Harry Yaojun Yan

Harry Yaojun Yan earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington through the National Science Foundation's Interdisciplinary Trainee (NSF-NRT) program, with a dual major in Media Arts & Sciences at the Media School and Complex Networks & Systems (CNS) at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Before joining the Cybersecurity Policy Center at Stanford, he was a Knight Foundation Research Fellow at the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) and served as a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University. His research explores the impact of AI-user interactions on user perceptions of social and political realities, as well as the process of public opinion formation. Currently, his work focuses on the effects of large language models (LLMs) on knowledge acquisition and language styles. He is also developing a public-facing open-source online platform for designing scalable and flexible Human-AI interaction experiments. He is currently a fellow at the Stanford Social Media Lab at the Cyber Policy Center.