Publications
Notes: * corresponding author; † equal contribution.
Journal Papers
Zhai, X., Bach, P. M., Ghazoul, J., Casanelles Abella, J., Buchecker, M., Giger Dray, A., Sun, J., & Kleinschroth, F. (2026). Artificial intelligence for urban ecosystem restoration: reshaping social–ecological–technological interactions. npj Urban Sustainability. [doi]Key Words: Artificial Intelligence; Urban Ecology; Participatory Design
Smer-Barreto, V.*, Quintanilla, A., Elliott, R. J. R., Dawson, J. C., Sun, J., Campa, V. M., Lorente-Macias, A., Unciti-Broceta, A., Carragher, N. O., Acosta, J. C., & Oyarzún, D. A. (2023). Discovery of senolytics using machine learning. Nature Communications, 14, 3445. [pdf]
Key Words: Applied Machine Learning; Drug Discovery
Conference Proceedings
Sun, J.*, Sevastjanova, R.†, Ahmadi, S.†, Sennrich, R., & El-Assady, M. (2025). Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), 148-158. [pdf]Key Words: Low-resouerced NLP; Gamification; Visualisation
Conference Workshops & Findings
Ni, W., Sun, J., Liu, Y., & El-Assady, M. (2026). Cross-Cultural Simulation of Citizen Emotional Responses to Bureaucratic Red Tape Using LLM Agents. PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy (to appear); arXiv:2604.12545. [pdf] [doi] [workshop]Key Words: LLMs, Agent-Simulation, Public Administration
Laguna, S.†, Heidenreich, J.†, Sun, J.†, Cetin, N.†, Al-Hazwani, I., Schlegel, U., Cheng, F., & El-Assady, M. (2023). ExpLIMEable: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring LIME. IEEE VIS 2023 Workshop on Visualisation for AI Explainability in Healthcare (VAHC). [pdf] [doi]
Key Words: Explainable AI; Visualisation; LIME; Healthcare
Laguna, S.†, Heidenreich, J.†, Sun, J.†, Cetin, N.†, Al-Hazwani, I., Schlegel, U., Cheng, F., & El-Assady, M. (2023). ExpLIMEable: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring LIME. XAI in Action: Past, Present, and Future Applications (NeurIPS XAIA 2023). [pdf] [OpenReview]