Junho Myung
PhD Student · KAIST
LLMs trained on the web — tested against the world.
I am a PhD student at KAIST, co-advised by Prof. Alice Oh and Prof. Juho Kim. My research focuses on human-centered evaluation of large language models — building culturally-grounded benchmarks, probing cross-cultural biases and value alignment, and evaluating real-world impact when LLMs are deployed in live settings.
Selected Publications
Human-Centered Evaluation of Large Language Models
I study how LLMs perform across diverse human contexts — building culturally-grounded benchmarks, probing alignment with human values, and evaluating real-world impact when LLMs are deployed in live settings.
Culturally-Grounded LLM Evaluation
Building benchmarks that capture everyday cultural knowledge across diverse languages and communities — asking whether LLMs know the world beyond the Western-centric web.
NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks 2024
🏆 Best Paper · C3NLP @ ACL 2024
Bias, Values & LLM Alignment
Probing whether LLMs reflect diverse human values — examining cross-cultural biases in hate speech annotation, motivational value modeling, and sensitivity to culturally contested topics.
NAACL 2024
🏆 Resource Award · NAACL 2024
Real-World Impact of LLM Deployment
Evaluating what happens when LLMs are deployed in live human contexts — surfacing unintended consequences and inequities that only emerge in practice, not in controlled benchmarks.
CHI 2026
🏆 Best Paper Award · CHI 2026
ACM Learning @ Scale 2023 · Work in Progress
News
🇪🇸 Attending CHI 2026 to present When Scaffolding Breaks.
🏆 Our paper When Scaffolding Breaks has received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2026!
🏆 PapersPlease was selected as an oral presentation at the GEM² workshop @ ACL 2025!
🏆 WORLDCUISINES was shortlisted for the Best Theme Paper Award at NAACL 2025!
🇨🇦 Attending NeurIPS 2024 to present BLEnD as a poster.
CV
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Ph.D., School of Computing
Advisor: Alice Oh and Juho Kim
Mar 2025 – Present
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
M.S., School of Computing
Advisor: Alice Oh and Juho Kim
Mar 2023 – Feb 2025
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
B.S., Major in School of Computing
Minor in Business and Technology Management
Aug 2018 – Feb 2023
Awards
Best Paper Award, CHI 2026
2026
Best Theme Paper Award, NAACL 2025
2025
Best Paper Award, C3NLP Workshop @ ACL 2024
2024
Shortlisted for Best Student Paper Award, Interspeech 2024
2024
Resource Award, NAACL 2024
2024
Outstanding TA Award, KAIST CS473 Introduction to Social Computing
2023
Academic Service
Organizer
SemEval 2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures (2026)
Local Chair
Schedule & Venue Chair, Festival of Learning (2026)
Reviewer
ARR (2025, 2026), C3NLP Workshop (2025, 2026), COLM (2026), DIS (2026), L@S (2026)
Teaching
Introduction to Social Computing (CS473)
Teaching Assistant · KAIST
🏆 Outstanding TA Award, 2023
2023, 2025
Introduction to Programming (CS101)
Teaching Assistant · KAIST
2025, 2026