Najoung Kim 🫠
@najoungkim
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At @BULinguistics, previously @GoogleDeepmind. Human & machine CogSci 🤖🔠🐱
Joined July 2018
My lab at BU is recruiting PhD students and possibly a postdoc this year! We study humans & machines, centered around topics like meaning, generalization, evaluation methods and design, and the nature of computation and representation that underlie language and cognition. 🫴🫴
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torn between visiting somewhere vs. hermitting and trying to become renaissance man during my sabbatical
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the slides are kanishka's thread but if you are interested in the non-cut-down version of the first half here it is:
@weGotlieb Here are the slides: https://t.co/cAGWqaw9le For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language". If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
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happy to have finally made a pilgrimage to ucsd, a special place for some of us :)
@najoungkim and I did a side quest during NeurIPS and gave a joint talk at UCSD on our thoughts about the role of NNs/LLMs in Human CogSci! Thanks @a_stadt and Rachel Dudley for hosting us! Catch our slides here: https://t.co/0m1PrkNXtG
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special thanks to my 10+ cognition bros who emerged from the darkness
sad that no one brought up cognition yet where are my cognition bros at
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one of my goals of going to confs is to recharge motivation to do stuff and it has been somewhat achieved thanks to cool people and tacos! now to actually doing stuff hopefully!
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making the mistake of attending talks that sound interesting to me once again, every time i go to a conference i forget
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https://t.co/XvKylIjKtB this is being presented
Does vision training change how language is represented and used in meaningful ways?🤔 The answer is a nuanced yes! Comparing VLM-LM minimal pairs, we find that while the taxonomic organization of the lexicon is similar, VLMs are better at _deploying_ this knowledge. [1/9]
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come talk to @yulu_qin @kanishkamisra & me!
Excited to be at Neurips this week! Come by Exhibition Hall C (#2010) today from 4:30–7:30 to see our poster — would love to hear your thoughts!
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sad that no one brought up cognition yet where are my cognition bros at
flying to neurips and will mostly be doing hallway track! excited about san diego! catch me if you see me 🐸👁
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Come ask yulu, @najoungkim and me about a rare context where VL training helps rather than hurts linguistic/conceptual behavior!
Excited to be at Neurips this week! Come by Exhibition Hall C (#2010) today from 4:30–7:30 to see our poster — would love to hear your thoughts!
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Excited to be at Neurips this week! Come by Exhibition Hall C (#2010) today from 4:30–7:30 to see our poster — would love to hear your thoughts!
I’ll be at NeurIPS this week spending time at the hallway track (most of conf), the poster session on Wednesday, and later at the workshops! @yulu_qin will be presenting our paper ( https://t.co/eiU00dHgVO) in the Weds. poster session!
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if you are shy or dont know what to say you can pick either cognition or cats (or which of these you prefer) - students welcome!!
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flying to neurips and will mostly be doing hallway track! excited about san diego! catch me if you see me 🐸👁
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by the way you don't need to email me to simply express interest (of course if there are special circumstances, you should)! if you mention my name in the application, I will make sure to read it 👁
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I am recruiting students at TTIC! Apply by Dec 9
Pursue a fully-funded and personalized PhD in #computerscience with world-class faculty as mentors, a 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio, and in the vibrant city of Chicago. Learn more and apply by Dec. 9 (NO FEE): https://t.co/G8amDmAjFv
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⏰Just one week left to apply to join @PurdueCS as a PhD student in Fall 2026! ⏰ If you're interested in joining my lab and doing research on machines that think *with* people rather than *instead of* people, apply now!
Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @PurdueCS as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! My lab will work on AI thought partners, machines that think with people rather than instead of people – I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle so reach out & apply if interested!
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You can get more info on my research interests on my website: https://t.co/RcYNIvYLPC And some of the bigger picture thoughts that might not be evident from individual publications here:
@weGotlieb Here are the slides: https://t.co/cAGWqaw9le For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language". If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
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I also want to mention that the lang x computation research community at BU is growing in an exciting direction, especially with new faculty like @amuuueller, Anthony Yacovone, @nsaphra, & Sophie Hao! Also, Boston is quite nice :)
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I'm recruiting through Linguistics (Deadline: Jan 7), CS & CDS (Deadlines: Dec 15). Find more info here:
najoung.kim
BU Linguistics / CS
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