Dongwon Lee

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Research Summary

Research issues involving the management of information and knowledge, and their applications in the World Wide Web. Of particular interest are digital libraries, data management and mining, and web search and analysis.

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Recent Publications

Catch me if you search: When contextual web search results affect the detection of hallucinations

Nahar, M., Lee, E. J., Park, J. W. & Lee, D., Dec 2025, In: Computers in Human Behavior. 173, 108763.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Generative Artificial Intelligence Policies under the Microscope

Nahar, M., Lee, S., Guillen, R. & Lee, D., Jul 1 2025, In: Communications of the ACM. 68, 7, p. 29-33 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Socioeconomic Threats of Deepfakes and the Role of Cyber-Wellness Education in Defense

Taleby Ahvanooey, M., Mazurczyk, W. & Lee, D., Aug 1 2025, In: Communications of the ACM. 68, 8, p. 70-79 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Toward brain-inspired foundation model for EEG signal processing: our opinion

Cui, S., Lee, D. & Wen, D., 2024, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18, 1507654.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Learning to compensate for lack of information: Extracting latent knowledge for effective temporal knowledge graph completion

Lee, Y. C., Lee, J. H., Lee, D. & Kim, S. W., Jan 2024, In: Information Sciences. 654, 119857.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The Longtail Impact of Generative AI on Disinformation: Harmonizing Dichotomous Perspectives

Lucas, J. S., Maung, B. M., Tabar, M., Mcbride, K., Lee, D. & Murugesan, S., 2024, In: IEEE Intelligent Systems. 39, 5, p. 12-19 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Opinion Disinformation 2.0 in the Age of AI: A Cybersecurity Perspective

Mazurczyk, W., Lee, D. & Vlachos, A., Feb 22 2024, In: Communications of the ACM. 67, 3, p. 36-39 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

ALISON: Fast and Effective Stylometric Authorship Obfuscation

Xing, E., Venkatraman, S., Le, T. & Lee, D., Mar 25 2024, In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38, 17, p. 19315-19322 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

“Fact-checking” fact checkers: A data-driven approach

Lee, S., Xiong, A., Seo, H. & Lee, D., 2023, In: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 4, 5

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A novel policy-graph approach with natural language and counterfactual abstractions for explaining reinforcement learning agents

Liu, T., McCalmon, J., Le, T., Rahman, M. A., Lee, D. & Alqahtani, S., Oct 2023, In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 37, 2, 34.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Effects of Associative Inference on Individuals’ Susceptibility to Misinformation

Xiong, A., Lee, S., Seo, H. & Lee, D., Feb 17 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 29, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

ChamberBreaker: Mitigating the Echo Chamber Effect and Supporting Information Hygiene through a Gamified Inoculation System

Jeon, Y., Kim, B., Xiong, A., Lee, D. & Han, K., Oct 18 2021, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW2, 472.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A systematic review on fake news research through the lens of news creation and consumption: Research efforts, challenges, and future directions

Kim, B., Xiong, A., Lee, D. & Han, K., Dec 2021, In: PloS one. 16, 12 December, e0260080.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

“Fake News” Is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content

Molina, M. D., Sundar, S. S., Le, T. & Lee, D., Feb 2021, In: American Behavioral Scientist. 65, 2, p. 180-212 33 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Making AI Machines Work for Humans in FoW

Amer-Yahia, S., Basu Roy, S., Chen, L., Morishima, A., Abello Monedero, J., Bourhis, P., Charoy, F., Danilevsky, M., Das, G., Demartini, G., Dubey, A., Elbassuoni, S., Gross-Amblard, D., Hoareau, E., Inoguchi, M., Kenworthy, J., Kitahara, I., Lee, D., Li, Y. & Borromeo, R. M. & 10 others, Papotti, P., Rao, R., Roy, S., Senellart, P., Tajima, K., Thirumuruganathan, S., Tommasi, M., Umemoto, K., Wiggins, A. & Yoshida, K., Dec 9 2020, In: SIGMOD Record. 49, 2, p. 30-35 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review