USC SIGNALS Lab
Zhiyi Chen
Master's Student · Alumni
Zhiyi Chen is a graduate student at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. She received her B.A. from Tsinghua University in Information Management & Information Systems and Linguistics. Her research interests lie in computational social science and natural language processing.
Publications
Growth First, Care Second? Tracing the Landscape of LLM Value Preferences in Everyday Dilemmas
Authors: Z Chen, EC Choi, Y Luo, X Wang, Y Xiao, A Yang, L Luceri
Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.04456When Chatbots Accommodate: What AI Companions Optimize for in Vulnerable Conversations
Authors: MD Chu, Y Wu, Z Chen, AHC Hwang, L Luceri
Year: 2026Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.04431Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X
Authors: Z Chen*, J Ye*, B Tsai, E Ferrara, L Luceri
Year: 2025Journal: [⭐Best Paper Honorable Mention] Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on …