Dongyeop Kang

Dongyeop Kang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & EngineeringEducation
- 2011, 2015 - 2020: PH.D / M.S. in Computer Science — Carnegie Mellon University (Dissertation: Linguistically Informed Language Generation: A Multifaceted Approach_
- 2010: M.S. / B.S. in Computer Science Engineering— Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Professional Background
- 2021: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
- 2020 - 2021: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California - Berkeley
- 2015 - 2020: Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2018: Research Intern, Facebook AI Research
- 2017: Research Intern, Allen Institute for Artificial Intellegence
- 2016: Research Intern, Microsoft Research
- 2014 - 2015: Assistant Manager, Naver Labs
- 2012 - 2014: Researcher, KAIST Institute
- 2013: Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research
- 2011: Research Assistant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- 2010: Research Intern, Microsoft Research
- 2009 - 2010: Research Assistant, Microsoft Research Asia
Kang is interested in developing human-centered language technologies. His research is focused on developing interdisciplinary methods for natural language processing (NLP) models and building interactive NLP systems for scientists and creative writers.
Honors and Awards
- 2018: Top Reviewers, NeurIPS 2018 and ACL 2018
- 2018: Allen Institute for AI Research Fellowship, Full tuition + stipend
- 2016-2017: CMU Presidential Fellowship, Full tuition + stipend
- 2011-2016: ILJU Foundation Scholarship, Ph.D Fellowship
- 2013: SMBA Startup Investment Prize, 100k USD for one year of support
- 2010: Excellent Performance Award, Microsoft Research Asia
- 2007: Summa Cum Laude, 1st place in CSE dept. KAIS
Selected Publications
Unsupervised Natural Language Video Localization, Jinwoo Nam, Daechul Ahn, Dongyeop Kang, Seong Jong Ha, Jonghyun Choi, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021 (Oral, 3%)
Style is NOT a single variable: Case Studies for Cross-Stylistic Language Understanding, Dongyeop Kang, Eduard Hovy, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021
Augmenting Scientific Papers with Just-in-Time, Position-Sensitive Definitions of Terms and Symbols, Andrew Head, Kyle Lo, Dongyeop Kang, Raymond Fok, Sam Skjonsberg, Daniel S. Weld, Marti A. Hearst, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021
GenAug: Data Augmentation for Finetuning Text Generators, Steven Y. Feng*, Varun Gangal*, Dongyeop Kang, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy, Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO) Workshop at EMNLP 2020
Document-Level Definition Detection in Scholarly Documents: Existing Models, Error Analyses„ Future Directions, Dongyeop Kang Andrew Head, Risham Sidhu, Kyle Lo, Daniel Weld, Marti A. Hearst , Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) at EMNLP 2020
Plan ahead: Self-Supervised Text Planning for Paragraph Completion Task, Dongyeop Kang, Eduard Hovy, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
INSPIRED: Toward Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems , Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang, Qingxiaoyang Zhu, We
Linguistically Informed Language Generation: A Multifaceted Approach , Dongyeop Kang, Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University (Committee: Eduard Hovy, Jeffrey Bigham, Alan W Black, Jason Weston, Dan Jurafsky