Jihyung Park
jihyung803 [AT] utexas.edu
Austin, TX
M.S. Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Hello. I am a computer science researcher who recently completed an M.S. in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, where I worked as a graduate research assistant in the Urban Information Lab.
My work focuses on language models, multimodal understanding, and practical AI systems for public-interest settings. I am especially interested in pragmatic reasoning, self-reinforcing training, safety monitoring, digital twins, and multimodal datasets.
Before UT Austin, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas, where I worked with the Human Language Technology Research Institute on meme understanding. I have also worked on LLM data generation and validation as an LLM trainer at Turing.
News
XR-DT accepted to IROS 2026.
Completed my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin (video).
Decentralized digital twin accepted to the AAAI AI4UP Workshop.
LLM-Powered Interactive Urban Mobility Simulation accepted to the NeurIPS Workshop on UrbanAI.
MemeInterpret accepted to EMNLP Finding 2025.
Completed my B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Publications
PRAGREST: Self-Reinforcing Counterfactual Reasoning for Pragmatic Language Understanding
In submission (EMNLP)
AERIC: Anticipatory Hidden-State Monitoring for Implicit Harmful Dialogue
In submission (Neurips)
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
A Decentralized Digital Twin via Crowdsourced Sensing and Browser-Based Edge Computation
In AAAI Workshop on AI for Urban Planning, 2026
For the full list, see Publications.
Work Experience
Intellichoice
Pro Bono AI Engineer
Urban Information Lab, UT Austin
Graduate Research Assistant
Turing
LLM Trainer
Human Language Technology Research Institute, UT Dallas
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
B.S. in Computer Science