Scholar
Takyoung Kim
Google Scholar ID: uf1yPNkAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
101
H-index
4
i10-index
3
Publications
13
Co-authors
16
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. User Simulator Alignment paper accepted to TACL (Sep 2025)
- 2. Multi-Level TOD Evaluation paper accepted to SIGDIAL 2025 as an oral presentation (Jul 2025)
- 3. Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chain paper accepted to ICML 2025 (May 2025)
- 4. Coverage-Conditioned Query Outline for RAG paper accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025 (Jan 2025)
- 5. Bias Analysis in Deployed TOD Systems paper accepted to NLP4ConvAI Workshop @ ACL 2024 as an oral presentation and awarded Best Paper (Jun 2024)
- 6. Entity Adaptive DST paper accepted to Knowledge-Based Systems Journal (Feb 2024)
- 7. Entity Adaptive DST paper accepted to Knowledge NLP Workshop @ KDD 2023 (Jun 2023)
- 8. Two papers accepted to ACL 2023 - Korean Sensitive QA Benchmark as an oral presentation and Korean Bias Benchmark as Industry Track (May 2023)
- 9. DST with Turnback paper accepted to SereTOD Workshop @ EMNLP 2022 (Oct 2022)
- 10. Multi-turn DST Evaluation paper accepted to ACL 2022 (Feb 2022)
Research Experience
- 1. Amazon - Applied Scientist Intern at Alexa AI (May 2025 - August 2025), Mentors: Jinseok Nam, Chandrayee Basu, Chengyuan Ma
- 2. LG AI Research - Research Scientist Intern at Advanced Machine Learning Lab (April 2023 - March 2024), Mentors: Kyungjae Lee, Moontae Lee
- 3. NAVER AI Lab - Research Scientist Intern at Language Research Team (July 2022 - January 2023), Mentor: Sungdong Kim
Education
- 1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Ph.D. in Computer Science (August 2024 - Present), Advisor: Prof. Dilek Hakkani-Tür
- 2. Korea University - Master of Engineering in Industrial Management Engineering (September 2020 - August 2022), Advisor: Prof. Pilsung Kang
- 3. Sungkyunkwan University - Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Interdisciplinary Program of Convergent Software and Bachelor of Media & Communication (March 2013 - August 2020)
Background
- Main research interest lies in solving problems related to human-machine communication in real-world settings. Particularly interested in building conversational agents that can interact beyond the textual domain, understand social nuances, and provide personalized assistance.
Miscellany
- Contact: tk30 [at] illinois [dot] edu
- Other links: CV, GitHub, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, X
