Cheonkam Jeong /tʃʌn.kam.dʒʌŋ/
PhD, Linguistics
Postdoctoral Scholar - AI/ML Lead, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University.
I specialize in emotional AI, large language models, and human-robot interaction, with a focus on developing empathetic conversational AI systems for healthcare applications. Currently, I lead research on an emotion-aware caregiving robot designed to alleviate agitation in dementia patients through conversation, while exploring LLM alignment and agentic AI for more reliable and autonomous care interactions.
My research leverages computational linguistics, speech processing, and statistical modeling to advance human-centered AI. I focus on unraveling the interplay between prosody and emotion in human-machine interactions while prioritizing the development of safe, aligned autonomous AI systems. I am particularly interested in neuro-symbolic reasoning, multimodal dataset creation, and building robust frameworks for evaluating AI systems in real-world healthcare contexts.
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