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 Workshop, Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26); 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]