Dongyeop Kang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he leads the Minnesota NLP group developing human-centered language technologies, focusing on cognitively aligning human and machine thinking. His research involves developing cognitively-informed AI models to aid expert thinking process and embrace people's diverse perspectives. He received his Ph.D. on natural language generation in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University under Eduard Hovy, and completed postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley with Marti A. Hearst. His work has been recognized with awards including the Open Philanthropy Award, Grammarly Research Gift Award, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA), Cisco Research Award, Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award, NSF NAIRR Pilot Award, and the Best Paper Award at the In2Writing workshop at ACL 2022. He co-founded and -organized workshops such as In2Writing, CtrlGen, and Pluralistic Alignment.