Education

Ph.D./M.S in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2020)
M.S./B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2010)

Professional Background

Dongyeop Kang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2021 as an assistant professor. He received his M.S. (2010) in computer science engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and his Ph.D. (2020) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to working at the University, Kang served as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Facebook AI Research in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. He also served as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2020-21.

Teaching Subjects

• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning

Honors and Awards

2022: Grammarly Research Gift Award
2022: 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA)
2022: Best paper award, In2Writing workshop at ACL
2022: Sony Research Faculty Annotation Award 

Selected Grants
Goal-oriented Control in Language Model Decoding
Kang, D.; SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA; 9/1/22 - 8/31/23

Controlling Robot Manipulator with Language Instructions
Desingh, K, Kang, D.; MnRI Seed Grant;  02/01/23 - 01/31/24

Improving Writing Assistants with Planning and Iterative Revision
Kang, D.; Grammarly Research Gift; 11/01/22 - 10/31/23

Human-centered language technologies
Kang, D; 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) Gift; 08/01/22 - 07/31/23