Education

• Ph.D in Information Technology, George Mason University, 2026
• M.S. in Computer Science, George Mason University, 2020
• B.S. in Computer Science, University of Taipei, 2017

Honors & Awards

• Travel Fund from iConference (2026)
• Dissertation Completion Grant from GMU’s Office of the Provost (Spring 2026)
• Doctoral Colloquium, ASIST’25 (2025)
• 3rd-Place Prize in the Poster Session at the Converge AI Event Organized by the GMU’s AI-in-Gov Council (2025)
• GMU University Travel Grant from Office of the Provost (2025)
• Conference Bursary Award (with Travel Fund) from Digital Humanities (DH) (2024)
• 3rd-Place Prize at the GMU College of Engineering and Computing Innovation Week Poster Competition (2024)
• GRA Award from GMU’s Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership (2023)
• GMU International Travel Grant from Associate Provost for Graduate Education (2022)
• Winner of Wells Fargo Campus Analytics Challenge – NLP and Topic Modeling (2020)
• Outstanding Achievement Award by Taipei City Council for 4 Academic Year (2013-17)
• Winner of the University of Taipei Social Network Design Competition (2017)
• University of Taipei High Scholar Achievement Award for 4 Consecutive Years (2013-17)
• Winner of the University of Taipei Software Creative Design Competition (2013)

Work experience

• 2019-2026: Graduate Research Assistant, Community Informatics Lab, George Mason University
  • Developed computational algorithms for large-scale data processing, modeling, and pattern discovery
  • Conducted interdisciplinary research and collaborated with government and community stakeholders
  • Performed comprehensive literature reviews and contributed to research design and analytical frameworks
  • Contributed to grant proposal writing, including background research, methodological descriptions and preliminary analyses
  • Built interactive web-based visualization systems to visualize research findings
• Summer 2024: The Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Policy Fellow, Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (VASEM)
  • Worked with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
  • Ethics-based analysis of AI use in higher education
  • Developed policy recommendations for applying GenAI to support students with disabilities
• 2017-2018: Software Engineer, MYGUARD Company Limited, Taiwan
  • Developed and improved iOS and Android Apps for an international medical foundation and increased 16% of downloads in one year
  • Used Python to analyze and generate usage report of Apps to help the medical foundation spread medical knowledge

Skills

• Programming Languages/ Databases: Python, C, C++, Java, MATLAB, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, MongoDB, Spark
• Frameworks/ Other: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Django, Angular, Jenkins, RESTful Web Service (Jersey), React, Rancher, Docker, Android Studio, Git
• Languages: Mandarin, English

Publications

Disability Misinformation on Facebook: A Comparison of LLM-based Fact-Checking Tools

Prazak, I., Padovani, L., Lim, Y., Hsu, J. H.-P. & Lee, M. Disability Misinformation on Facebook: A Comparison of LLM-based Fact-Checking Tools in iConference 2026 Proceedings (2026).

Predicting the Success of Local Gatherings: A Comparison of Organizer- and Participant-side Success in Meetup

Hsu, J. H. P., Mahabir, R., Gonzales, V., Gkountouna, O., Hilal, A., & Lee, M. (2026). Predicting the success of local gatherings: A comparison of organizer-and participant-side success in Meetup. Cities, 169, 106530.

From Open‑Ended Text to Taxonomy: An LLM‑based Framework for Information Sources for Disability Services

Hsu, J. H. P., & Lee, M. (2025). From Open‐Ended Text to Taxonomy: An LLM‐Based Framework for Information Sources for Disability Services. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 915-919.

Leveling Socioeconomic Disparities: The Role of Service Availability in School Dropout Rates

Kim, J., Hsu, J. H. P., Sohn, G., Lee, G. M., & Lee, M. (2025). Leveling Socoeconomic Disparities: The Role of Service Availability in School Dropout Rates. Research on Social Work Practice, 10497315251377009.

An Evaluation of GPT-4V for Transcribing the Urban Renewal Hand-Written Collection

Lee, M. & Hsu, J. H.-P. An Evaluation of GPT-4V for Transcribing the Urban Renewal Hand-Written Collection in Digital Humanities (DH ’24) (2024)

Two-sided Cultural Niches: Topic Overlap, Geospatial Correlation, and Local Group Activities on Event-based Social Networks

Hsu, J. H. P., Shin, H., Park, N., & Lee, M. (2023, May). Two-sided Cultural Niches: Topic Overlap, Geospatial Correlation, and Local Group Activities on Event-based Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (pp. 54-63).

Towards an Expectation-Oriented Model of Public Service Quality: A Preliminary Study of NYC 311

Hsu, J. H. P., Wang, J., & Lee, M. (2022, October). Towards an expectation-oriented model of public service quality: A preliminary study of nyc 311. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 447-458). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Teaching & Mentoring Experience

• Spring 2026: Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Research in Applied Information Technology (AIT 602), GMU
• 2025-2026: Research Mentor, SAFETI Project (in collaboration with Virginia DOLI), Community Informatics Lab, GMU
• 2022-2023: Aspiring Scientist Summer Internship Program (ASSIP) Mentor
• 2021-2022: Research Mentor, AI for AI Project, Community Informatics Lab, GMU
• 2020-2022: Research Mentor and Technical Lead, Information Deserts and Visualization of Civic Technology Use in DMV Projects, Community Informatics Lab, GMU
• 2017: Teaching Assistant, Python Programming, University of Taipei
• 2017: Teaching Assistant, Java Programming, University of Taipei