Bio
Yara Kyrychenko is a PhD candidate and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. She studies intergroup emotions on social media during conflicts, as well as broader societal problems like political polarization and misinformation. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she holds a BA degree in mathematics and psychology from New York University, where she worked on using computational methods to study social processes in conversations.
Research interests
Yara’s research uses data and behavioral science methods, like language models and lab experiments, to study the social identity dynamics of socio-technical systems. More specifically, she focuses on understanding (1) what abilities and biases large language models exhibit in social contexts, (2) how people influence these biases, and (3) how the biases might influence people.