Neil Sehgal

#NAACL2025 How to compare cultural differences with social media data in scale? Our work uses lexica to annotate X 🇺🇸 & Weibo 🇨🇳 posts with valence (😄☹️) & arousal (🔥❄️) scores, revealing cross-cultural differences in emotional expression. aclanthology.org/2025.findings-…

Excited for #CHI2025 🌸(my first!) & looking forward to connecting with folks building culturally sensitive, scalable, policy-focused AI for Health. @sehgal_neil & @_hitakam present our ongoing work on designing AI for adolescent mental health in India: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

🚨 New CHI'25 EA paper! 🚨 How can we design culturally sensitive mental health chatbots for Indian adolescents? 🇮🇳📱 Our mixed-methods study reveals key design insights—from stigma to personalization. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08562 #CHI2025 #HCI #MentalHealth #AIforGood

LDI Senior Fellows @sehgal_neil, @agarwalEM, @RainaMerchant, @SharathGuntuku, and colleagues analyzed Yelp reviews of health care facilities to assess how patient sentiment toward changed before and after COVID-19.

Does #shame manifest differently across #cultures? Yes. Can LLMs identify #norms behind shame? Yes. Are women shamed more than men? Yes!!! Can #LLMs identify when someone is shamed? arxiv.org/abs/2402.11333 #NAACL2025

We're hiring a postdoc @Penn to advance data science methods for behavioral health and psychology! Full details here: bit.ly/penn_postdoc_n… You will work with an amazing interdisciplinary team @PennEngAI @WWBProject @PennLDI @PennCHIBE @PM_Innovation Please apply / RT!