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MacArthur Fellow (2022) and one of the leading researchers in commonsense reasoning for AI. Named to TIME100 AI 2025 and AI2050 Senior Fellow (2024). Moved from the University of Washington to Stanford in 2025 as Senior Fellow at Stanford HAI. Her work on teaching machines commonsense knowledge and moral reasoning has shaped how the field thinks about language understanding beyond pattern matching.
BS, Computer Engineering — Seoul National University
PhD, Computer Science — Cornell University
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Advocates for building AI systems that understand human values and commonsense norms. Concerned about the gap between language fluency and actual understanding in LLMs.
Advocates for building AI systems that understand human values and commonsense norms. Concerned about the gap between language fluency and actual understanding in LLMs.
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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10