About
I am a third-year Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin advised by Professor Junyi Jessy Li.
My research interests lie in evaluating and developing AI systems to be used in expert and high-stakes domains. I am particularly interested in research surrounding AI for Science and the ability to learn tacit knowledge inherent within niche fields. I also aim to build effective and responsible AI applications, ensuring that AI-generated content is factual and understandable while guarding against side effects such as over-reliance and skill erosion.
Industry Experience
Research Scientist/Engineer Intern, Adobe Research, Summer 2025 & Summer 2026
- Manager: Ani Nenkova
- Mentors: Jack Wang, Jennifer Healey, Alexa Siu
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin | 2024 - Present
M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science | Minor in Business
University of Texas at Austin | 2019 - 2024
Publications
VESTA: Visual Exploration with Statistical Tool Agents
William Rudman, Abhishek Divekar, Kanishk Jain, Sebastian Joseph, Stella S. R. Offner, Matthew Lease, Kyle Mahowald, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li
LinkNav: Surfacing Interconnected Information in Scientific Articles
Sebastian Joseph, Jennifer Healey, Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova
Decide less, communicate more: On the construct validity of end-to-end fact-checking in medicine
Sebastian Joseph, Lily Chen, Barry Wei, Michael Mackert, Iain J. Marshall, Paul Pu Liang, Ramez Kouzy, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li
AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy
Sebastian Joseph, Syed Murtaza Husain, Stella S. R. Offner, Stéphanie Juneau, Paul Torrey, Adam S. Bolton, Juan P. Farias, Niall Gaffney, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li
FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence
Sebastian Joseph*, Lily Chen*, Jan Trienes, Hannah Louisa Göke, Monika Coers, Wei Xu, Byron C Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li
InfoLossQA: Characterizing and Recovering Information Loss in Text Simplification
Jan Trienes, Sebastian Joseph, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert, Kyle Lo, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li
Multilingual Simplfication of Medical Texts
Sebastian Joseph, Kathryn Kazanas, Keziah Reina, Vishnesh J. Ramanathan, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li
Summarizing, Simplifying, and Synthesizing Medical Evidence using GPT-3 (with Varying Success)
Chantal Shaib, Millicent Li, Sebastian Joseph, Iain Marshall, Junyi Jessy Li, Byron Wallace
Workshop Papers
Generating Edit-Inducing Questions for AI Research Manuscripts
Sebastian Joseph, Zichao Wang, Jennifer Healey, Alexa Siu, Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova
Preprints
AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot
Joydeep Biswas, Sheila Schoepp, Gautham Vasan, Anthony Opipari, Arthur Zhang, Zichao Hu, Sebastian Joseph, Matthew Lease, Junyi Jessy Li, Peter Stone, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Matthew E. Taylor, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins