Dongyeop Kang (DK)
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
259 Shepherd
Minnesota NLP
dongyeop@umn.edu
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
259 Shepherd
Minnesota NLP
dongyeop@umn.edu
I'm interested in developing human-centered AI systems.
My primary goal is to understanding and harnessing the capabilities and risks of LLMs, and better use them for the benefit of human, society, and experts.
My group's current research is focused on building human-centric NLP systems by learning from human perception, societal values, and interaction with experts:
- Cognitive Scaffolding LLMs: Collect different types of human cognition signals from explanations, eye-tracking, feedback, or instructions, and develop cognitively-inspired AI models that are capable of planning and complex reasoning.
- Pushing toward the expert-level AI: Develop interactive systems to facilitate productive and creative collaboration with human experts like scientists, lawyers, and teachers, and create complex, compositional, and domain-specific expert-level benchmarks
- Societal Alignment with Pluralistic People Values: Develop inclusive NLP systems that align with diverse and subjective perspectives, and develop pluralistic representation, alignment models, and evaluation of AI systems.
Research Topics:
Publication ( By Date | By Topic | Google Scholar )
Writing
(AI or/and Human) Writing, Discourse, Planning
Alignment
Societal Alignment, Diversity Modeling, Personalization
Interaction
Interactive and Collaborative AI systems
Cognition
Perception, Interpretability, Styles
Others
- (Mar 2024) Some of our recent work on writing assistant are featured in UMN CS (link)
- (Dec 2023) Excited to receive a grant from UMN CTSI for the development of AI Assistant for Non-English Speaking Clinical Trial Partipants (/w Needle and Fischer)
- (Dec 2023) Thrid In2Writing workshop (focused on "Dark Sides: Envisioning, Understanding, and Preventing Harmful Effects of Writing Assistants") will be held at CHI 2024 in Hawaii.
- (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 UMN DSI Seed Grant (w Mingyi Hong)
- 2023 UMN CTSI Grant (/w Needle and 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
- 2022-2023 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 (read more)
- Steering committee, Workshop on Customizable NLP (CustomNLP4U)
- Senior PC at AAAI 2024
- Area Chair at EMNLP 2023
- Co-organizer of In2Writing at ACL 2022, CHI 2023, and CHI 2024
- Co-organizer of CtrlGen at NeurIPS 2021
- Program committee at ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI