MINA LEE 이민아

KFAS Fellowship 40th Term (2017)

PhD Computer Science, Stanford University, 2023

Thesis: Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction

Career Experiences

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Social Science, Microsoft Research (2023-2024)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago (2024-present)

Mina Lee is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research as well as an incoming assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago in 2024. Her research goal is to design and evaluate language models to enhance productivity and creativity and understand how these models change the way people write. She has built various writing assistants, including an autocomplete system, a contextual thesaurus system, and a creative story writing system, as well as evaluated language models based on their ability to interact with humans and augment human capabilities. She was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Korean Innovators under 35 in 2022, and her work has been published in top-tier venues in natural language processing (ACL and NAACL), machine learning (NeurIPS), and human-computer interaction (CHI). Her recent work on human-AI collaborative writing received an Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2022 and was featured in various media outlets including The Economist. Mina received her PhD from Stanford University in 2023.