Dr. Sejin Paik is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy focusing on the humanness of AI-generated content during the 2024 U.S. election. Her research examines how individuals interact with AI-generated content and develops various multimodal AI models for deepfake detection, news personalization algorithms and automated content summarization and production tools.
She received her B.A. at Emory University in International Studies, M.A. at Stanford University in Computational Journalism and Ph.D. in Communication from Boston University specializing in AI in Journalism, Political Psychology, Human-Centered AI and Intelligent Social Systems.
In her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Digital Soup: The Interplay Between Journalistic and Algorithmic Curation on News Framing Effects,” she investigates how algorithmic and journalistic curation affect news framing credibility, and political participation on social media platforms. Building on her research, Dr. Paik’s interdisciplinary work in tech product development utilizes computational social science methods to design and develop ethical AI and emerging media technologies for the public good.