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Student Research學生研究

Student research extends the Center’s teaching — sociology students, under faculty supervision, bring the AI perspective from class into their own projects.

The Center encourages students to develop their curiosity about AI into formal research. From gender and algorithms to sentiment shift in machine translation and the everyday impact of digital technology, students produce results through NSTC undergraduate research grants, paper competitions, and open-source model development, publishing on portfolios and platforms such as Hugging Face. Below are recent highlights supervised by Center faculty.

Projects & Outputs學生研究計畫與成果

  1. 2026

    Pei-An Yen, "When AI Meets Gender: How social-platform algorithms in Taiwan and Korea reproduce or dissolve menstrual stigma." Studying platforms in Taiwan and South Korea, it analyzes how recommendation and content-moderation algorithms shape the visibility of menstruation-related content, examining the AI-mediated reproduction and loosening of gender stigma. Approved, NSTC Undergraduate Research Grant, AY 2026–27. Advisor: Fang-Yi Huang.

  2. 2026

    Po-Hao Chen, "An open-source multilingual NLP model for detecting sentiment shift in English–Chinese–Korean machine translation" (undergraduate project) — developing TriShift-Sentiment: a Hugging Face–based model for multilingual sentiment-shift detection across English, Chinese, and Korean. It builds a multilingual NLP model that detects how machine translation quietly shifts the sentiment of a text across the three languages, and is released open-source on Hugging Face for the public and research community. Advisor: Fang-Yi Huang. Undergraduate Open Source

  3. 2026

    Kuo-Wei Lu, master’s student. Master’s thesis "Postmodern Society and Generative AI: ChatGPT’s Globalized Reverse Tower-of-Babel Project" — a postmodern account of how generative AI reorganizes cross-lingual communication and meaning as a "reverse Tower-of-Babel project." His portfolio also collects four essays on AI and society. Advisor: Yu-Cheng Liu. Thesis

  4. 2026

    Yu-Han Chang, "The impact of location-tracking apps on college students." Drawing on everyday use, it examines how location/check-in apps shape students’ time management, social interaction, and self-disclosure. Soochow Sociology student paper competition. Advisor: Fang-Yi Huang. Award

How We Mentor研究培育管道

  1. Grants

    NSTC undergraduate research grants: one-on-one faculty mentoring that guides students through the full arc — from framing a question and reviewing the literature to research design, data collection, and the final report.

  2. Contests

    Papers and competitions: departmental paper competitions and presentations on and off campus, encouraging students to refine class projects into publishable research.

  3. Open source

    Open-source models and portfolios: students are encouraged to publish through open-source models (e.g. Hugging Face) and public portfolios. See AI-course portfolios at scu-portfolio.web.app and the Japan-exchange site at scu-japan2.web.app.

  4. Bridging

    Bridging to research: standout class projects and papers can grow into NSTC projects or theses, in dialogue with the Center’s faculty research agenda.

For faculty research and projects, see the Research page.