I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Yejin Choi at NVIDIA. Previously, I was a Young Investigator and an intern at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Seoul National University, advised by Gunhee Kim.

My research goal is to enhance machine's ability to reason and process social information, such as theory of mind, and to develop systems that are socially competent and responsible. To achieve this, I explore two key directions: optimizing inference-time algorithms to make the most of existing models, and synthesizing large-scale data to address areas where models currently fall short. Additionally, I am interested in taking an interdisciplinary approach to my research, bridging AI and cognitive science. In particular, I like to distill insights from human development and cognition into models for social reasoning.