Bixuan Ren

Doctoral Advisor: Lars Willnat

Education:
M.A., Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing, China
B.L., Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Areas of Research: Artificial Intelligence; International Communication; Visual Communication; Public Relations

Presentations & Publications:

Bixuan Ren, EunJeong Cheon, and Jianghui Li. 2025. Organization Matters: A Qualitative Study of Organizational Dynamics in Red Teaming Practices for Generative AI. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW460 (November 2025), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757641

Lim, J., Zhang, J., & Ren, B. (2025). Partisan Responses to Cancel Culture on Social Media: Hostile Media Effects on Political Behavior. Online Information Review.

Davis, J., Luttrell, R., & Bixuan, R. (2024, November). Quantifying Bias in Generative AI: A Comparative Analysis of Polarized Bias in Stable Diffusion Models. Abstract accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the National Communication Association.

Bixuan, R., Jincheng, Z., & Rui, L. (2023, April). Compare by scenario: A policy text analysis of China’s province-level policies on the autonomous vehicle industry. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Comparative Public Policy in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

Bio: Bixuan Ren’s research interests lie at the intersection of AI-mediated communication and public relations. Her work focuses on topics such as AI news anchors, anti-immigrant mis/disinformation, affective public relations and AI ethics. She is a mixed-methods researcher, enjoying running surveys, interviews, natural language processing and experiments. In her leisure time, she likes dancing, cooking, traveling and exploring food.