Takyoung Kim

Our DuplexGen has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 → Selected as an oral presentation.

Check out our new preprint, DuplexGen! We explore how to simulate scenario-specific turn-taking behaviors in full-duplex communication.

Our work on Diagnostic Framework for Interactive Agents has been accepted to IEEE TASLP Journal.

Our work on Segment-based Topic Assignment has been accepted to Findings of ACL 2026.

I passed the qual exam titled “Seamless Spoken Interaction with AI Companions: Naturalness and Efficiency.” Now I’m officially a PhD candidate!

I will join Meta Superintelligence Labs as a Research Scientist Intern from Summer 2026!

Our work on Conversational Error Recovery has been accepted to ICLR 2026. See you in Rio 🇧🇷

I’m participating MSLD 2026 as a student organizer (Apr 15-16)! We appreciate your participation if you are studying in midwest area.

Our work on User Simulator Alignment has been accepted to TACL.

I will attend TTIC Summer Workshop on Foundations of Speech and Audio Foundation Models to present my ongoing project on full-duplex conversations.

Our Multi-Level TOD Evaluation paper has been accepted to SIGDIAL 2025 as an oral presentation.

Our Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chain paper has been accepted to ICML 2025.

I will attend Midwest Speech and Language Days to present my ongoing project.

I will serve as on-site student volunteer at NAACL 2025. Come say hello!👋

Our Coverage-Conditioned Query Outline for RAG paper has been accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025. See you in Albuquerque 🇺🇸

Excited to accept an Applied Scientist Internship offer at Amazon from Summer 2025!

Our Bias Analysis in Deployed TOD Systems paper has been accepted to NLP4ConvAI Workshop @ ACL 2024 as an oral presentation. See you in Bangkok 🇹🇭 → Update: Our work has been awarded as Best Paper!🏆

Life update! I will start my Ph.D. journey at UIUC Computer Science starting from Fall 2024.

Our Entity Adaptive DST paper has been accepted to Knowledge-Based Systems Journal.

Our Entity Adaptive DST paper has been accepted to Knowledge NLP Workshop @ KDD 2023.

Our two papers have been accepted to ACL 2023 - Korean Sensitive QA Benchmark as an oral presentation and Korean Bias Benchmark as Industry Track, respectively.

Excited to join LG AI Research as a Research Intern!

Our DST with Turnback paper has been accepted to SereTOD Workshop @ EMNLP 2022.

Graduated from Korea University.

Excited to join NAVER AI Lab as a Research Intern!

Our Multi-turn DST Evaluation paper has been accepted to ACL 2022. See you in Dublin 🇮🇪

Started Master’s degree at Korea University.

Graduated from Sungkyunkwan University.

Started undergraduate internship at Korea University.