I am a Master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Hanyang University and a member of HYU NLP Lab, advised by Prof. Taeuk Kim. My research is at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and empirical AI alignment. I am interested in understanding when LLM-based systems can reliably reason, remember, and make decisions in ways that reflect human preferences. My recent research focuses on LLM-as-a-Judge, rubric-based evaluation, reward signal reliability, and memory-based preference inference for tool-calling agents. In particular, I study whether evaluation and reward signals faithfully capture human judgment, or whether they simply reproduce the prior preferences and biases of the evaluator model. My broader goal is to develop human-centered language technologies that are not only capable and interactive, but also more reliable, interpretable, and aligned with the people who use them.
🧠 Research Interests
LLM evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge
Rubric-based evaluation and reward signal reliability
Human-aligned evaluation for reasoning, dialogue, and debate
Memory-augmented LLM agents and multi-session preference inference
Multi-agent debate and collaborative reasoning systems
Tool-using agents and personalized decision-making
Human-centered dialogue systems across language and speech modalities
March 2026 --- "Latent Preference Modeling for Cross-Session Personalized Tool Calling" is now on ArXiv!
November 2025 --- Presented our paper"Beyond Task-Oriented and Chitchat Dialogues: Proactive and Transition-Aware Conversational Agents"@ EMNLP 2025, / Suzhou, China !
August 2025 --- Selected for 1-year grant (Academic Research Support Program in Science and Engineering) from NRF, researching on "Memory as Meaning: A Meta-Graph-Based Framework for Emotionally Adaptive Long-Term Conversational Agents"
August 2025 --- "Beyond Task-Oriented and Chitchat Dialogues: Proactive and Transition-Aware Conversational Agents" is accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!
June 2025 --- August 2025 — Selected for the AI SeoulTech Graduate Scholarship, awarded by the Seoul Scholarship Foundation
May 2025 --- "ENGinius: A Bilingual LLM Optimized for Plant Construction Engineering" is accepted to ACL 2025 Industry Track !
May 2025 --- Presented my paper “Exploring Modular Prompt Design for Emotion and Mental Health Recognition” @ CHI 2025, / Yokohama, Japan !
March 2025 --- Started my Master's @ HYU NLP, Hanyang University / South Korea!
February 2025 --- “Exploring Modular Prompt Design for Emotion and Mental Health Recognition” is accepted to CHI 2025 !