Scholar
Kai Tzu-iunn Ong
Google Scholar ID: xF6qLHsAAAAJ
Yonsei University
Citations & Impact
Citations
241
H-index
8
i10-index
7
Publications
17
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- * "Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management", NAACL 2025, Oral Presentation
- * "Multitask Deep Learning for Joint Detection of Necrotizing Viral and Noninfectious Retinitis from Common Blood and Serology Test Data", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2024, Q1, IF = 5.0
- * "Large Language Models Are Clinical Reasoners: Reasoning-aware Diagnosis Framework with Prompt-generated Rationales", AAAI 2024
- * "Evidence-empowered Transfer Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease", IEEE ISBI 2023, Oral Presentation
Research Experience
- - Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Yonsei University, 2022 - Expected 2027
- - Teaching Assistant: Introduction to AI (AAI2250) at Yonsei University, Fall 2024; NLP (AAI3301) at Yonsei University, Spring 2024; AI expert program at Samsung, Korea, Jul 2023 & Fall 2024; Big data (CSI4121) at Yonsei University, Spring 2023
- - Program Reviewer: AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025), ACL (2023, 2024, 2025), EMNLP (2023, 2024, 2025), EACL (2024)
- - Co-organiser: Multi-Camera Robust Classification of Fundus Diseases (MuCaRD) Challenge, MICCAI 2025
- - Mentor: Seung Woo Baek (Spring 2025), Paper accepted to KIISE Special Issue (Feb 2025); Taeyoon Kwon (Fall 2023), Papers accepted to AAAI 2024 and IOVS 2024
Education
- - Yonsei University, 2022 - Expected 2027, Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence, Advisor: Prof. Jinyoung Yeo
- - Yonsei University, 2018 - 2022, B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
- - National Taiwan University, 2016 - 2018 (Voluntarily Ceased), B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
- - HSNU (The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University), Math and Science Concentration
- - Tianmu Junior High School & Elementary School, The tallest kid in my grade
Background
- - From Taiwan
- - Ph.D. candidate in AI, advised by Prof. Jinyoung Yeo
- - Research interests: Dialogue/Interactive Systems, Language Agents, Human-centred AI, AI for Science and Social Good (e.g., healthcare)
- - B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University and Yonsei University
- - Interested in drawing inspiration from societal challenges and human behaviors to advance AI
Miscellany
- - Languages:
- * Native: Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien
- * Full professional proficiency (C1+): English (TOEIC 980), Korean (TOPIK 6)
- * Basic conversational ability (A1-2): Spanish, Japanese
- * Casually learning a few words here and there (A0): Thai
- - Interests: Working out, learning languages, extensive reading
- - Currently reading: '행성어 서점' by 김초엽
