Dongyeop Kang (DK) @ University of Minnesota

Dongyeop Kang (DK)

Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
259 Shepherd

Minnesota NLP

MnRI / MCAL / DSI / LIL

dongyeop@umn.edu

Students

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Teaching

CSCI5541 Natural Language Processing, F23, S23
CSCI5980 NLP with Deep Learning, F22
CSCI8980 Introduction to NLP Research, S22

I'm interested in developing human-centered language technologies. Our Minnesota NLP group's current research is focused on building human-centric NLP systems by learning from human perception, interaction, and disagreements:

Scaffold LLMs with human cognition by learning from annotated explanations, eye-tracking, feedback, or instructions
Improve productivity of scientific reading, writing, and reviewing with interactive and collaborative NLP systems
Build inclusive and individualized NLP systems by learning from disagreements among humans

Research Topics:

Interactive and collaborative NLP systems
Generation, discourse, and planning
Perception, interpretability, and styles
Diversity, data, inclusion, and bias

Publication ( By Date | By Topic | Google Scholar )

News (read more)

(Oct 2023) We are grateful to Cohere, Google, Amazon, and Oracle for their generous support of our computing needs
(Aug 2023) Excited to receive Cisco Research Award on Generative AI
(Aug 2023) Excited to receive a genrous gift from Accenture Labs
(Jun 2023) Excited to receive the UMN Early Innovation Fund
(Jun 2023) Happy to serve Area Chair at EMNLP 2023 and Senior PC at AAAI 2024
(Apr 2023) Very honored to receive 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) in 2022-2023 .
(Jan 2023) Excited to receive MnRI seed grant (PI: Desingh, Co-PI: Kang)
(Nov 2022) Our second In2Writing workshop will be held at CHI 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
(Oct 2022) Very excited to receive a generous gift from Grammarly .
(Oct 2022) Minnesota NLP seminar is back in Fall 2022!
(Jun 2022) Very honored to receive Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award .
(May 2022) Received the best paper award on human-in-the-loop interative text revision from In2Writing workshop at ACL 2022
(May 2022) At ACL 2022, our group presents two papers ( iterative text revision and human-in-the-loop interative text revision) and co-organizes Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing) workshop
(Feb 2022) Four Ph.D. students are co-organizing Minnesota NLP seminar for Spring 2022
(Nov 2021) I am co-organizing "CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision" workshop at NeurIPS 2021.
(Apr 2021) I will be joining Minnesota CSE as an assistant professor in 2021 Fall.
(Jun 2020) Joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar, working with Marti A. Hearst.
(May 2020) Passed my Ph.D thesis defense. Check out my thesis!

Talks (read more)

(Nov 2023) Talk at Thomson Reuters
(Sep 2023) Guest lecture at Penn State (host: Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang)
(Sep 2023) Talk at UMN NLP/IE group
(Aug 2023) Talk at 3M NTFA Symposium
(May 2023) Talk at Microsoft Research
(Apr 2023) Panel discussion at UMN Law, ChatGPT and the Future of AI-Assisted Professionals
(Apr 2023) Interview with UMN CS, Meet the Faculty
(Apr 2023) Interview with Echo on future of AI in classroom (GPT or GPA)
(Feb 2023) Talk at Google People+AI Research (PAIR)
(Dec 2022) Talk at Hyundai AI
(Nov 2022) Talk at NSF ROSE-HUB
(Sep 2022) Talk at 3M NTFA Symposium
(Aug 2022) Talk at Yonsei University
(Aug 2022) Talk at KAIST CS
(Aug 2022) Talk at LG AI Research
(Aug 2022) Talk at Samsung Research
(Jul 2022) Talk at Grammarly
(Jul 2022) Talk at Thomson Reuters Labs
(Mar 2022) Talk at USC ISI AI Seminar
(Feb 2022) Talk and panel discussion at CMU LTI Seminar
(Dec 2021) Talk at GaTech NLP Seminar
(Nov 2021) Talk at Minnesota Robotic Institute Colloquium
(Nov 2021) Talk at KAIST SE Colloquium
(Nov 2021) Talk at Naver Labs Europe
(Aug 2021) Talk at Grammarly AI, Aug 2021
(Aug 2021) Talk at SNU Summer AI school, Aug 2021
(March 2021) Talk at University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS Department, March 2021
(March 2021) Talk at University of Rochester, CS Department, March 2021
(March 2021) Talk at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, CSE Colloquium, March 2021
(Feb 2021) Talk at KAIST, AI Department, Feb 2021
(Nov 2020) Talk at KAIST AI Colloquium, Nov 2020
(Nov 2020) Talk at GIST EECS Colloquium, Nov 2020
(July 2020) Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop, July 2020
(July 2020) Talk at CMU LTI Seminar
(July 2020) Talk at POSTECH AI Seminar

Awards and Grants (read more)

2023 Cohere For AI Research Grant
2023 Cisco Research Award
2023 Accenture Research Gift Award
2023 Computing Supports from Google, Amazon, and Oracle
2023 UMN Early Innovation Fund
2023 MnRI Seed Grant
2022 Grammarly Research Gift Award
2022-2023 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA)
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

Services

Senior PC at AAAI 2024
Area Chair at EMNLP 2023
Co-organizer of In2Writing at ACL 2022 and CHI 2023
Co-organizer of CtrlGen at NeurIPS 2021
Program committee at ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI