Scholar
Beong-woo Kwak
Google Scholar ID: k1OkVykAAAAJ
Yonsei University
Citations & Impact
Citations
120
H-index
6
i10-index
5
Publications
13
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper “Web-Sheperd” accepted to NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
- - Paper “ToolHaystack” accepted to EMNLP 2025
- - Three papers about Long-CoT, Scene Graph Generation, and LLM Simulation of Psychological Patients accepted to ACL 2025
- - Paper TRAIT on LLM Personality Evaluation accepted to NAACL 2025
- - Two papers about Algorithmic Reasoning in LLMs and NL Feedback on Coding Agents accepted to EMNLP 2024
- - Paper “Pearl” on Review-driven, Persona-grounded Conversational Recommentation accepted to ACL 2024
- - Encouragement Prize, Korea Capstone Design Fair (as a representative of Yonsei University) - Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea
- - Top Prize, Software Capstone Design - Computer Science Department, Yonsei Univ
- - Top Presentation Prize, Yonsei Creative Exhibition Presentation - College of Engineering, Yonsei Univ
- - Student Teaching Assistant Scholarship (Head Professor TA) - Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei Univ
Research Experience
- - Research Scientist Intern, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China (Jun 2025 - Dec 2025), Worked on self-evolving tool agents and agentic RL, Mentors: Dr. Liang Wang, Dr. Nan Yang, Dr. Xingxing Zhang
- - Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon AGI Foundational Models Group, Sunnyvale, CA, USA (Jun 2024 - Sep 2024), Return Internship, Worked on Code LLMs
- - Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, Sunnyvale, CA, USA (Jun 2023 - Sep 2023), Worked on Tool-augmented LLMs, Mentors: Dr. Hann Wang, Dr. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Dr. Nagesh Panyam
Education
- - Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University, Mar 2022 - Current, Advisor: Prof. Jinyoung Yeo
- - M.S., Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University, Mar 2020 - Feb 2022, Advisor: Prof. Jinyoung Yeo
- - B.S., Computer Science, Yonsei University, Mar 2014 - Feb 2022
- - Exchange Student, University of California, Santa Cruz, Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Background
- Ph.D. student in AI at Yonsei University, advised by Prof. Jinyoung Yeo. Research interests include: (1) Agents that can interact with various environments (Tools, Code, Web, etc.), (2) Personalization and Agent Memory, (3) Open-world Adaptation of Agents: Efficient and scalable training/evaluation mechanisms under unknown or evolving environments.
Miscellany
- Reviewer: AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, NAACL
- Teaching Experiences: Teaching Assistant on NLP for NVIDIA, Teaching Assistant at Yonsei University for Text and Language Understanding, Big Data, Natural Language Processing
