Seungju Han

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Last update - 23/11/26

Visiting Student Researcher @ Allen Institute for AI (Mosaic Team), Seattle.
Undergrad @ Seoul National University (Electrical & Computer Engineering). Seoul.
Ex- ML Engineer @ Hyperconnect (acquired by Match Group for $1.7B). Seoul.

Hello! Currently, I’m a visiting student researcher at Allen Institute for AI, fortunate to be hosted by Youngjae Yu, Jack Hessel, and advised by Yejin Choi.

My goal is to build AI systems that collaborate with people to make decisions when solving real-world problems, including scientific research, education, and mental health support. To achieve this mission, I am particularly interested in enhancing AI systems to be more user-friendly as I firmly believe the technology should focus on people using AI systems. Methodologically, my recent interest lies in scalable methods, including learning without human supervision (weakly supervised learning — CHAMPAGNE), learning through interaction, and evaluating models with the assistance of other AI models (building a benchmark — NormLens).

Previously, I worked on research and engineering at Hyperconnect (acquired by Match Group for $1.7B), solving product-related problems (PC Softmax & LADE) and build social chatbot product (DRESS, PDP, CORGE, G2R, Attentron) to solve people’s loneliness.

personal

I like workouts in the gym and singing music. p.s. I participated in building a product (GYMWORK) to assist people with their workout routines!

Curriculum Vitae

news

Oct 8, 2023 Our recent work on defeasible visual-grounded commonsense norms is accepted to EMNLP 2023 and will be presented in oral session!
Mar 20, 2023 Our work done in collaboration with AI2 is online! And this paper got accepted to ICCV 2023!
Oct 6, 2022 One paper, which I participated as a first author, is accepted to EMNLP 22 Findings!
Sep 20, 2022 I am really grateful to start research collaboration with AI2 hosted by Youngjae and advised by Yejin!
Apr 8, 2022 One paper, which I participated as a first author, is accepted to NAACL 2022!

selected publications

  1. EMNLP
    Reading Books is Great, But Not if You Are Driving! Visually Grounded Reasoning about Defeasible Commonsense Norms
    Seungju Han, Junhyeok Kim, Jack Hessel, Liwei Jiang, Jiwan Chung, Yejin Son, Yejin Choi, and Youngjae Yu
    In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, Oral Presentation) 2023
  2. ICCV
    CHAMPAGNE: Learning Real-world Conversation from Large-Scale Web Videos
    Seungju Han, Jack Hessel, Nouha Dziri, Yejin Choi, and Youngjae Yu
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023
  3. EMNLP
    Measuring and Improving Semantic Diversity of Dialogue Generation
    Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, and Buru Chang
    In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings) 2022
  4. NAACL
    Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterances
    Seungju Han*, Beomsu Kim*, Jin Yong Yoo*, Seokjun Seo, Sangbum Kim, Enkhbayar Erdenee, and Buru Chang
    In Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL Short) 2022
  5. ACL Workshop
    Understanding and Improving the Exemplar-based Generation for Open-domain Conversation
    Seungju Han*, Beomsu Kim*, Seokjun Seo*, Erdenee Enkhbayar*, and Buru Chang
    In 4th NLP for Conversational AI (Oral, Outstanding Paper), Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2022