Welcome to the Minnesota NLP group! Minnesota NLP is a research group led by Dongyeop Kang (DK) in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Our group aims to develop human-centered language technologies. We are an inter-disciplinary team drawing theories from linguistics, social sciences, and cognitive sciences, developing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, and making NLP systems to be more interactive and collaborative.

Recent Highlights

• (Jan 2025) James Mooney won the Amazon MLSys Fellowship for 2025-2026. He works on algorithmic and agentic efficiency.
• (Nov 2024) We are very grateful to invite Prof. Noah Smith as Cray Speaker series. Thank you for your wonderful talk and discussion, Noah!
• (Aug 2024) Our alumni (visiting phd), Jaehyung Kim, completed his postdoc at CMU and started faculty position in Yonsei Univeristy. Congratulations, JK! Please contact him if you are interested in LLM alignment, adaptation (e.g., personalization), and development
• (May 2024) Our PhD students will be interning in different places over summer: Debarati Das at Microsoft Research, Zae Myung Kim at Amazon AGI, Shirley Anugrah Hayati at Amazon AGI, James Mooney at Grammarly Research, and Risako Owan at Intuit AI.
• (May 2024) Congratulations, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Zae Myung Kimfor passing written and oral preliminary exams!
• (May 2024) Congratulations to our new graduates: Amrutha Shetty (Masters), Aahan Tyagi (Masters), Ritik Parkar (Masters), Jong Inn Park (Masters), and London Lowmanstone (Masters)!
• (Apr 2024) Amrutha Shetty's work is highlighted on the department website: CSpotlight: Learning The Wonders of Data Science
• (Apr 2024) DK's NLP course holds final presentations (Group A, Group B).
• (Apr 2024) Karin de Langis won the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
• (Apr 2024) Debarati Das passed her thesis proposal and will now be working on a mental health assistant project!
• (Mar 2024) Zae Myung Kim is co-organizing the running of Textgroup, a reading group and academic community for people broadly interested in language.
• (Mar 2024) Some of our recent work on writing assistant, human-vs-AI writing, and expert-level AI are featured in UMN CS
• (Feb 2024) We had our first escape room lab event! (pic)
• (Jan 2024) Ryan Koo Earns Honorable Mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
• (Jan 2024) We submitted our first lab-wide project, Under the Surface: Tracking the Artifactuality of LLM-Generated Data, to arxiv!
• (Oct 2023) Jaehyung Kim (our visiting PhD student) got a postdoc offer from CMU LTI!