Laerdon Kim - Undergraduate Researcher at Cornell University
Hi! I'm Laerdon Kim, a second-year at Cornell University studying Computer Science and Mathematics. I'm interested in NLP for long-horizon social understanding and scientific advancement and investigating language model embeddings. My research advisors are Professor Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Professor Lillian Lee.
what i'm up to
I recently co-authored an EMNLP 2025 paper on lexical semantic change; arxiv forthcoming!
This summer, I'll be working as a research intern funded by the Bowers Undergraduate Research Experience (BURE) program at Cornell. I'll be working further with Prof. Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, developing forecasting models to determine when and how tension builds in online conversation.
for fun
- I produce music in Ableton, occasionally contributing samples of my cello.
- I sketch. I have a lot of MUJI pens, too.
- I like to grill, and bake cupcakes, pies, and custard-related desserts. I once made an algae-colored pumpkin pie.
- In summer 2024, I started a blog on Substack.