Dongyeop Kang (DK) @ University of Minnesota

Dongyeop Kang
Dongyeop Kang (DK)

Assistant Professor

CS&E, University of Minnesota

259 Shepherd, dongyeop@umn.edu


Ph.D. Students
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Teaching (past courses)

I build human-centric language technologies, focusing on cognitively aligning human and machine thinking. See my research statement.
  • Cognitive scaffolding: Augment LLM's capabilities using human cognition data for improving planning, abstraction, and reasoning.
  • Expert-level AI: Interactive systems for collaboration with scientists, lawyers, and teachers, and benchmarking their workflow and thought process
  • Societal alignment: Build inclusive NLP systems reflecting pluralistic perspectives.
Research Topics:
Writing & Thinking
Alignment
Interaction
Cognition


Publication ( By Date | By Topic | Google Scholar )

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Awards and Grants (read more)
  • 2025 Thomson Reuters Research Gift Award
  • 2025 Naver Research Gift Award
  • 2025 DDC Computational Creativity Grant, PI (w Im)
  • 2025 MnRI Seed Grant, Co-PI with Hong (PI), Choi, and Wang
  • 2025 NSF NAIRR Pilot Award
  • 2024 Grammarly Research Gift Award
  • 2024 Open Philanthropy, Agent Benchmark Grant, PI (w Daniel Schwarcz, Brett McDonnell)
  • 2024 UMN DSI Seed Grant (w Mingyi Hong)
  • 2022-2024 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA)
  • 2023 UMN CTSI Grant (/w Jennifer Needle and Gwenyth Fischer)
  • 2023 Cisco Research Award
  • 2023 Accenture Research Gift Award
  • 2023 Computing Supports from OpenAI, Cohere, Google, Amazon, and Oracle
  • 2023 UMN Early Innovation Fund
  • 2023 MnRI Seed Grant (w Karthik Desingh)
  • 2022 Grammarly Research Gift Award
  • 2022 Best paper award, In2Writing workshop at ACL
  • 2022 Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award
  • 2018 Top Reviewers, NeurIPS and ACL
  • 2018 Allen Institute for AI Research Fellowship
  • 2016 CMU Presidential Fellowship
  • 2013 SMBA Startup Investment Prize
  • 2011 ILJU Foundation Ph.D. Scholarship

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