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Been Kim

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Senior Staff Research scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Been Kim is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with a PhD from MIT. Her research is dedicated to AI interpretability, focusing on building tools and human-centered language to enable effective communication between people and complex machine learning models.

Her work, described by Quanta Magazine as building a "translator for artificial intelligence, " aims to help anyone understand how complex AI systems arrive at their decisions.

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Current Role
Senior Staff Research scientist
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Topics Been cares about

AI Interpretability
This is the central focus of her career. She builds methods and tools to explain the decision-making processes of complex AI models to make them less of a "black box".
Human-AI Communication
She aims to develop a language for humans and machines to communicate, enabling better collaboration and understanding. This was the theme of her ICLR 2022 keynote talk.
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Career

Work history

4-2023
Senior Staff Research scientist
Google DeepMind
Google Brain
6 yrs 1 mo
8-2015 - 4-2017
Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering department
University of Washington
8-2015 - 4-2017
Research Scientist
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
2-2012 - 6-2015
Ph.D
MIT
In the press

Media appearances

Been Kim (Google DeepMind) – Alignment and Interpretability. Featured in University of Chicago Data Science Institute
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Google DeepMind researcher on understanding machines. Featured in YouTube (Interview)
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Education
2012 - 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 - 2010
Masters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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