Takyoung Kim
Graduate Research Assistant
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTakyoung Kim is a conversational AI researcher and PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focused on improving turn-taking dynamics in human-AI spoken interactions, with eight years of applied research experience across industry and academia. He has held research and intern roles at NAVER, LG AI Research, Amazon Alexa, and Korea University, bringing practical product-minded perspectives to dialogue systems. Mentored by leaders in the field and active in university labs, he blends signal-level engineering with human-centered conversation design. His work reflects cross-disciplinary training in software, media, and industrial engineering, and his GitHub motto 格物致知 hints at a methodical, inquiry-driven approach to understanding systems from first principles.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Industrial Management Engineering, Master of Engineering, Industrial Management Engineering at Korea UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science in Engineering, Interdisciplinary Program of Convergent Software, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Interdisciplinary Program of Convergent Software at Sungkyunkwan University
Korean, English
Github Skills (32)
dst9
react8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
model-compression8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
lightning8
lifecycle8
data-science7
scaling7
infrastructure7
ai7
planning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
youngerous/code-snippet
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
youngerous/skku_introduction_page
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
성균관대학교 멋쟁이사자처럼 공식 홍보 페이지입니다.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
react
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