I'm an undergraduate at Cornell University working on language, human-AI interaction, and representation learning.

I'm exceedingly fortunate to be advised by Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee.

say hello

lyk25 [at] cornell [dot] edu

@laerdonkim on Twitter/X

code on github; I help maintain ConvoKit

writing on substack

music on soundcloud

my cv

papers

Wait! There's a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment. ACL 2026, top 2.8% of submissions

Current Semantic-change Quantification Methods Struggle with Discovery in the Wild. EMNLP 2025

A Baseline for Self-state Identification and Classification in Mental Health Data. CLPsych @ NAACL 2025