I am a Ph.D. student in GSAI at POSTECH, working in the Language & Intelligence Lab under the POSTECH NLP Group, advised by Prof. Hyounghun Kim. Also, I am currently a visiting scholar at the Conversational AI Lab @ UIUC, hosted by Prof. Dilek Hakkani-Tür. Previously, I was a research assistant at the Handong Artificial Intelligence Lab (HAIL), where I advised by Prof. Charmgil Hong.

📖 Educations

  • 2023 - Present, Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • 2019 - 2023, B.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Engineering, Handong Global University

🔥 News

  • 2026.08:  🇭🇺 PACE and KoNA have been accepted to EMNLP 2026.
  • 2026.07:  🎉 I have joined the Conversational AI Lab @ UIUC as a visiting scholar.
  • 2026.02:  🎉 I have been selected for the Overseas Dispatch Support Program @ POSTECH.
  • 2026.01:  🇧🇷 AQuA has been accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • 2025.08:  🎉 I have been selected for the NRF Student Research Fellowship.
  • 2025.05:  🇦🇹 M3C has been accepted to ACL 2025.
  • 2024.09:  🇺🇸 MiSC has been accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings.
  • 2023.10:  🇸🇬 Conversation Chronicles has been accepted to EMNLP 2023 (Oral).

📝 Publications

  • PACE: Towards Surfacing Hidden Conflicts in User Requests
    Yoojin Kim, Jihyoung Jang, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of EMNLP 2026. [Paper] [Dataset] [Code]
  • Knowing What Not to Answer: Selective Non-Compliance in Vision-Language Models
    Minji Kim, Jihyoung Jang, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of EMNLP 2026. [Paper] [Dataset] [Code]
  • AQuA: Toward Strategic Response Generation for Ambiguous Visual Questions
    Jihyoung Jang, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Website] [OpenReview]
  • Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions
    Jihyoung Jang*, Minwook Bae*, Minji Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of ACL 2025. [Paper] [Website]
  • Mixed-Session Conversation with Egocentric Memory
    Jihyoung Jang, Taeyoung Kim, and Hyounghun Kim. Findings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper] [Website]
  • Conversation Chronicles: Towards Diverse Temporal and Relational Dynamics in Multi-Session Conversations
    Jihyoung Jang, Minseong Boo, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of EMNLP 2023 (Oral). [Paper] [Website]