"The best way to predict the future is to create it" - P. Drucker & A. Lincoln
Welcome to Hswen Lab, where we pursue the development of fair and unbiased AI systems that are sensitive and respectful to individual differences and diversities.
About
Dr. Yulin Hswen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Bakar Computational Health Institute at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Hswen is a Harvard-trained computational epidemiology, where she received her Doctorate from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Hswen’s current research is at the intersection between the digital environment and society, where she focuses on using new artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to uncover social patterns of disease and to develop unbiased and fair systems of health.
Dr. Hswen's recent focus lies in exploring the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to imitate human attributes - delving into the ability to replace communication. Will AI supplant humans, and be able to replace and replicate emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger or disgust? Dr. Hswen seeks to unravel the ethical questions surrounding AI's ability to interpret and form empathy while also simultaneously mimicking or evaluating disgust and discrimination. Dr. Hswen delves into the capacity of new generative AI tools to exhibit empathy and accurately detect negative emotions and treatment towards patients, juxtaposed against human assessment. Dr. Hswen investigates innovative evaluation methodologies, encompassing human manual curation and traditional AI sentiment analysis tools, to discern the proficiency of large language models in comprehending communication nuances and emotional cues. Furthermore, Dr. Hswen is concerned with the implications of a potential conflict between AI advancement and the preservation of humanity and its cultural fabric. This exploration includes investigations into cognitive complacency and automatic biases that may emerge if society overly relies on AI, potentially leading to a diminishment of diversity and the erosion of the creativity and innovation. Dr. Hswen is actively involved in conceptualizing and conducting novel empirical studies aimed at elucidating these ethical debates and emerging philosophies.
Personal interests include 18th and 19th-century art and crystal and modern-day horology.
In further detail
Mission
The Mission of Hswen lab is to advance the development of fair and unbiased 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.
We aim to foster inclusivity and equity by developing AI-tools that are sensitive to, respective of, and account for individual differences.