Recognition — Jon A. Chun

Current AI grants & standards

Schmidt Sciences HAVI — co-PI, “Archival Intelligence” (2025). Co-PI, with Katherine Elkins, of Archival Intelligence: Rescuing New Orleans' Endangered Cultural Legacy, a Humanities and AI Virtual Institute project. Selected as 1 of 23 teams worldwide; up to $330,000 over 18 months from an $11M program. archivalintelligenceai.org →
Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab — co-PI (2024). Co-PI, with Katherine Elkins and Notre Dame's Yong Suk Lee, on a project auditing how large language models reason in high-stakes decisions under a FATE framework (fairness, accuracy, transparency, explainability), using recidivism prediction as a test case. Part of a round totaling more than $900,000.
NIST CAISI — co-leads the Modern Language Association team (2024–present). Co-leads the team representing the 25,000-member Modern Language Association at NIST CAISI on LLM evaluation and red-teaming. The team's ethics-based audit results were presented during the opening keynote at the consortium's first plenary at the University of Maryland.

$26M

SafeWeb acquired by Symantec (2003)

In-Q-Tel

First security investment by the CIA-affiliated nonprofit

US patents on early SSL/clientless VPN appliances

SafeWeb → Symantec. Co-founded SafeWeb (2000) and later served as CEO; the company received the first security investment from In-Q-Tel and was acquired by Symantec in 2003 for $26 million (SEC Form 10-Q).
US 7,730,528 — “Intelligent secure data manipulation apparatus and method.” View patent →
US 8,065,520 — “Method and apparatus for encrypted communications to a secure server.” View patent →

ICML 2024 — co-author of the open-source generative-AI position paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (oral). PMLR →
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu — engineering honor societies (UC Berkeley).
American Heart Association Research Fellow — University of Iowa College of Medicine (1995–1997); two PubMed-indexed publications.

"Debating the system of values we wish these tools to align with is the first step."

Tanya Klowden & Terence Tao (Fields Medalist), engaging Chun & Elkins, IJHAC (2023)

Reception is strongest described as specific scholarly uptake rather than a citation count:

The GPT-3 creative-writing paper was cited by Floridi and Chiriatti in Minds and Machines, by Spitale and co-authors in Science Advances, and by Mei and co-authors in PNAS.
The Narrative article on AI and narrative studies was discussed by James Phelan in Poetics Today.
The human-centered AI curriculum article was cited by Jaramillo and Chiappe in Prospects, and by Klowden and Terence Tao.
The comparative AI regulation paper was cited by Floridi and Ascani in Minds and Machines, by Perboli and co-authors in Economic and Political Studies, and by Olugbade in Global Public Policy and Governance.
The ICML open-source generative-AI position paper was cited by Taeihagh in Policy and Society.