Joon Sung Park is a third-year computer science PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing groups at Stanford University, advised by Michael S. Bernstein and Percy Liang. His work introduces the concept of, and the techniques for building generative agents — computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. His work has won a best paper award at CHI as well as multiple best paper nominations and other paper awards at CHI, CSCW, and ASSETS, and has been reported in venues such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, Natural Machine Intelligence, and The Times. Joon is recognized with the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2022), Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship (2021), and Siebel Scholar Award (2019). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and a master’s degree in Computer Science under the supervision of Karrie Karahalios from UIUC.

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