Sejin Paik
Main Campus Research - Assistant Research Professor
Dr. Sejin Paik is an Assistant Research Professor at the Massive Data Institute (MDI) within Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at MDI from September 2024 - June 2025. Her research areas of focus are in AI-mediated communication, human-computer interaction, political psychology, algorithmic curation, and information integrity. Currently At MDI, she examines how individuals perceive AI-generated political content and audits generative AI models to assess their ability to replicate human-like content.
Dr. Paik is also involved in applied AI research and product development, where she develops multimodal AI models for real-world applications such as deepfake detection, personalization algorithms, algorithmic curation, and automated tools using AI for public sector needs. Her interdisciplinary, applied research initiatives leverage computational social science and computer science-based methodologies to design ethical AI technologies that are human-centered, value-driven, and aligned with the public interest.
She received her B.A. at Emory University in International Studies, M.A. at Stanford University in Computational Journalism and Ph.D. in Communication from Boston University.