Specific academic achievements such as publications, awards, or patents are not provided in detail.
Research Experience
September 2007 to April 2013: Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Electronics, contributed significantly to the development of multimedia and AI agent applications for mobile devices.
May 2013 to February 2019: Worked at SK Telecom, dedicated nearly six years to advancing speech recognition research and leading the development of commercial voice agent services.
March 2019: Joined LG Corporation group, and became one of the founding members of LG AI Research in December 2020.
Since December 2020: Serves as Head of LG AI Research, leading cutting-edge AI technology research and developing AI-driven solutions to optimize corporate decision-making and operational efficiency.
December 2022 to June 2025: Led the Applied AI Research Group at LG AI Research as Vice President, focusing on time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, etc.
July 2025 - Present: Continues to serve as Head of LG AI Research.
January 2025 - Present: General Member of NAEK (the National Academy of Engineering of Korea).
Education
Earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2000; followed by a Master’s (M.S.) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the same institution in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
Background
Research interests include deep learning for prediction, optimization, representation learning, and other cutting-edge areas in AI. Committed to advancing the field of AI, confident that it will bring about significant changes in society.