Dongyeop Kang

He/Him

Assistant Professor

Contact

dongyeop@umn.edu

259 Shepherd Labs
100 Union St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Dongyeop Kang

He/Him

Assistant Professor

Research

Kang’s research group is focused on building human-centric Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems by learning from human perception, interaction with humans, and disagreements among humans. They capture human perception through survey-based explanation or eye movements, and build cognitively-inspired NLP models. They develop interactive and collaborative human-AI systems and improve productivity/creativity of scientists and creative writers. They computationally model disagreement among human annotators/speakers with different backgrounds and develop more inclusive NLP systems to learn everyone's voices.

Research Division
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Current Research
Google Scholar
Minnesota NLP group

Recent News

Dongyeop Kang Developed AI-Based Text Editing System for High-Level Writing
Meet the Faculty - Dongyeop Kang
Assistant Professor Dongyeop Kang adds NLP focus to CS&E team

Biography

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

Publications & Awards

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