Personal History

Won Ik studied computational linguistics and spoken language processing at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University. His main research goal lies in discerning and analyzing the intention of human utterances in a typological manner, especially investigating the Korean language. He is interested in subword-level embeddings in Korean, prosody-semantics interface, and other NLP tasks, including semantic textual similarity and figurative languages. He also studies how language processing can benefit humans, especially regarding human-computer interaction, quantification of societal bias and offensiveness of language, and letting human beings use AI in more a responsible manner. He is now working as a staff engineer and researcher in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, at the same time pursuing his research goals as benefiting human beings with natural language techniques.

• Staff Engineer at Knowledge Learning TU (formerly Machine Learning Lab), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Samsung Electronics, 2022. 09 -)

• Visiting research in collaboration with Clova AI (NAVER, 2020. 02 - 2020. 04)

• Sponsorship Program at Device Solutions, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (2018. 03 - 2021. 08)

• Technical Research Personnel at Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (As a military service, 2017. 09 - 2020. 08)

• Integrated Ph. D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Seoul National University, 2014. 09 - 2022. 08)

• B.E/S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics (Seoul National University, 2010. 03- 2014. 08)

Scholarships:

• National Science & Technology Scholarship 

  • Full-tuition for 7 out of 9 undergraduate semesters

• Sponsorship Program at Device Solutions, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

  • 7 semesters of Integrated Ph.D. course

Teaching experience:

• Teaching Assistant

  • AI Boost Camp with NAVER Connect - Autumn 2021, Spring 2022

  • Student-designed Study for Undergraduates  - Summer 2019 (w/ Jiwon Kim)

  • System Design Project for Undergraduates - Spring 2018 (w/ Ha Eun Park and Dae Ho Kook)

  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP) - Spring 2015, Spring 2016

Awards and Grants:

• 2022 Underscore Data-driven CSS Research Grant (w/ Soomin Kim, Eujeong Choi, and Younghoon Jeong)

• 2020 SW Startup Challenge - 2nd place (w/ Heeah Kim, Taehoon Park, and Youngki Moon)

• 2020 HAAFOR Challenge - 2nd place (w/ Keumgang Cha) 

• 2020 SelectStar Dataset Challenge - 3rd place (w/ Keracorn team)

• 2020 KPMG Ideathon - 20 Finalists (w/ Ayoung Byun,  Jungyeon Lee, and Hosoo Cho)

• 2013 IT Convergence Idea Camp - KEIT Director's Award (w/ Jeongseop Oh)

Academic Services (Reviewer & Committee):

• NeurIPS Dataset and Benchmark ('21, '22, '23, '24)

• CSCW ('23 Jul., '24 Jan. AC)

• ACL Rolling Review ('21, '22, '24), EMNLP ('21, '22), ACL ('21, '22, '23, '24), COLING ('22, '24), LREC ('24), PACLIC ('23)

• NLP4DH ('21, '22, '23 PC), JDMDH ('24), NLP-OSS ('23 PC), RAI ('21 PC), SemEval ('18)

• ICASSP ('23), IEEE Access ('21), Computer, Speech, and Language (Elsevier, '20, '21, '22)

• ACMMM ('21, '22, '23, '24), ACMMM Asia ('21), CSAE ('22)

• Connection Science (T&F, '22), Critical Arts (T&F, '23), Applied Artificial Intelligence (T&F, '24)

• PeerJ ('22), Heliyon (Cell Press, '23), ETRI Journal (Wiley, '24)

• HSOA Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery ('22)

• Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing  (Hindawi, '18, '19)

• PyCon KR ('19)