Migyeong Kang

Education

Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea (Mar 2021 – Present)

• Ph.D Candidate in Applied Artificial Intelligence

• Advisor: Prof. Jinyoung Han

Sungshin Women's University, Republic of Korea  (Mar 2016 – Feb 2021)

• Bachelor of Science in Statistics

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Software

Professional Experience

University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA (Sep 2024 - Mar 2025)

• Visiting Scholar in Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

• Advisor: Prof. Haewoon Kwak, Prof Jisun An

Publication

(* = (co-)corresponding author, ** = equal contributions) 

[ Ongoing Research ]

• SCENE: A Scenario Completion Benchmark for Measuring Social Bias in Large Language Models - Kang, M.**, Jung, A.**, Jang, E.**, Kim, M., Sundar, S. S., Hong, S., Choi, Y., & Han, J. (In Preparation)

• Same Symptoms, Different Diagnosis?: Investigating Gendered Cue Effects on LLMs in Depression Severity Assessment - Kang, M.**, Yang, S.**, Kim, M., Kwak, H., An, J., & Han, J. (In Preparation) 

[ Conference & Journals ] 

• MentalBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Psychiatric Diagnostic Capability of Large Language Models - Song, H.**, Kang, M.**, Shin, J., Kim, J., Park, C., Yoo, H., An, J., Oh, A., Han, J., & Lim, K. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12871, Under Review (ACL ARR January 2026)

• Using LLM for Conversational Assessment of Mental Health: Testing the Role of Message Contingency and User Agency., Kim, D.**, Ju, S.**, Lee, H., Kang, M., … & Han, J*.  In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI Poster 2026- accepted)

• SynSym: A Synthetic Data Generation Framework for Psychiatric Symptom Identification  - Kang, M., Kim, J., Jeon, H., Hwang, S., … & Han, J*.  In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026 - accepted)

• Somatic in the East, Psychological in the West?: Investigating Clinically-Grounded Cross-Cultural Depression Symptom Expression in LLMs - Sakai, S., An, J., Kang, M., & Kwak, H. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03247, (arXiv, 2025) 

• A Meta-Frontier Analysis of the Impact of CEO Education on the Performance of Software Startups  - Lee, C.**, Kang, M.**, & Lee, D. 한국혁신학회지, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 275-289, (한국혁신학회지 2025) 

• Show your Mind: Unveiling User Experience on an AI-based Mental Health Assessment System with Symptom-based Evidences - Won, H.**, Kang, M.**, Kim, M., Lee, D., Choi, H., Kim, Y., … & Han, J*.  In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2025)

• CURE: Context- and Uncertainty Aware Mental Disorder Detection - Kang, M., Choi, G., Jeon, H., An, J., Choi, D.*, Han, J.* Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024)

• Poster: ISOML: Inter-Service Online Meta-Learning for Newly Emerging Network Traffic Prediction - Kang, M.**, Jung, J.**, Cho, M., Choi, D., Park, E., Pack, S., Han, J*. The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM Mobisys 2024)

• Network Data Generation using IP2Vec Embedding - Kim, M., Kang, M., Park, E., Pack, S., & Han, J.* IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2023)

• Detecting depression on video logs using audiovisual features - Min, K., Yoon, J., Kang, M., Lee, D., Park, E., & Han, J.* Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10, 788 (SSCI, JCR 2022 IF=3.5) (HSSComms 2023)

• Detecting Suicide Risks with a Contextual Graph Neural Network - Lee, D., Kang, M., Kim, M., & Han, J.* The 8th Workshop on Computational Linguistics & Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2022)

[ Domestic Conference ] 

• Cognitive Distortion Detection Based on Cognitive Structure Signatures - Kim, M., Kang, M., Sundar, S. S., & Han, J. The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS 2025)

• Debiasing Gender Bias in Large Language Models for Depression Detection - Yang, S., Kang, M., Sundar, S. S., & Han, J. The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences  (KICS 2025)

• A Study on an LLM-Based Conversational Chatbot for PHQ-9-Based Depression Self-Assessment - Ju, S., Kang, M., Kim, D., Sundar, S. S., & Han, J. The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS 2025)

• A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Human Preference Alignment in Large Language Models - Kang, M., Cho, M., Ju, S., Yang, S., Kang, C., Won, H., Jeong, S., Choi, G., Han, J*. Korea Computer Congress (KCC 2025)

• Hey GPT, Can You Tell What's Stressing Me Out? Comparing LLM's Ability to Detect Stress with Traditional ML Models - Choi, G.**, Kang, M., Han, J.*, and S. Shyam Sundar. The Korean Artificial Intelligence Association Fall Conference (KAIA 2024)

• Performance Analysis on Generative Adversarial Models based on Network Data - Kim, M.**, Kang, M., Park, E., Pack, S., & Han, J.* The 33rd Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI 2023)

• Toward Natural and Intelligible Speech Synthesis: An Empirical Study on Transfer Learning." Kang, C.**, Yoon, J., Lee, D., Kang, M., Lim, S., Jung, J., Son, Sejung, Han, J.* The Korean Institute of Broadcast and Media Engineers Conference Proceedings Jul. (KIBME, 2023)

• Developing Depression Detection Model using Social Media Video Data - Min, K.**, Kang, M., Yoon, J., Lee, D., & Han, J.* The 32nd Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI 2022)

Professional Service

[May 2025] Program Committee Member, 2025 Bias-A-Thon: Bias Discovery Challenge, Dacon

• Supported problem formulation and reviewed submitted solutions for bias detection models

Honors & Awards

[Jun 2024] ACM MobiSys 2024 Student Travel Award ($1000) 

• The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

[Aug 2025] 2nd Prize, Best Student Researcher Award, Sungkyunkwan University

• Department of Artificial Intelligence, College of Global Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University