[2024.02.26] I earned my Ph.D. from Seoul National University under the guidance of Professor Wonjong Rhee.

[2024.02.19] I joined LINE Investment Technologies as the Head of Artificial Intelligence.

LINE Investment Technologies (LIT), Pangyo, South Korea (Feb 2024 - Present)

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Inferent Capital LLC, New York, USA (Jan 2018 - Jun 2018)

Portfolio Manager and Senior Alpha and Portfolio Researcher

Ophir Partners LLC, New York, USA (Sep 2014 - Dec 2017, Merged with Inferent Capital LLC)

Senior Alpha and Portfolio Researcher and co-Portfolio Manager

WorldQuant LLC, CT, USA (Apr 2012 - May 2014)

Senior Alpha Researcher

Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB), Seoul, South Korea (Nov 2010 - Feb 2012)

Proprietary Trader

Korea Telecom (KT), Seoul, South Korea (Jul 2007 - Aug 2010)

Developer

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (Sep 2019 - Feb 2024)

Ph.D. in Engineering

• Department of Intelligence and Information, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology

• Dissertation: Enhancing Deep Representation Learning through von Neumann Entropy Regularization

• Advisor: Wonjong Rhee

• Lab: Deep Representation Learning Research Group

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA, USA (Sep 2005 - Jun 2007)

S.M. in Mathematics

• Thesis: Graph polynomials and statistical physics

• Advisor: Igor Pak

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (Mar 2001 - Feb 2005)

B.S. in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude)

Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted, Suwon, South Korea (Mar 1998 - Feb 2001)

• Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Seoul National University (2021)

• Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005 - 2007)

• Dean's Scholarship, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2003)

• Mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in South Korea, Special Prize (2002)

• 46th National Science Fair in South Korea, Prime Minister Award (2000)

• Samsung Electronics, AI Expert, TA (Sep 5, 2023)

• Seoul National University, Neural Networks (Deep Learning), TA (Fall, 2021)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Linear Algebra, TA (Fall, 2006 and Spring, 2007)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematical Methods for Engineers, TA (Spring, 2006)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Multivariable Calculus, TA (Fall, 2005)

• Poster presentation, Samsung AI Forum (Nov 7, 2023)

• Poster presentation, AIIS Spring Retreat 2023 (May 19, 2023)

Conference

• [C5] “Elastic Deformable Augmentation for Autonomous driving”

Jungwook Shin*, Jaeill Kim*, and Wonjong Rhee

International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC 2023). IEEE.

• [C4] “Enhancing Fine-Tuning in Low Data Regime by Increasing Representation Entropy During Pre-Training Phase”

Jaeill Kim*, Jungwook Shin*, and Wonjong Rhee

International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC 2023). IEEE.

• [C3] “VNE: An Effective Method for Improving Deep Representation by Manipulating Eigenvalue Distribution”

Jaeill Kim, Suhyun Kang, Duhun Hwang, Jungwook Shin, and Wonjong Rhee

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023).

• [C2] “Diversified and Realistic 3D Augmentation via Iterative Construction, Random Placement, and HPR Occlusion”

Jungwook Shin, Jaeill Kim, Kyungeun Lee, Hyunghun Cho, and Wonjong Rhee

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023, ORAL presentation).

• [C1] “Learning ECG representations for multi-label classification of cardiac abnormalities”

Jangwon Suh, Jimyeong Kim, Eunjung Lee, Jaeill Kim, Duhun Hwang, Jungwon Park, ... and Wonjong Rhee

In 2021 Computing in Cardiology (CinC 2021). IEEE.

Arxiv

• [A3] “Improving Forward Compatibility in Class Incremental Learning by Increasing Representation Rank and Feature Richness”

Jaeill Kim, Wonseok Lee, Moonjung Eo, and Wonjong Rhee (2024) (Under review)

• [A2] “Enhancing Contrastive Learning with Efficient Combinatorial Positive Pairing”

Jaeill Kim*, Duhun Hwang*, Eunjung Lee, Jangwon Suh, Jimyeong Kim, and Wonjong Rhee (2024)

• [A1] “Towards a Rigorous Analysis of Mutual Information in Contrastive Learning”

Kyungeun Lee, Jaeill Kim, Suhyun Kang, and Wonjong Rhee (2023) (Under review)

Summary

1. CinC – Computing in Cardiology : [C1]

2. AAAI – AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Conference on Artificial Intelligence : [C2]

   • • Top 4 in the international conference within the domain of artificial intelligence

3. CVPR – IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition : [C3]

   • • Top 1 in the international conference within the domain of engineering & computer science

4. ICTC – International Conference on ICT Convergence : [C4] [C5] 

• Network integrated mediation system and method thereof (Korea Patent Number: 10-1090445)

• Python (PyTorch), Linux (Ubuntu), AWS

• Finance Risk Manager (FRM), Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) (2010)

• Passed Level II of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination (2010)