About Me
I am a PhD candidate in Information Technology at MIT working on large language models (LLMs), metascience, and human-AI decision-making. I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Profs. Abdullah Almaatouq and Michiel Bakker.
I work on generative AI for enhancing research methods in social science, which in turn also strengthens the AI’s ability to better represent human behavior under diverse contexts. Bridging computer science and social science this way ultimately contributes to understanding and improving how decision-makers engage with scientific knowledge in the age of generative AI.
I interned with two AI research teams at Amazon during the summers of 2023 and 2024, where I led projects on social networks, LLMs, and knowledge retrieval.
Before joining MIT, I was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in language models and human cognition. I hold a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in knowledge ecology from Seoul National University.
My studies have been generously supported by scholarships with the most competitive funding in South Korea: SBS Foundation Scholarship (graduate) and the Presidential Science Scholarship in physics (undergraduate).
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I always love to interact with and learn from people with diverse perspectives. If there are any interesting research ideas you would like to discuss, please don’t hesitate to email me!
robinna[at]mit[dot]edu