Minwoo (Josh) Kang


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I’m a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where I am affiliated with Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and the SLICE Lab.
My research is advised by John Canny and John Wawrzynek.

My research spans various topics in language modeling and NLP, with applications in computational social science as well as language models as ‘‘agents’’.

Most recent interests:

  • Language models as collaborative agents
  • Language models as exploratory agents
  • Language models as models of human behavior


For contact, please reach out to:
mkang at cs dot {my institution} dot edu

news

Sep 29, 2025 :airplane: I will be attending COLM 2025 to present our work “Deep Binding of Language Model Virtual Personas: a Study on Approximating Political Partisan Misperceptions”!

I’m also co-organizing PragLM 2025 Workshop (October 10th) co-located at COLM! Looking forward to amazing meetings and the workshop!
Feb 28, 2025 Check out our new preprint “Language Model Fine-Tuning on Scaled Survey Data for Predicting Distributions of Public Opinions”! Link to X thread → :thread:.
Nov 08, 2024 :airplane: I will be attending EMNLP 2024 to present our work “Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories”. Looking forward to presenting our poster!

selected publications

  1. Deep Binding of Language Model Virtual Personas: a Study on Approximating Political Partisan Misperceptions
    Minwoo Kang* ,  Suhong Moon* ,  Seung Hyeong Lee ,  Ayush Raj ,  Joseph Suh , and 1 more author
    In Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) , 2025
  2. Language Model Fine-Tuning on Scaled Survey Data for Predicting Distributions of Public Opinions
    Joseph Suh* ,  Erfan Jahanparast* ,  Suhong Moon* ,  Minwoo Kang* ,  and  Serina Chang
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 2025
  3. Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
    Suhong Moon* ,  Marwa Abdulhai* ,  Minwoo Kang* ,  Joseph Suh ,  Widyadewi Soedarmadji , and 3 more authors
    In 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , 2024
  4. Rediscovering the Latent Dimensions of Personality with Large Language Models as Trait Descriptors
    Joseph Suh* ,  Suhong Moon* ,  Minwoo Kang* ,  David M Chan ,  and  John Canny
    In 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Behavioral ML , 2024