I am a Machine Learning Engineer at NAVER and an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science and
Engineering at Korea University (starting Sep 2026), where I will be advised by SeongKu Kang.
I received my M.S from KAIST, where I was advised by Kee-Eung Kim.
Feel free to send me an e-mail if you want to have a chat.
Distillation focused on the parts that are particularly difficult to follow using discrepancy on
both the user side and the item side of the teacher model and the student model
Development of a data quality improvement pipeline, that utilizes augmentation and hard negative
dataset extraction and modification, to improve image classification performance with only a small
dataset
Machine Learning Engineer | NAVER
Ranking & Personalization for Search and Recommendation
Jan 2022 - Present
Software Engineer | TmaxData
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering | Korea University
Sep 2026 - Present
Advisor: Prof. SeongKu Kang
M.S in Software Graduate Program | KAIST
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Advisor: Prof. Kee-Eung Kim
B.S in Mathematics | Hanyang University
Mar 2012 - Feb 2019
Leave of absence for mandatory military service: Jul 2014 - Jul 2016