Hyeonsu Kang

About

Hyeonsu Kang holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he specialized in ML- and LLM-powered interactive systems that enhance human-AI co-creativity.

He has collaborated with the Toyota Research Institute, the Allen Institute for AI, and MIT to design and deploy AI-driven systems with real-world impact. At AI2, he co-designed Semantic Scholar’s improved paper-alert emails, led the engagement analyses that guided their launch, and published multiple research papers with AI2 collaborators. Additionally, he partnered with Conservation X Labs to develop team-formation algorithms for global open-innovation contests offering over $2 million in prize funding.

His research is now required reading at Virginia Tech and CMU. He has received multiple awards, including a Best Paper Award at ACM CHI (2024), a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI (2025), and a Google Cloud Innovator Award (2021).

His mission is to advance human-AI collaboration to solve real-world challenges and foster human creativity.