I am a Language Scientist and Engineer bridging Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Natural Language Processing.

I am currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where I teach courses ranging from introductory Psycholinguistics and Linguistics to more advanced courses such as Experimental and Computational Methods in Language Science Research.

The central questions guiding my work are: (i) How do humans perceive nuance and naturalness in conversations, and what cognitive processes underlie these judgments in real time? (ii) How can we design evaluation frameworks for conversational AI so that they reflect the fine-grained human intuition on conversations? To address these questions, I combine NLP techniques and model analyses with linguistic theory and human behavioral experiments using reading and eye-tracking methods.

Previously, I completed my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago, where I was part of Computational Linguistics Lab and Language Processing Lab. I also worked with Ming Xiang and Allyson Ettinger.

Contact: sangheekim [at] uchicago [dot] edu | Office: Rosenwald 205F | Github | Google Scholar | OSF
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