Courses

[Fall 2026]
LIS 4930-0001 Special Topics in Info Technology: AI Literacy and Ethics
LIS 5916-0001 Issues in Information Studies: AI Literacy and Ethics
IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century
[Spring 2026] IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century
[Fall 2025] IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century

Ph.D. Information Studies, 2025; University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. Big Data in Culture and Society, 2017; King’s College London

Information Bias; AI Literacy and Ethics; Human-AI Governance; AI Education across K-12, Higher Ed, & Information Workforce; Mis/disinformation; Information Credibility Assessment; Information Retrieval; Social Media; Critical Internet Studies; Social Computing; Digital Humanities

Information Bias; AI Literacy and Ethics; Human-AI Governance; AI Education across K-12, Higher Ed, & Information Workforce; Mis/disinformation; Information Credibility Assessment; Information Retrieval; Social Media; Critical Internet Studies; Social Computing; Digital Humanities

Publications

• Lee, S. (2026). A Process-Oriented AI Literacy Education Grounded in Generative AI Mechanisms. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society. Retrieved from https://journal.kci.go.kr/liss/archive/articleView?artiId=ART003318081
• Lee, S., & Cho, S. H. (2025). Forgotten ‘American Ghosts’: Technical and Ethical Issues in Digitizing Oral Histories of Early Immigrant Communities. In Tamara Štefanac, & Anne Gilliland (Eds.), Archives and Traces of Migration (AToM) A Handbook of Best Practices (pp. 329-345). ICARUS Croatia. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391903744_Archives_and_Traces_of_Migration_A_Handbook_of_Best_Practices
• Lee, S., & Gilliland, A. (2024). Evolving Definitions of Hate Speech: The Impact of a Lack of Standardized Definitions. In Isaac Sserwanga, Hideo Joho, Jie Ma, Preben Hansen, Dan Wu, Masanori Koizumi, & Anne J. Gilliland (Eds.), iConference 2024 Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win (pp. 141-156). Springer Cham. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1_11
• Lee, S. (2024). Navigating Biases Embedded Within the Algorithms and Displays Used by Different Search Engines. In Solodkaya, A., Peterson, A., & Salisbury, M. (Ed.), DLFTeach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacy. DLFteach Publications. Retrieved from https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/pub/sqa3ki79
• Lee, S. (2023). Understanding the Intricacies of Academic Search Engines. In Serena Dewar (Ed.), Digital Humanities Congress 2022, The Digital Humanities Institute, Sheffield, UK. Sheffield, UK: The Digital Humanities Institute. Retrieved from https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2022/understanding-the-intricacies-of-academic-search-engines/
• Lee, S. (2021). Inherent Biases and Complexities of the Use of Historical Digital Archives: Bibliometric Analysis in Digital Archives of Holocaust Victims. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 17(1). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/D417154037 doi:10.5070/D417154037

Talks

• Lee, S. (October, 2026). Developing Scalable Educational Frameworks for Responsible AI Use in Florida Higher Education. Presentation at the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) 2026 Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.
• Lee, S. (September, 2026). AI Education Policy: A Comparative Thematic Analysis of K-12 Guidance in the United States and the United Kingdom. Presentation at the Digital Humanities Congress 2026, Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, UK.
• Lee, S. (August, 2026). Metadata-Conditioned Moral Grammars: How AI Companies Define Responsibility, Moral Language, Value Hierarchies, and Governance in AI Policy Documents. Presentation at the 24th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Initiative (DCMI) 2026, Seoul, South Korea.
• Lee, S. (June, 2026). Libraries as Infrastructures of AI Literacy: Reframing AI Literacy Education as a Process-Oriented Practice. Presentation at the 2026 Summer International Conference of the Korean Library and Information Science Society (K-LISS), Daegu, South Korea.
• Marty, P., Choi, G. W., Adams, J., Erlebacher, G.., & Lee, S. (March, 2026). Panel on AI and education. Workshop delivered at the FSU SC Artificial Intelligence Seminar, Tallahassee, FL.
• Galloway, B., Green, L., & Lee, S. (November, 2025). Youth, Identity, and Extremism. Workshop delivered at the Pacific Council on International Policy.
• Daly, D., Jarrette, K., & Lee, S (November, 2025). Sketches for Skepticism Workshop. Workshop delivered at the iConference 2025, Bloomington, IN.
• Lee, S. (May, 2025). Information as infrastructure, libraries as infrastructures of trust: Mis/disinformation & community needs during uncertain times. Presentation at the Chinese American Librarians Association Southeast and Southwest Chapters Annual Virtual Conference 2025, Chinese American Librarians Association
• Lee, S. (April, 2025). Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing: The Impact of Sample Size Norms on Underfunded Individual Researchers. Presentation at the 4th Annual UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) Graduate Conference, UCLA European Languages & Transcultural Studies, Canadian Studies Program, Los Angeles, CA.
• Lee, S., & Ong, C. (December, 2024). The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Project. Workshop delivered at the UCLA Information Studies Colloquium 2024, Los Angeles, CA.
• Lee, S. (October, 2024). Fairness and Bias in AI Algorithms and Interfaces. Workshop delivered at the 2024 ALISE ACADEMY (Workshop) Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Digital Pedagogy and The Post-Truth Society: Evaluating The Credibility of Information. Presentation at the 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) Conference, Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI).
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Untold Stories, Untraveled Paths: Exploring Oral Histories & Micro-Mobility Innovations. Workshop delivered at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Youth In The Digital Age: The Subtler Truth Of Adolescents’ Online Hate Speech and Cyberbullying and The Role of Digital Literacy. Workshop delivered at the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), Seoul, South Korea.
• Lee, S. (March, 2024). Evolving Definitions of Hate Speech: The Impact of a Lack of Standardized Definitions. Presentation at the iConference 2024: Wisdom, Well -being, Winwin, iConference.
• Lee, S. (July, 2023). A Journey from Many to One through the Early Korean American Community Archive. Delivered at the UCLA Library International Council
• Lee, S. (September, 2022). Addressing Inherent Biases in Information Retrieval Systems of Digital Archives. Presentation at the Digital Humanities Congress 2022, Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, UK.

• Lee, S. (2026). First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grant: Collaborative Engagement with Generative AI. Funded by the FSU Council on Research and Creativity.
• Lee, S. (2025). The Cyber Hate and Antisemitism on Social Media (CHASM) Project. Funded by The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH).
• The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Team. (2024). The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Project. Funded by The UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH).