Do Won Kim

Do Won Kim

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student studying Computational Social Science at the College of Information, University of Maryland. I am advised by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Cody Buntain.

My research combines Political Science and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to explore the role of digital media in democratic processes. Specifically, I investigate how digital media impacts public informedness, prosocial behavior, and individual well-being, and how platforms can be designed to better support democratic values. My work focuses on combining computational methods with (online) field experiments to design, implement, and evaluate interventions that enhance online information environments.
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News

[Sept. 2024]
🙌 Awarded the Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies ($4,000)!
[Aug. 2024]
🙌 Awarded the Doctoral Students Research Awards ($1,500)!
[July. 2024]
🙌 Awarded the Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant ($250) for IC2S2!
[June. 2024]
🤩 Had fun participating in A Short First Course in Network Science
[May. 2024]
🥳 Our team was selected as one of nine finalists of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge, a worldwide crowdsourcing challenge organized by the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley!
[April. 2024]
🥳 Accepted a poster presentation for IC2S2 2024!
[April. 2024]
🤩 I am honored to serve as a Program Committee member for the International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2024) at the 2024 International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
[April. 2024]
🙌 I am excited to announce that I have become an affiliated PhD student at the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS).
[Mar. 2024]
📖 Reviewed a paper (Behaviour & Information Technology).
[Feb. 2024]
📖 Reviewed ICWSM 2024 papers.
[May. 2023]
🥳 I am thrilled to have received the Dean's Fellowship during my first year of doctoral studies at UMD!