Fai Poungpeth

Nalin (Fai) Poungpeth

faipoungpeth [at] gmail [dot] com

Hi, I'm Fai!

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.


Recent News

Dec 2025 Received Honorable Mention for the 2025–2026 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Oct 2025 Presented Emergent Persuasive Techniques in LLMs at the UW × Amazon Responsible AI Systems and Experiences Exposition 2025