
Nalin (Fai) Poungpeth
faipoungpeth [at] gmail [dot] com
I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by Professor Sue Fussell.
My research focuses on understanding how LLMs can be used to evaluate and enhance human-AI and human-human communication. I use methods in HCI to design digital experiments, NLP to analyze textual communication, and computational social science to simulate human-AI interactions.
Previously, I worked at the Human-AI Collaboration Lab with Professor Matt Groh and Dr. Aakriti Kumar to reserach how LLM role-playing games can help people improve empathic communication. I also worked with Professor Tanu Mitra and Nicholas Clark through the NSF DUB REU Program to study what persuasive strategies LLMs adopt in multi-turn conversations.