About me
Hello! I’m Chaewan Chun (Chae).
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at The Pennsylvania State University, advised by Dr. Dongwon Lee. My research focuses on multimodal misinformation detection, especially fact-checking in spoken, conversational audio. I build datasets and methods that aim for positive social impact by improving information integrity.
Before my Ph.D., I completed dual B.S. degrees in Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) and Mathematics (Cum Laude), along with a minor in Statistics, at Penn State as a Schreyer Honors College scholar.
Interests: Machine Learning; Generative AI; Large Language Models; Computer Vision; Speech & Audio Processing; Multimodal Learning; Information Retrieval
Updates
🎉 Apr 2026 · "When Misinformation Speaks and Converses: Rethinking Fact-Checking in Audio Platforms" accepted at ACL main😆!!
📄 Mar 2026 · "Mapping the Flow of Painterly Gesture" accepted at Patterns
🏆 Feb 2026 · Penn State team selected as global Top-10 in Amazon Nova AI Challenge
📄 Feb 2026 · Two papers submitted to Interspeech 2026 (under review)
📄 Feb 2026 · "Brushstroke Analysis of Monet's Water Lilies" accepted at IEEE TPAMI
🎓 Dec 2025 · Passed PhD Comprehensive Exam
📄 Nov 2025 · Attended Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 in Chicago
📄 Oct 2025 · Paper submitted to ACL ARR 2026
🎤 Oct 2025 · Presented MAD poster at SBP-BRiMS 2025 at CMU
📄 Aug 2025 · MAD accepted at SBP-BRiMS 2025
🎤 Apr 2025 · Presented poster at MASC-SLL Symposium
📄 Mar 2026 · "Mapping the Flow of Painterly Gesture" accepted at Patterns
🏆 Feb 2026 · Penn State team selected as global Top-10 in Amazon Nova AI Challenge
📄 Feb 2026 · Two papers submitted to Interspeech 2026 (under review)
📄 Feb 2026 · "Brushstroke Analysis of Monet's Water Lilies" accepted at IEEE TPAMI
🎓 Dec 2025 · Passed PhD Comprehensive Exam
📄 Nov 2025 · Attended Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 in Chicago
📄 Oct 2025 · Paper submitted to ACL ARR 2026
🎤 Oct 2025 · Presented MAD poster at SBP-BRiMS 2025 at CMU
📄 Aug 2025 · MAD accepted at SBP-BRiMS 2025
🎤 Apr 2025 · Presented poster at MASC-SLL Symposium
Publications
ACL
When Misinformation Speaks and Converses: Rethinking Fact-Checking in Audio Platforms
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026
Patterns
Mapping the Flow of Painterly Gesture
Patterns, vol. 7, no. 3, article 101516, pp. 1-5, 2026
TPAMI
Computational Investigation of Abstraction in Claude Monet’s Water Lilies through Brushstroke Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2026
SBP-BRiMS
MAD: A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Audio Dialogue Fact-Checking
International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), Working paper, 2025
THESIS
Robust Image Classification Based on Pixel Importance
Schreyer Honors Thesis, Penn State University, 2022
