• Sep 2026: I will be joining Microsoft Research Asia as a research intern in September 2026! 

• Jul 2026:  I was selected as one of the 48 recipients worldwide for the OKF Invitational Scholarship Program for Overseas Koreans (Graduate Program). I am grateful to the Government of  Korea for investing in my future and supporting my academic journey!

• Jun 2026: I will be joining the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Yonsei University as an M.S. student in Fall 2026!

• Jun 2026: [Hub-J] is accepted to ICML 2026 Workshop (Trustworthy AI for Good)! I'll be in Seoul 🇰🇷  for the conference. Feel free to say hi if you see me around!  (+ and welcome to my home country! )

• Jan 2026: [TiTok] is accepted to ICLR 2026! I'll be in Rio 🇧🇷. Happy to connect if you're attending!

• Aug 2025: [CoPe] is accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main)! I'll be in Suzhou 🇨🇳. Looking forward to connecting with everyone! 

My current research interests center on developing reliable and efficient large language models (LLMs). In particular, I am interested in building models that are safe, trustworthy, responsible, and well aligned with human values. Additionally, I am interested in improving their computational efficiency by achieving stronger performance with fewer tokens, less computation, and smaller models. More broadly, I am especially inspired by the remarkable efficiency of the human brain, which performs complex reasoning with far less energy, suggesting that more efficient forms of intelligence are possible.

My broader research interests also include, but are not limited to:

• Generalization and transfer learning

• Multimodal learning and real-world NLP applications

• Natural language generation

• Personalization and domain adaptation

• Reinforcement learning

(C: Conference,  W: Workshop, P: Preprint,  *: Equal contribution) 

• Dean’s List  Yonsei University — 2022-1, 2022-2, 2023-1   Highest Ranking: Top 2% (6 / 337)!

• Gold Prize  Korea Invention Idea Contest (KYIC) — 2022

• Best Presentation  Republic of Korea Youth Delegate to the UN Security Council — 2022

• Champion  6th KOBLA Youth Cup, Korean Basketball Federation in Asia — 2019  Also awarded as Most Valuable Player (MVP)!

• OKF Invitational Scholarship Program for Overseas Koreans  [Graduate Program]
  Ministry of Overseas Koreans & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea  — 2026~Current
  One of the 48 worldwide recipients of Korean government scholarship. 

• OKF Invitational Scholarship Program for Overseas Koreans  [Undergraduate Program]
  Ministry of Overseas Koreans & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea  — 2022~2026
  One of the 20–30 worldwide recipients of Korean government scholarship.