News
Feb 2026: NAVER Shopping Agent (Beta) was launched 🚀
Aug 2024: One paper was accepted at ICPR 2024 🎉
Mar 2024: One paper was accepted at CVPR 2024 (Oral) 🎉
Dec 2023: Started my career at NAVER 🍀
Jul 2023: One paper was presented at the ICML 2023 Workshop (SCIS) 🎉
Oct 2022: One paper was presented at ECCV 2022 🎉
Sep 2022: Began a research internship at NAVER Cloud (~ Mar 2023) 👩🏻💻
Mar 2022: Started my M.S. at Vision & AI Lab under Prof. Jinkyu Kim 🐥
Feb 2022: Received B.S. degree 🐣
Jul 2021: Joined Vision & AI Lab as a student researcher under Prof. Jinkyu Kim (~ Feb 2022) 🐣
Work Experience
Shopping Knowledge Base Construction
Building a shopping knowledge base that extracts and refines contextual knowledge from UGC (blogs, reviews) and matches it to products, targeting queries where lexical matching fails to surface relevant items (e.g., “putter for beginners”, “housewarming gift”)
May 2026
Shopping Guide Agents
Developed LLM agents that provide shopping guides, suggestion chips, and product recommendations on search result pages and in conversational mode; launched as NAVER Shopping Agent (Beta) in Feb 2026
Jun 2025 ~ May 2026
AI Purchase Guide: Query-Theme Modeling
Expanded AI purchase guide coverage beyond the home-appliance category by shifting from per-category to per-query theme extraction with 2-step prompting
2025
C2C Search Query Understanding (Wallapop)
Redesigned distance-based ranking (DMP) with shipping-availability-aware documents
Maintained query term importance (QTI) models and Query Reformulation (QR) system
Developed a term-level typo correction pipeline
Dec 2023 ~ Dec 2024
C2C Search Query Understanding (Poshmark)
Introduced algorithmic typo correction covering unseen queries
Extended query reformulation from1:1 to 1:N using query-embedding-based pair generation, substantially expanding retrieved items per query
Maintained query term importance (QTI) models and related-query suggestion
Dec 2023 ~ Dec 2024
Publications
Clustering-based Image-Text Graph Matching for Domain Generalization
Nokyung Park, Daewon Chae, Jeong Yong Shim, Sangpil Kim, Eun-Sol Kim, Jinkyu Kim
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2024
[Paper] [Code]
InstructBooth: Instruction-following Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
Daewon Chae, Nokyung Park, Jinkyu Kim, Kimin Lee
Preprint version
[Paper] [Project Page]
Bridging the Domain Gap by Clustering-based Image-Text Graph Matching
Nokyung Park, Daewon Chae, Jeong Yong Shim, Sangpil Kim, Eun-Sol Kim, Jinkyu Kim
ICML Workshop on Spurious Correlations, Invariance, and Stability (SCIS) 2023
[Paper]