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Biography

Sewon Min is an incoming assistant professor at UC Berkeley EECS, starting in July 2025, and a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI.

She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington. She has also been a part-time visiting researcher at Meta AI (formerly Facebook AI Research), interned at Google Research and Salesforce Research, and received her B.S. in CSE from Seoul National University.

Sewon Min's research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning. Her thesis, "Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models," focuses on understanding and advancing LLMs centered around how they use the very large text corpora they are trained on. For more information, visit her website: sewonmin.com.

Education

  • 2024, Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
  • 2018, B.S., Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University