I'm a software engineer at Amazon and a graduate of Yale University (B.S. Computer Science & Economics, 2025). My research interests are in speech processing and natural language processing. During my undergraduate years, I presented work at Interspeech 2024 (Kos, Greece) and ACL 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand), and interned on text-to-speech teams at NAVER and Samsung Electronics in South Korea.

Outside of work, I enjoy studying foreign languages — I speak English, Korean, and Spanish and I'm currently working on my fourth, French — and exploring historic sites. I'm particularly drawn to themes of memorialization and the selective preservation and destruction of material cultural heritage.

My email is sophiayk20 [at] gmail [dot] com. My profiles are available at: Google Scholar, OpenReview, and ACL Anthology.
Visit my history page for an organized list of experiences.