PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Kyungtae Lim

Also known as KyungTae Lim, 임경태

Kyungtae Lim is a natural language processing researcher whose work runs from multilingual dependency parsing to open Korean–English language models. After a stint at Samsung SDS and master's study at KAIST, he pursued a Ph.D. at École normale supérieure in Paris from 2017 to 2020 under Thierry Poibeau, and the SEx BiST parser he coauthored placed 2nd of 26 teams on UAS at the CoNLL 2018 shared task. In 2024 he coauthored a paper that introduced Bllossom, a Korean-focused model built on Llama2, and in 2025 he coauthored KORMo-10B, a 10.8B-parameter bilingual model trained from scratch. He is an assistant professor at KAIST's Graduate School of Culture Technology, where he heads the Multimodal Language Processing Lab.

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Timeline

  1. 2004–2014

    Samsung SDS and a KAIST master's

    He studies computer science at Dankook University from 2004 to 2010 and works as an engineer at Samsung SDS from 2010 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 he studies web science and technology at KAIST for an M.S., with Key-Sun Choi as advisor.

  2. 2014–2020

    KISTI and a Paris doctorate

    He works as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information from 2014 to 2016. From 2017 to 2020 he studies language sciences for a Ph.D. at École normale supérieure – PSL in Paris, advised by Thierry Poibeau of the LATTICE laboratory, and his doctoral work covers multilingual dependency parsing and natural language understanding.

  3. 2018

    The SEx BiST parser

    In 2018 he coauthors a LREC paper with Niko Partanen and Thierry Poibeau on multilingual dependency parsing for North Saami and Komi-Zyrian, two low-resource languages. The SEx BiST parser he coauthors at Lattice for the CoNLL 2018 shared task places 4th of 26 teams on LAS and 2nd of 26 on UAS, and ranks 1st at the event extraction task of the 2018 Extrinsic Parser Evaluation campaign.

  4. 2020–2025

    From KAERI to two professorships

    From 2020 to 2021 he is a senior researcher at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. He becomes an assistant professor of computer engineering at Hanbat National University in 2021, and from 2023 until February 2025 he is an assistant professor of applied artificial intelligence at Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

  5. 2022

    A morpheme-based Korean format

    In 2022 he coauthors the COLING paper "Yet Another Format of Universal Dependencies for Korean", which proposes a morpheme-based scheme for Korean dependency parsing. The proposed morphUD format outperforms parsing results for all Korean UD treebanks.

  6. 2024

    The Bllossom language model

    In 2024 he coauthors a paper that adapts Llama2 to Korean by expanding the vocabulary, pretraining on bilingual data and tuning on a small instruction dataset, and names the resulting model Bllossom.

  7. Since 2025

    Heading KAIST's MLP Lab

    In March 2025 he joins the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST as an assistant professor, where he heads the Multimodal Language Processing Lab and is also an adjunct professor in the AX Department. His research areas are multimodal language models, agents and natural language processing. In October 2025 he is a coauthor of KORMo-10B, a 10.8B-parameter model trained from scratch on a Korean–English corpus and released with its data, code, training recipes and logs.

Career

  1. Since 2025KAISTAssistant Professor
  2. Since 2025Graduate School of Culture TechnologyHead
  3. 2023–2025Seoul National University of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor
  4. 2021–2023Hanbat National UniversityAssistant Professor
  5. 2020–2021Ministry of Science and ICTSenior Researcher
  6. 2014–2016Korea Institute of Science and Technology InformationResearcher
  7. 2010–2012SamsungEngineer

Education

  1. 2020Université Paris Sciences et LettresPh.D.
  2. 2014KAISTM.S.
  3. 2010Dankook University

From the biography.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Kyungtae Lim. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. KAIST Culture Technology ct.kaist.ac.kr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. MLP Lab. - Professor sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Multilingual Dependency Parsing for Low-Resource Languages: Case Studies on North Saami and Komi-Zyrian - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. SEx BiST: A Multi-Source Trainable Parser with Deep Contextualized Lexical Representations - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Yet Another Format of Universal Dependencies for Korean - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. [2403.10882] Optimizing Language Augmentation for Multilingual Large Language Models: A Case Study on Korean arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Faculty | AX aicollege.kaist.ac.kr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. [2510.09426] KORMo: Korean Open Reasoning Model for Everyone arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.