Welcome to Yoonwon Jung’s Webpage!

I am a Cognitive Science Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, advised by Dr. Benjamin Bergen (Language and Cognition lab) I completed my B.A. in Psychology (Summa Cum Laude, Departmental First-Class Distinction) and M.A. in Cognitive Psychology (advised by Dr. Sowon Hahn) at Seoul National University.

My research focuses on the relationship between language and emotion. I combine behavioral experiments with methods from computational linguistics to investigate how emotion concepts vary across languages and their downstream consequences.

Previously, I studied emotion and social cognition using NLP and also in the context of human–robot interaction.

Access my google scholar profile, or my recent CV.

News

Jul 10, 2026	Presented a paper at Affective Computing Preconference at SAS2026, and at CoNLL 2026! Discovering Lexical Gaps Using Embeddings from Multilingual LLMs (ACL Anthology)
Jun 16, 2026	Honored to receive the 2026 Susan E. F. Chipman and Robert G. Fitzgerald Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Cognitive Science! link
May 28, 2026	Presented a paper at the Computational Affective Science Workshop at LREC2026! EVOKE: Emotion Vocabulary Of Korean and English (LREC proceedings)
Aug 26, 2024	Co-organized a workshop at 2024 IEEE RO-MAN! Large Language Models in the RoMan Age: Exploring Social Impact and Implications for Design and Ethics
Aug 30, 2023	Presented two papers at 2023 IEEE RO-MAN! Social Robots As Companions for Lonely Hearts: The Role of Anthropomorphism and Robot Appearance (RO-MAN proceedings) Developing Social Robots with Empathetic Non-Verbal Cues Using Large Language Models (Late Breaking Report)