgment. Her research challenges assumptions of algorithmic objectivity and advances responsible, accountable AI for population health.
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Dr. Hswen is also an Associate Editor at JAMA and JAMA+ AI, where she curates and oversees scholarship at the intersection of artificial intelligence, medicine, and population health. She also hosts JAMA+ AI Conversations, translating emerging AI research for clinicians, researchers, and the public.
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Personal interests: Collectionneur de montres, 18th-19th century French and Italian Art, and Crystal.
Activities: Strategic surprises, extraordinary excursions, finessing forums, wandering walks, Drawn-out dinners, and lingering laydowns.
Where to find her: Quiet hallways and dusty sunlight
Previous life: Actress - Commercial, Movies, Television https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1840526/
Languages: English (Written: British), French (Fluent), Punjabi
