Nayeon KimΒ
"Don't forget you are the only person who can measure your value."
Research Interest π
Computational Linguistics, Korean Natural Language Processing, Commonsense Reasoning, Interdisciplinary studies in the humanities, psychology, and social sciences
Humans and AI π€
Insight, creativity, and humanity are my core values. I believe that the essence of artificial intelligence is to think about how AI can benefit people. Based on this belief, I am working on language AI that can understand human society and culture and improve human beings.
Education π«
β Korea University (2021 β Current)
Integrated MS / Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering
Data Intelligence Lab (Advisor: SangKeun Lee)
β Kyungpook National University (2010 - 2015)
B.A. in Korean Language and Literature
Honors and Awards π
Ph.D. fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea, Senior ResearcherΒ
(2023. 09 - 2025. 08)
Research Challenge Program from Korea University BK21Β
(2024. 08 - 2025. 02)
Junior Fellow-Research Grant from Korea University, Senior Researcher
(2024. 03 - 2024. 12)
Research Challenge Program from Korea University BK21Β
(2023. 08 - 2024. 02)
Publications π
International Conference (*: Equal contribution)
*Sungho Kim, *Nayeon Kim, et al., Polishing Every Facet of the GEM: Testing Linguistic Competence of LLMs and Humans in Korean, ACL 2025 (Main)
*Nayeon Kim, *Eojin Jeon et al., Handling Korean OOV Words with Phoneme Representation Learning, PAKDD 2025 (Main, Oral)
*Nayeon Kim, *Jun-Hyung Park et al., Break it Down into BTS: Basic, Tiniest Subword Units for Korean, EMNLP 2022 (Main)
Skills π§β
Python / CΒ
Languages π£οΈ
KOREAN: You can ask me everything about Korean. I am a native. (AL)
ENGLISH: I can understand the most of English, but struggle to speak and write fluently. (IH)
FRENCH: Β I can introduce myself in French! But not much more than that. (A2)Β
CHINESE: I speak Chinese at a level where I can be friends with you. (IM1)Β
Strengths πͺ
Humanity π₯°, Creative π§, Challenging π, Passionate π
Contact Info.
Email π
: lilian1208@korea.ac.krΒ
Location π
: Seoul, Republic of Korea