Angel Hwang
Assistant Professor Computational Communication Science & Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Studies human-AI interaction and the social effects of AI on teamwork, content production and mental health support.
Angel Hwang's lab at USC works on accessibility, health & wellbeing, human-AI collaboration & trust and signal processing & information theory. 12 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly CHI and EMNLP. 6 PhD students and 2 master's students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 75%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 2
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, EMNLP, CSCW, DIS, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-AI collaboration & trust2 papers
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing1 paper
- effects1 paper
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- production0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- CHI (T1)"Better Ask for Forgiveness than Permission": Practices and Policies of AI Disclosure in Freelance Work (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Human BehaviourA reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)CounselBench: A Large-Scale Expert Evaluation and Adversarial Benchmarking of Large Language Models in Mental Health Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Framing Responsible Design of AI for Mental Well-Being: AI as Primary Care, Nutritional Supplement, or Yoga Instructor? (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Rating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of LLMs Reflect Expectations More Than Performance (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)When Chatbots Accommodate: Auditing the Response Policies of AI Companions in Vulnerable Conversations (opens in a new tab)
20252 papers
20243 papers
- DISIn Whose Voice?: Examining AI Agent Representation of People in Social Interaction through Generative Speech (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Societal-Scale Human-AI Interaction Design? How Hospitals and Companies are Integrating Pervasive Sensing into Mental Healthcare (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)The Sound of Support: Gendered Voice Agent as Support to Minority Teammates in Gender-Imbalanced Team (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
- Round
- Single round (Dec 15)
- Opens
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