Computational Social Science and innovation | Incoming Assistant Prof @uarizona & postdoc @NICOatNU @KelloggSchool |@UMich @umsi PhD |Prev: @MSFTResearch
Joined February 2020
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7 May 2025
Life update! I’ll join @UofAinfoSci @uarizona as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. Before that, I’ll postdoc with @UzziLeadership at @KelloggSchool @NorthwesternU visit @MSFTResearch. Excited to keep exploring how data, AI, and social networks drive innovation!
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Excited to attend @acm_chi for the first time! One line of my work explores how generative AI shapes human intelligence and knowledge flow, using large-scale human–AI interaction data (e.g., chat logs) for empirical analysis. I’m excited to connect with like minded researchers.
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2) shifts in social roles in online knowledge production (led by Ji Eun Kim)
doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799…
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Yulin Yu retweeted
23 Oct 2025
For those AI researchers who have recently (re)entered the job market, just a reminder that our team— AI Interaction and Learning at Microsoft Research Redmond—is currently hiring multiple ML/AI researchers.
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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Yulin Yu retweeted
16 Oct 2025
📣Hiring! Two opportunities
1. Research internship@MSR AI Interaction and Learning (Current PhD students)
2. Multiple positions in my lab @UTiSchool on LLM Personalization/Human-AI Alignment (Prospective PhD students)
Details in thread below👇
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9 Oct 2025
The AI, Interaction, and Learning team at Microsoft Research is looking for interns! If you're working on your PhD in machine learning, computer science, statistics, economics, computational social science or related fields apply: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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9 Oct 2025
My team at Microsoft Research is hiring PhD interns for next summer!
If you’re interested in understanding or improving human-LLM systems, apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
Topics we’re studying include LLM personalization, reasoning, collaboration, benchmarking,
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Yulin Yu retweeted
25 Aug 2025
UMSI is pleased to announce the oral defense of Yulin Yu, "The Future of Creativity: Explore How Novel Use of Data and AI Impact Innovation – A quantitative exploration." 🔗 myumi.ch/bVj2b
All are welcome to attend in 3470 Leinweber or online from 2-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Aug. 28!
@YulinYuResearch
ALT Announcement slide with headshot of Yulin Yu. Text reads "The oral defense of Yulin Yu. The Future of Creativity: Explore How Novel Use of Data and AI Impact Innovation -- A quantitative exploration." Thursday, August 28, 2025. 2-4 pm. Founders Room (Leinweber 3470) or online via Zoom. Daniel Romero, serving as committee chair, will preside over the oral defense. All are welcome to attend!" UMSI logo.
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Yulin Yu retweeted
11 Jul 2025
New paper from my group at @MSFTResearch!
📄arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935
Promises about how AI will change work are cheap. What does the actual data say?
We measured which work activities people use AI for, how successful they are, and which jobs do those tasks. 🧵1/8
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Yulin Yu retweeted
10 Jul 2025
Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience before heading off to grad school for computational social science / business / econ? Apply now to predoc with me and @DavMicRot and @jakehofman
DMs open
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🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on @Nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.
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Conventional wisdom says interdisciplinary research is valuable but harder to get through peer review (need to please diverse reviewers, etc).
In new @PNASNews paper, @SidneyXiang @DanielMRomero and I partnered with @IOPPublishing to test this wisdom and add nuance
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7 May 2025
Life update! I’ll join @UofAinfoSci @uarizona as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. Before that, I’ll postdoc with @UzziLeadership at @KelloggSchool @NorthwesternU visit @MSFTResearch. Excited to keep exploring how data, AI, and social networks drive innovation!
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7 May 2025
“I deeply appreciate everyone who has helped me along the way—my family, friends, mentors, and advisor @DanielMRomero @umsi @UMich
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Super excited to travel through four cities over the next 1.5 years—Seattle → Ann Arbor → Evanston → Tucson! I’m currently in Seattle/Redmond for a couple of months, so feel free to reach out if you’d like to meet up!
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1 May 2025
How did #IGotAThingFor become a thing?
Louise Zhu @david__jurgens @DanielMRomero and I explored the roles of networks and identity in the adoption of hashtags in our new @TheWebConf paper (Poster 01, Thu 5pm)!
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Yulin Yu retweeted
21 Apr 2025
I'm Hiring: Postdoc at Warwick
Join me to delve into the study of Scientific Prize. Successful candidate will work closely with me at Warwick, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists at Northwestern, Cornell and many more.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/c…
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How do scientists choose which topic to study? Studies of this are dispersed across fields, and it's surprisingly hard to find a review. Fortunately @SidneyXiang has written a fantastic one, focusing on literature in economics and sociology
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Yulin Yu retweeted
17 Feb 2025
I'm joining @BingCompSci as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email yang3kc@gmail.com
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