Home People Yoon Kim People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors NBX Professor; Associate Professor [AI+D] yoonhkim@mit.edu _ Office: 45-701B Research Areas Artificial Intelligence + Machine LearningNatural Language and Speech Processing Latest News More News November 13, 2025 Teaching large language models how to absorb new knowledge With a new method developed at MIT, an LLM behaves more like a student, writing notes that it studies to memorize new information. November 7, 2025 Charting the future of AI, from safer answers to faster thinking MIT PhD students who interned with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Summer Program are pushing AI tools to be more flexible, efficient, and grounded in truth. July 9, 2025 Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning Researchers developed a way to make large language models more adaptable to challenging tasks like strategic planning or process optimization. May 14, 2025 Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis. March 18, 2025 Department of EECS announces 2025 promotions and appointments All promotions and appointments will take effect July 1, 2025.