Ph.D. student researching reasoning, scalable supervision, and agentic systems for large language models.

This adorable cat’s name is hoyang (호양), a Korean portmanteau combining the words for tiger and cat.

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Education

  • Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
    Ph.D. Candidate in Industrial Engineering — Sep 2024 to present
    Advisor: Prof. Pilsung Kang • Data Science and Business Analytics Lab

  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea
    M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering — Mar 2022 to Aug 2024
    Advisor: Prof. Pilsung Kang • Data Science and Business Analytics Lab

  • Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
    B.A. in Consumer Science — Mar 2014 to Feb 2021

Highlights

  • Researching trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and reasoning-oriented language model systems
  • Work spans belief-shift rewards, API-boundary privacy, semantic retrieval, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation
  • Published across premier ML and NLP venues including ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and CVPR workshops

For a complete list of publications, see the Publications page.