Affiliation
Assistant Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence/Graduate School of AI, Chung-Ang University, 2023.03 - Present
Senior Researcher, Automation and Systems Research Institute at Seoul National University, 2022.09 - 2023.02
Research Intern, NAVER CLOVA AI Research, 2021.08 - 2022.01
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, 2022.08
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, 2017.02
E-mail: hwanheelee@cau.ac.kr
Office: Building 305, Room 202
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Faithfulness of Natural Language Generation - Abstractive Summarization, Knowledge-grounded Dialog Generation
Factuality Checking - Fact Checking, Factual Consistency Evaluation
Retrieval Augmented Generation - Information Retrieval, Query Reformulation, Hierarchical Retrieval
Large Language Models - In-context Learning, Data Augmentation, Unlearning
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Area Chair, EMNLP 2024
Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Seoul National University
Youlchon AI STAR Scholarship, Nongshim Youlchon Foundation
Scholarship of Electronics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
National Science & Technology Scholarship (Full-tuition for Undergraduate Study), Korea Student Aid Foundation
Invited Talks (Selected)
UNIST, Ulsan, Korea
Building Faithful and Secure Language Models
Oct. 2025
Korea Computer Congress, Jeju, Korea
Faithfulness in Language Models
July. 2025
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Cognitive and Reasoning Capabilities of Hyperscale AI
Mar. 2025
Adobe Research, San Jose, USA
Toward Truthful and Safe Language Models
Jan. 2025
Hyundai NGV, Seoul, Korea
Recent Trends on Natural Language Processing
Dec. 2024
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Toward Truthful and Safe Language Models
Oct. 2024
HCLT-KACL 2024, Seongnam, Korea
Toward Truthful and Safe Language Models
Oct. 2024
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Hallucination of Large Language Models
Mar. 2024
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Korea
Recent Research on Factual Consistency and Applications to Scientific Domain
Jan. 2024
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Research on Text Generation Systems
Oct. 2023
Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seongnam, Korea
Research on Text Generation Systems
July. 2023
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Research on Text Generation Systems
July. 2023
Chung-Ang University Central Library, Anseong, Korea
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS CHATGPT: HOW IT WORKS AND HOW TO USE
May. 2023
Chung-Ang University Central Library, Seoul, Korea
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS CHATGPT: HOW IT WORKS AND HOW TO USE
April. 2023
LG AI Research. Seoul, Korea
FACTUAL CONSISTENCY OF TEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS
Jan. 2023
BrainLink 2022, Incheon, Korea
FACTUAL CONSISTENCY OF TEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS
Oct. 2022
Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seongnam, Korea
FACTUAL CONSISTENCY OF TEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS
Aug. 2022
Hyperconnect, Seoul, Korea
ASKING QUESTIONS TO EVALUATE AN IMAGE CAPTION
Jan. 2022
Kakao Enterprise, Seongnam, Korea
INTEGRATING KEYPHRASE WEIGHTS AND DATA AUGMENTATION FOR TEXT EVALUATION
Jan. 2022
Korea Software Congress 2021, Pyeongchang, Korea
TOP CONFERENCE SESSION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Dec. 2021
Hyundai AIRLab, Seoul, Korea
INTEGRATING KEYPHRASE WEIGHTS FOR GENERATIVE QA EVALUATION
Dec. 2021
LG AI Research, Seoul, Korea
RECENT ADVANCES IN TEXT EVALUATION METRICS
July 2021
Academic Activities
Organizing Committee
IJCNLP-AACL 2023 (D&I Chair)
Area Chair
ACL 2024-2025
EMNLP 2024
NAACL 2024-2025
COLING 2025
KSC 2023, KCC 2024, IEIE 2023
Reviewer
NeurIPS 2023-2025
ACL 2021-2023
EMNLP 2020-2023
COLING 2022-2024
AAAI 2021
Teaching Experiences
Object-oriented Programming @ Chung-Ang University
LECTURER
Spring 2024, Spring 2025
Embedded Artificial Intelligence @ Chung-Ang University
LECTURER
Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Artificial Intelligence Design @ Chung-Ang University
LECTURER
Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Advanced Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models @ Chung-Ang University
LECTURER
Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
Probability and Random Process @ Chung-Ang University
LECTURER
Spring 2023
Machine Learning @ Seoul National University
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Programming Methodology @ Seoul National University
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2017
Seminar on Deep Learning @ Seoul National University
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Fall 2019
Introduction to IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data @ Seoul National University
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018