About Us

The M³ Lab is committed to tackling issues of morality, ethics, and inclusivity in human-computer interaction, human-machine interaction, and agent (machine) development.
The lab projects generally have a common thread of utilizing computational methods and inclusivity (intersectionality, accessibility, personality styles, communication styles, individual variability) in multiple communication contexts (social media, partisanship, health behavior, and interpersonal). The Lab is divided into 5 separate teams, or tracks:
1) Morality, 2) Virtual Environments, 3) Computational Social Science, 4) Data Science for Inclusivity, and 5) Health and Risk

Lab Members

USC Team

David C. Jeong, Ph.D.

David Jeong oversees the M³ Lab and leads each research group within the lab.

James Lee

lee526[at]usc.edu)
Affliiation: PhD candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Morality group, Game Studies group

Deborah Neffa Creech

(neffacre[at]usc.edu)
Affliiation: PhD candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Health/Science/Risk Group

Calvin (Hyun-Tae) Kim

hyuntae[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Morality group

Meiqing Zhang

meiqingz[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Morality group

Amber Lynn Scott

amscott[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Risk group; Morality group

Sharon Zhang

sharonzh[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: Undergraduate Research Assistant, USC Department of Psychology, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Data Science for Inclusivity

Herbert (Ho-Chun) Chang

hochunhe[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: Ph.D. Student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Computational Social Science, Agent Modeling, Data Science for Inclusivity

Steffie Kim

steffiek[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Game Studies group; Health/Risk group

Feixue Nan

ynan[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Health/Risk group

Edward Kang

byungkwk[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: Ph.D. Student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Data Science for Inclusivity

Jackie (Jingyi) Xu

jingyixu[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: Master's student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Lab involvement: Data Science for Inclusivity

Krystal Gallegos

kigalleg[at]usc.edu
Affliiation: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
Lab involvement: Data Science for Inclusivity

Affiliate Lab Members

Off-Site Collaborators

Dan Feng

danfeng[at]husky.neu.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, Khoury School of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Lab involvement: Morality group, Game Studies group

Soojong Kim

soojong.kim[at]asc.upenn.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Lab involvement: Morality group

Joomi Lee

leejoomi[at]msu.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, College of Communication, Michigan St. University
Lab involvement: Game Studies

Yuyu Xu

xu.yuyu[at]husky.neu.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, Khoury School of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Lab involvement: Morality group, Agent Modeling

Desheng Hu

hu.des@husky.neu.edu
Affliiation: PhD candidate, Khoury School of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Lab involvement: Morality group, Data Science for Inclusivity

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