Namyoung Kim ☕️

Namyoung Kim

Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence

Language & AGI Lab, Yonsei University

Summary

Hello! I’m a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Yonsei University, advised by Prof. Jinyoung Yeo. My research interests include AI/LLM agents, conversational AI, and memory for AI agents. Feel free to reach out!

Research Interests

Large Language Models AI/LLM Agents Conversational AI Memory for AI Agents
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News

Dec 23, 2025
I received the 2025 National Science & Engineering Scholarship by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT!
Sep 16, 2025
I presented our paper "Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation" as a poster at 2025 Korea Day @ Microsoft Research Asia!
Aug 21, 2025
Our paper "PRINCIPLES: Synthetic Strategy Memory for Proactive Dialogue Agents" has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings!
Jan 23, 2025
Our paper "Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management" has been accepted to NAACL 2025!
Apr 16, 2024
I joined Language and AGI Lab as a Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Jinyoung Yeo!

Publications

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(* denotes equal contribution)

EMNLP Findings • 2025 Paper Code Project

PRINCIPLES: Synthetic Strategy Memory for Proactive Dialogue Agents

Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Yeonjun Hwang, Minseok Kang, Iiseo Jihn, Gayoung Kim, Minju Kim, Jinyoung Yeo

ACL Findings • 2025 Paper

Can You Share Your Story? Modeling Clients' Metacognition and Openness for LLM Therapist Evaluation

Minju Kim, Dongje Yoo, Yeonjun Hwang, Minseok Kang, Namyoung Kim, Minju Gwak, Beong-woo Kwak, Hyungjoo Chae, Harim Kim, Yunjoong Lee, Min Hee Kim, Dayi Jung, Kyong-Mee Chung, Jinyoung Yeo

Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management

Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Namyoung Kim*, Minju Gwak, Hyungjoo Chae, Taeyoon Kwon, Yohan Jo, Seung-won Hwang, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo

Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation

Hyungjoo Chae, Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Minju Gwak, Gwanwoo Song, Jihoon Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo

Arxiv Preprint • 2024 Paper

YA-TA: Towards Personalized Question-Answering Teaching Assistants using Instructor-Student Dual Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Fusion

Dongil Yang, Suyeon Lee, Minjin Kim, Jungsoo Won, Namyoung Kim, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo

Experience

Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University

Mar 2024 – Present

Ph.D. student at Language & AGI Lab, supervised by Prof. Jinyoung Yeo

Tutoring, Market Designers Inc.

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

NLP Researcher

School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University

Mar 2016 – Feb 2022

B.S. in Electronics Engineering