Hyeonji Hwang
PhD candidate - currently on leave, co-founder of AI startup (building AI visual creatives tool, Flamel)
Graduate School of AI, KAIST
Advisor : Edward Yoonjae Choi
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/localh/
Email : localh@kaist.ac.kr
Hi, I am a first-year PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I am being advised by professor Edward Yoonjae Choi. I earned my master's degree in the same research lab.
My research interest includes multimodal systems (image, text, video), dialog systems (long-term personalization, engagingness, consistency) and machine learning for healthcare. I am interested in utilizing this cutting-edge technology for humans.
Interests
Natural Language Processing, Dialog system, Healthcare AI, Generative AI (image GenAI)
Dataset construction, Evaluation system for AI
mental health care, start-ups, product management
Work Experiences
System Architect Engineer at Samsung Electronics (2018.01-2021.02)
Internship at Atommerce Inc. - Mindcafe (2015.09-12)
Internship at Cognitive Modeling Lab, Korea University (2015.07-11)
Publications
EHRSQL: A Practical Text-to-SQL Benchmark for Electronic Health Records [paper]
Gyubok Lee, Hyeonji Hwang, Seongsu Bae, Yeonsu Kwon, Woncheol Shin, Seongjun Yang, Minjoon Seo, Jong-Yeup Kim, Edward Choi,
NeurIPS Track Datasets and Benchmarks 2022Towards the Practical Utility of Federated Learning in the Medical Domain [paper]
Seongjun Yang, Hyeonji Hwang, Daeyoung Kim, Radhika Dua, Jong-Yeup Kim, Eunho Yang, and Edward Choi, 2022
CHIL 2023
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (2023.09 - present)
PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence
Advisor : Edward Yoonjae ChoiKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (2021.03 - 2023.06)
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Advisor : Edward Yoonjae ChoiKorea University (2013.03-2018.02)
B.S. in Industrial Management EngineeringSimon Fraser University (2016.09-2017.04)
Exchange Student Department of Statistics & Actuarial Sciences
Awards
2022 E*5 KAIST - KAIST Startup Audition Outstanding Team prize
Excellent Project Achievement Award, Samsung Electronics DIT Center (2019)
Second Place (Silver Prize), Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers Undergraduate Project Contest (2015)
Research about Extracting GOMS Unit Operators in Mobile Environment [link]
Activities
Instructor in Machine Learning at Data Diving
In-company Instructor in Data Science at MES Team in Samsung Electronics
Staff Leader of Korea University in FIELD (2015)
* FIELD : Korean Industrial Engineering Undergraduates Academic Society