Publications: Multiple papers accepted by ACL Rolling Review, NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, ICCV 2025, KDD 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025; Awards: CSE Award (POSTECH CSE, 2023), Best Paper Award (Korean Artificial Intelligence Society Summer Conference, 2023), Best Paper Award (Korean Artificial Intelligence Society & NAVER Autumn Joint Conference, 2022), Best Paper Award & 2nd Place on Leaderboard (CIKM 2022 EvalRS Data Challenge, 2022), Outstanding Dissertation Award (Department of Computer Science, KAIST, 2015), Microsoft Research Fellowship Nomination Award (Microsoft Research Asia, 2013), ICML Student Travel Scholarship (International Machine Learning Society, 2012), National Science & Technology Scholarship (Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2008).
Research Experience
Mar. 2024 - Present: Associate Professor at POSTECH; Dec. 2019 - Feb. 2024: Assistant Professor at POSTECH; Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2024: Honorary Lecturer at Australian National University; Jan. 2019 - Nov. 2019: Lecturer at Australian National University; Jul. 2015 - Dec. 2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian National University; Jun. 2013 - Aug. 2013: Intern Researcher at Microsoft Research, Mentors: Nebojsa Jojic, Alessandro Perina; Sep. 2012 - Feb. 2013: Intern Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, Mentor: Haixun Wang.
Education
Ph.D. (Feb. 2011 - Feb. 2015): KAIST, Computer Science, Advisor: Alice Oh; M.S. (Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2011): KAIST, Computer Science, Advisor: Alice Oh; B.E. (Mar. 2003 - Feb. 2009): Sungkyunkwan University, Computer Science.
Background
Research interests: Geometric structure of datasets and models and their influence on machine learning algorithms. Professional field: Machine Learning.