Sewon Min


Contact Information

8058 Berkeley Way West

sewonm@berkeley.edu

Research Support

Taylor Kaserman
776 Soda
taylor.kase@berkeley.edu

Biography

Sewon Min is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS and a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. Her work lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on Large Language Models (LLMs). Her research focuses on understanding and advancing LLMs centered around how they use the very large text corpora.

Before joining UC Berkeley and Ai2, Sewon earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, supported by a J.P. Morgan Ph.D. Fellowship. During her Ph.D., she was a part-time visiting researcher at Meta AI (formerly Facebook AI Research), and she also interned at Google Research and Salesforce Research. She received her B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University.

Education

2024, Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

2018, B.S., Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing

Teaching Schedule

CS 294-288. Data-Centric Large Language Models, TuTh 12:30-13:59, Cory 540AB