Members

Current Members

Name Position E-mail (nlp.kaist.ac.kr) Research Interests Homepage
Jong C. Park Professor park
  • Natural language processing
  • Computational linguistics
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    Huije Lee PhD Student jae4258
  • Sign Language Translation
  • Generation for combating online abuse
  • Natural Language Generation
    • Eui Jun Hwang PhD Student ejhwang
  • Multimodal machine translation
    • Changgeon Ko MS Student pencaty
    Edyta Ołów MS Student eoplumbum
    Junmyeong Lee MS Student david516
    Seungho Cho Intern cho.seungho@kaist.ac.kr
  • Machine Learning
  • AI Ethics
  • Explainable AI
    • Archit Narumanchi Intern archit.narumanchi@kaist.ac.kr
  • Explainable AI
  • Mental health
    • Azamat Rashidov Intern azamat03@kaist.ac.kr
  • Machine translation
    • Yeokyung Chang Intern yeokyung2004@kaist.ac.kr
  • Mental illness detection
    • Sansyzbai Abai Intern abai.sansyzbai@kaist.ac.kr
  • Emotional support in LLMs
    • Su Ji Kim Staff su78@kaist.ac.kr

    Researchers

    Name Period Research Interests Affiliation
    Soo Hyun Ryu June, 2019 ~
    August, 2020
    • Psycholinguistics
    Rize Jin January, 2015 ~
    August, 2015
    • Big data
    • Data architecture
    		Ajou University
    (Assistant Professor)

    Interns

    Name Period Research Interests Affiliation
    Archit Narumanchi June, 2025 ~
    February, 2026
    • Explainable AI
    • Mental health
    Azamat Rashidov December, 2024 ~
    February, 2026
    • Machine translation
    Yeokyung Chang June, 2025 ~
    February, 2026
    • Mental illness detection
    Sansyzbai Abai September, 2025 ~
    February, 2026
    • Emotional support in LLMs
    Seungho Cho August, 2024 ~
    December, 2025
    • Machine Learning
    • AI Ethics
    • Explainable AI
    Youha Jin December, 2024 ~
    February, 2025
    Hyeyeon Kim June, 2024 ~
    December, 2024
    • Machine Learning
    Jeewoon Hong September, 2021 ~
    December, 2021
    		KAIST
    Young Ju NA February, 2021 ~
    September, 2021
    • Detection of Alzheimer’s diseases
    • Automatic Speech Recongition
    • Detection of criminals using forensic linguistics
    		Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
    Emil Gasimov August, 2021 ~
    August, 2021
    		KAIST
    Ada Carpenter November, 2018 ~
    December, 2019
    • Journalism argument analysis
    		KAIST
    Chloé Paris May, 2019 ~
    August, 2019
    • Sign language processing
    		École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS)
    Najoung Kim September, 2015 ~
    June, 2016
    • Linguistics
    		Johns Hopkins University
    (Ph.D. student)
    Umang Sehgal May, 2015 ~
    July, 2015
    • Big data in the biomedical domain
    		LNM Institute of Information Technology
    Van Nham Le June, 2014 ~
    December, 2014
    • Word segmentation
    		KAIST
    Benjamin Renoust September, 2008 ~
    July, 2009
    • Empathy in human-machine interaction
    		INA (Paris) / LaBRI (Bordeaux)
    Alok Upadhyay May, 2009 ~
    July, 2009
    • Summarization of product reviews
    		Bank of America
    Il Park May, 2004 ~
    May, 2005
    • Cytokine database
    		Stony Brook University
    (Assistant Professor)

    Alumni (PhD)

    Name Affiliation Year Research Interests
    Hoyun Song 2025
  • Mental illness detection
  • Abusive language detection
  • Transfer learning
    • Fitsum Gaim 2025
  • Machine translation
    • Hancheol Park Nota AI 2024
  • Emotion classification from dialogues
    • Jung-Ho Kim EQ4ALL 2023
  • Sign language generation
  • Korean to KSL parallel corpus
    • Jin-Woo Chung Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology 2018
  • Spatiotemporal analysis of events
  • Biomedical text mining
  • Text augmentation for people with disabilities
    • Hee-Jin Lee University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    (Postdoctoral researcher)     		2014
  • Biomedical text mining
  • Automatic inference
    • Hye-Jin Min Naver Corp. 2012
  • Identifying emotion-related pathway
  • Identifying emotional flow from Text
    • Ho-Joon Lee U1 University
    		 2010
  • Emotional spoken language generation
  • Morphology analysis
    • Hodong Lee Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology 2008
  • Natural language query
  • Biomedical text mining
  • Coordination
    • Jung-jae Kim Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
    		 2006
  • Biomedical text mining
  • Negative polarity items

    • Alumni (MS)

    Name Affiliation Year Research Interests
    SeungYoon Han 2025
    Jeong yeon Seo 2025
    Taeho Hwang 2025
    Sukmin Cho School of Computing, KAIST 2024
    Soyeong Jeong Graduate School of AI, KAIST 2024
  • Information Retrieval
  • Question Answering
  • Large Language Model
    • Jisu Shin School of Computing, KAIST 2024
  • Computational Social Science
  • Human-Model Alignment
    • KyungGeun Roh 2024
  • Sign Language Recognition
  • Multimodality
    • Aujin Kim 2024
  • Sign Language Translation (Pose to Gloss, Pose to Text)
    • Dongho Choi Standigm 2023
  • Information Retrieval
  • Abusive Language Detection
    • ChaeHun Park Graduate School of AI, KAIST 2021
  • Dialog System
    • Eugene Jang S2W 2021
  • Quoted claim detection
    • Junseop Ji NC 2021
  • Sentiment changes in natural language
    • Seungwon Yoon peoplefund 2020
  • Event extraction
    • Jinseon You 2018
  • Biomedical text mining
    • Wonsuk Yang Lawtalk 2018
  • Inference for natural language
    • Jimin Park Bluehole Studio 2017
  • Distributional Semantics
    • Joon-Yeob Kim Bluehole Studio 2014
  • Gene Normalization
    • Sang-Chae Kim NTD 2013
  • Stylometric Analysis
    • SeungJoo An LG CTO 2012
  • Role identification
  • Plan identification
    • Eunyoung Chang NHN Entertainment 2010
  • Temporal Relations
  • Text Animation
    • Yoonjae Choi Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
  • Melody Extraction
    • Seung-Cheol Baek Agency for Defense Development
    (ADD)     		2009
  • Biomedical Text Mining
  • Ontology Construction
    • Sangha Kim Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology 2008
  • Sign Language Generation
    • Doojin Park Google Korea 2007
  • Text Animation with Music
    • Ji-yong Jung 5rocks 2006
  • Information Visualization
    • Chan-Goo Kang Venture 2006
  • Automatic Gene Summary Generation
    • Semin Jang Samsung Electronics 2004
  • Digital Cinematography
    • Kyung Wha Hong NC State University (Ph.D., 2014)
    Samsung Electronics     		2004
  • Text Animation
  • Anaphora Resolution
    • Changsu Lee 5rocks
    (CEO)     		2004
  • Information Visualization
  • Knowledge Discovery
    • Jiwon Choi Samsung Electronics 2004
  • Sign Language Generation
    • Hwa Jin Lee ParkingCloud (CSO) 2002
  • Intonation Generation
    • O Shik Kwon Samsung Electronics 2002
  • Honorifics
    • Hyun Sook Kim KT 2002
  • Text Animation
    • Jin-Bok Lee WoowaBrothers 2001
  • Automatic Ontology Extension
  • Quantifier Floating
    • Hyung-joon Cho KT 2000
  • Coordination