Scholar
Sunny Rai
Google Scholar ID: C-gi0v8AAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
LLMs
Value Alignment
Digital Mental Health
Creative Text Processing
AI for Health
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sunnyrai@seas.upenn.edu
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Publications
8 items
"We Are Tired of Explaining": Communication Practice and AI Roleplay Training for Community Health Workers in Rural India
2026
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LLMs Mirror Country-Specific Gender Patterns If Asked, but Skew Male When Generating Media in Local Languages
2026
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Conceptors for Semantic Steering
2026
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Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs
2025
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HATS: Hindi Analogy Test Set for Evaluating Reasoning in Large Language Models
2025
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Conversations with AI Chatbots Increase Short-Term Vaccine Intentions But Do Not Outperform Standard Public Health Messaging
2025
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Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media
2024
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Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice
2024
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Resume
Academic Achievements
Oct’25: Paper accepted at EMNLP’25 and NeurIPS’25
Jan’25: Long paper accepted at NAACL’25
Dec’24: Awarded $19,500 grant from the Leonard Davis Institute for multimodal depression risk assessment
Aug’24: Awarded $50,000 PMCRI grant to build a chatbot for virtual HPV vaccine counseling
Mar’24: Research on racial heterogeneity in depression covered by Thomson Reuters, Philly Voice, Science News, Penn Medicine News, and NIDA
Mar’24: Long paper accepted at NAACL’24
Jan’24: Study “Key language markers of depression depend on race” published in PNAS
Co-authors
10 total
Sharath Chandra Guntuku
University of Pennsylvania
Lyle Ungar
University of Pennsylvania
Shreya Havaldar
Student, University of Pennsylvania
Salvatore Giorgi
Data Scientist, University of Pennsylvania
Rohan Joseph
Mahindra University
Young-Min Cho
University of Pennsylvania
Brenda Curtis
National Institute on Drug Abuse/Intramural Research Program
Simon See
nvidia