I’m a Ph.D. candidate at Seoul National University (MILAB). My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Interpretable & Safe AI.
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Education

Seoul National University 2021.03 ~ 2026.02
- Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence
- Advisor: Professor Kyomin Jung
- Thesis: Knowledge Localization for Efficient and Safe Language Models
- Distinguished Ph.D Dissertation Award

Ajou University 2015.03 ~ 2019.02
- Bachelor’s in Electronic Business, Software, Business Administration
- Ajou-people Award (College Representative)

Professional Experiences

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy 2025.08 ~ 2025.10
- Research Internship
- Working with Professor Meeyoung Cha
- Research area: AI Safety (ICLR 2026) and Pretraining (ICLR 2026)

Adobe Research 2023.02 ~ Present
- Collaborative Researcher
- Remote working with Dr. David Seunghyun Yoon
- Research area: Multi-modality (CIKM 2024) and AI Safety (EMNLP 2025)

LG AI Research 2023.09 ~ 2024.02
- Research Internship
- Working with Dr. Stanley Jungkyu Choi and Professor Honglak Lee
- Research area: AI Safety (ACL 2024) 2023.09 ~ 2023.12
- Project: Large Language Model Application (EXAONE) 2023.12 ~ 2024.02

Mentoring Experiences

- Hyukhun Koh (Ph.D. Student at Seoul National University)
- Haesung Pyun (Ph.D. Student at Seoul National University)
- Jahyun Koo (Ph.D. Student at Seoul National University)
- Minsung Kim (Ph.D. Student at Seoul National University)
- Kyeongman Park (M.S. Student at Seoul National University)
- Jiwon Moon (M.S. Student at Seoul National University)
- Junseok Kim (B.S. Student at Seoul National University)
- Sangmook Lee (M.S. Student at Seoul National University)
- Dohyung Kim (M.S. Student at Seoul National University)