Scholar
Najoung Kim
Google Scholar ID: Uod-_B8AAAAJ
Boston University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,995
H-index
21
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
5
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers on arXiv such as 'RExBench: Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions?' and 'Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It'; Involved in several research projects, including a MassMutual-supported study on the mechanistic understanding of reasoning/explanations in entity tracking; Delivered keynote talks at various academic conferences.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and affiliated faculty at the Department of Computer Science, Boston University; Former Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University; Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google DeepMind; Internships at IBM Research and NAVER Corporation; Visiting researcher at NLP*CL Lab, School of Computing, KAIST.
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University (advised by Dr. Paul Smolensky and Dr. Kyle Rawlins); M.St. General Linguistics & Comparative Philology, University of Oxford (Ertegun scholar); B.A. English Linguistics & Literature, B.A. Linguistics with minor in Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University.
Background
- Research interests include meaning and generalization in human and machine learners. Uses computational and experimental linguistic methodologies to explore these areas.
Miscellany
- Has a dedicated 'For students' section on the personal website; Recently attended a Dagstuhl seminar; Gave a keynote talk on multimodal AI critiques at the SAGE-MLU workshop in Amsterdam.
