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Yun Huang is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He co-directs the Social Computing Systems (SALT) Lab and focuses on research in social computing systems, investigating context-driven approaches to designing crowdsourcing systems. His work examines how context impacts user contributions in these systems and leverages contextual effects to innovate social computing systems that engage users. Huang received his PhD from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and holds a bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Before joining Illinois, he was a faculty member at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Faculty member in the School of Information Sciences.
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University • Syracuse, NY
Engaged in teaching and research.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Conducted advanced research in social computing.
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