Yi-Yun (Athena) Chu

Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

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I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.

My research studies the behavioral and economic consequences of artificial intelligence. I examine how people interact with AI systems and agents, how these technologies reshape digital platforms and markets, and how they should be designed and governed. My current work focuses on AI agents, trust and decision-making, AI-supported learning, and platform governance, using causal inference, experiments, econometrics, and machine learning.

Open to collaboration and discussion, feel free to reach out via email.


📢 News

Sep, 2026 Our paper Do Agents Repair When Challenged – or Just Reply? has been accepted as a spotlight paper (top 6%) at the REALM Workshop at EMNLP 2026.
Jul, 2026 Our paper Do Agents Repair When Challenged – or Just Reply? has been accepted to the Wharton AI Conference 2026 and the NYU Workshop on AI and the Future of Collaborative Innovation (WAICI 2026).
Dec, 2025 WITS Best Dissertation Award, AI-Driven Trust and Credentialing across Digital Social Domains
Jun, 2025 Awarded Daniel and Rise Nagin Dissertation Fellowships
Jun, 2025 Awarded the Flash Session Winner award for the “User Generated Content” session, ISMS Marketing Science Conference.