Najoung Kim

[nɑːd͡​ʒʌŋ kʰɪm]

Department of Linguistics
& CS (affiliated),
Boston University

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Office 808, 665 Comm. Ave,
Boston, MA
najoung@bu.edu

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🤖 Joining the lab 🦔

Thanks for your interest in working with me! I am open to recruiting a postdoctoral fellow and/or a PhD student to join my group. More details below 👇

Postdoctoral fellows: I may have funding to host a postdoctoral fellow with flexible starting dates of Spring 2025 and Fall 2025. There is no topic or project restriction to this position, but I hope to recruit someone only if we have a strong research fit; please email me if you are interested. More generally, I am also open to writing a grant/fellowship application together, but please reach out to me earlier (at least a year before the desired start date) if you’d like to pursue this option.

PhD students: I am broadly recruiting PhD students through Linguistics, Computer Science and the Center for Data Science. If you mention my name in the application in any of these departments, I will read your application.

The Linguistics department will be a better fit for you if you are interested in scientific questions about language and/or broader Cognitive Science. If you are primarily interested in AI, I recommend applying to Computer Science (CS) or the Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), depending on your curricular interests and maybe fit with other faculty in the respective departments.

I will also be recruiting through CS & CDS, but I am primarily interested in students who either have secondary interests in CogSci/Linguistics or students whose primary interests are in model evaluation. I typically do not work with students whose interests are machine learning/artificial intelligence more generally.

Application links:

Linguistics
Computer Science
Center for Computing & Data Science


Research opportunities for BU students

Undergrads: I typically ask undergraduate students to have taken & performed well in at least one of my advanced computational courses (i.e., non-intro) before discussing research opportunities, unless you already have prior research experiences. I try to agree to supervise undergraduate research very sparingly, but feel free to reach out if you do meet one of the criteria I mentioned.

MS students: I have limited availability for MS supervision. I might agree to collaborating in rare circumstances, but similarly to undergraduates I’ll typically only agree to work with students who have taken one of my non-intro classes.

PhD students who are not my advisees: Reach out to me and we can discuss more!


Recommendation letters

If you’ve worked with me in some capacity I’d be very happy to write you a recommendation letter. But for this I ask you to kindly do the following:

Apologies in advance that I will have to decline requests that don’t follow the above instructions, and thanks for understanding!