Yewon Kim
Human-AI interaction and AI creativity support tools are my primary research interests. I explore how AI can empower human creativity by building systems that support iterative and interactive human-AI co-creation processes. My work has mainly centered on tools for music 🎵 and writing 📚.
News
| May. 2025 | 🌷 Paper accepted at DIS 2025 |
| Apr. 2025 | 🏆 Amuse won the Best Paper Award (top 1%) at CHI 2025! |
| Apr. 2025 | ✈️ Attending CHI 2025 @ Yokohama, Japan (Apr 25 - May 2) |
| Mar. 2025 | 💖 I'll be joining CMU as a PhD student in Fall 2025! |
| Jan. 2025 | 🌷 Paper accepted at CHI 2025 |
| Apr. 2024 | 👩🏻💻 Visiting research at CMU @ Pittsburgh, PA (Apr - Sep) |
| Jan. 2024 | 🌷 Paper accepted at CHI 2024 |
| Oct. 2023 | ✈️ UbiComp/ISWC 2023 @ Cancun, Mexico (Oct 8 - 12) |
Research
Amuse: Human-AI Collaborative Songwriting with Multimodal Inspirations
CHI 2025
Best Paper Award (Top 1%)
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Design Opportunities for Explainable AI Paraphrasing Tools: A User Study with Non-native English Speakers
†Equal senior role
DIS 2025
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Hookpad Aria: A Copilot for Songwriters
ISMIR Late Breaking Demos 2024
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Poster
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A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
CHI 2024
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Towards Explainable AI Writing Assistants for Non-native English Speakers
CHI 2023 Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
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Tailoring Interactions: Exploring the Opportune Moment for Remote Computer-mediated Interactions with Home-alone Dogs
CHI Extended Abstracts 2023
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SoTTA: Robust Test-Time Adaptation on Noisy Data Streams
*Equal contribution
NeurIPS 2023
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DAPPER: Label-Free Performance Estimation after Personalization for Heterogeneous Mobile Sensing
IMWUT (UbiComp) 2023
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NOTE: Robust Continual Test-time Adaptation Against Temporal Correlation
NeurIPS 2022
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist
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Honors
Best Paper Award (top 1%), ACM CHI 2025
Paper Title: "Amuse: Human-AI Collaborative Songwriting with Multimodal Inspirations"
Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews
CHI 2024
CVPR 2023 Art Gallery
Works accepted to CVPR 2023 Art Gallery have been shown as part of a series of looping videos that played on displays throughout the conference.
NMSL Labmate of the Year
I was awarded the Labmate of the Year (2022) by our lab members for demonstrating exceptional qualities in teamwork, leadership, and dedication to our lab's success! Comments can be found here :)
Students with Outstanding Questions
In recognition of the students who asked challenging and creative questions during lectures. KAIST, Jul. 2022
Graduate of the Year Award (KAIST Alumni Association Chairperson's Prize)
Honor for top 5 (0.7%) out of 695 students, who demonstrated outstanding performances
in various activities as well as in grades. Awarded at the commencement ceremony. KAIST, Feb. 2022
Engineering Innovator Award
In recognition of the outstanding engineering accomplishments. KAIST College of Engineering, Sep. 2021
Grand Prix Prize in Undergraduate Research Participation Program
DAPPER: Training-Free Domain Adaptation Performance Estimation in Mobile Sensing. KAIST, Aug. 2021
National Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship
Merit-based scholarship awarded by Korea Student Aid Foundation. Fall 2020
Department Honors Scholarship
Awarded to top 3 (0.4%) out of 800+ students in School of Electrical Engineering. Salutatorian. KAIST, Spring 2020
Dean's List
Awarded to top 3% among 2,900+ students in College of Engineering. KAIST, Spring 2020
Leadership Mileage Certificate
Honor for top 3% among 3,600+ students with top achievements in leadership activities including volunteering and campus activities. KAIST, 2020
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