background

Education

  • University of Washington (August, 2022 - Dec, 2022)
    • Exchange Student
  • Seoul National University (March, 2017 - present)
    • BS in Electric & Computer Engineering (Major GPA: 4.18/4.30, Overall GPA: 4.18/4.30)
  • Seoul Science High School (March, 2014 - February, 2017)
    • Specialized high school for students talented in math and science

Experiences

  • Allen Institute for AI Seattle, WA (Sep, 2022 - present)
    • Collaborating Researcher (Host: Youngjae Yu, Jack Hessel; Advisor: Prof. Yejin Choi)
  • Hyperconnect, Inc. Seoul, Korea (April, 2019 - Aug, 2022)
    • Machine Learning Engineer
      • Participated in 6 AI research works as a co-first author, where all papers were published in the top-AI conferences.
      • Led the new chatbot project. Involved as an engineer developing many chatbot modules, and managing the project.
      • Developed chatbot models used in Hyperconnect’s global social service, Picai.
      • Developed an image-based CTR prediction model used in Hyperconnect’s global social service, Azar.
      • Developed the few-shot text-to-speech model used in Hyperconnect’s global social service, Hakuna.
      • Developed the keyword spotting model to improve users’ experiences from Hyperconnect’s global social service, Azar.
  • SNU Computer Vision Lab Seoul, Korea (Jan, 2019 - Mar, 2019)
    • Undergraduate Research Intern (Advisor: Prof. Bohyung Han)