Duration: Ongoing
Role: Original Member, Team Leader
Description:
Collaboration between Quantum Computing (Brian) and Astrophysics (Jiwoong) to explore Artificial Intelligence and interdisciplinary research.
Focused on understanding and explaining concepts using Python and C++.
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Sunje Keum
Kim Hangyeol Park
Duration: January 15, 2024 - Ongoing
Goal
The project aimed to help League of Legends players easily access and explore useful game-related information through a dedicated website.
Role:
I was responsible for designing the overall structure of the website and planning the technical direction during the initial stages of this team project. I built the layout framework and outlined how the frontend and backend components would interact.
Tech Stack
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python
Challenges
There were no major technical difficulties, but I unfortunately had to step away from the project midway due to personal reasons.
Result
Although the project was not completed, the experience helped me realize the importance of proper architectural planning during the early stages of web development.
Reflection
This project taught me the value of early-stage design and technology selection in team-based development. It also motivated me to commit more fully to future projects and see them through to completion.
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Chanwoo Lee
Youngseok Jung
YoonGeol Hong
Duration: September 22, 2024 - October 13, 2024
Goal
This project aimed to analyze and predict how climate conditions influence energy consumption patterns using deep learning techniques.
Role
I was responsible for collecting raw climate and energy data, developing deep learning models using PyTorch, and visualizing the results. My work laid the technical foundation for the final presentation delivered by our team leader to a general audience.
Tech Stack
Pytorch, Pandas
Challenges
The dataset was highly inconsistent, with numerous outliers and missing values, making preprocessing particularly difficult.
Solution
I studied interpolation methods through academic papers and practical guides to clean and impute missing data effectively. This enabled the model to learn from a much more stable and structured dataset.
Result
Although I was not the presenter, my contributions supported the team leader in delivering a successful presentation based on accurate, clean predictions.
Reflection
I learned how difficult it is to find and prepare real-world data, especially in domains like climate and energy. I also gained valuable experience in data cleaning and deepened my collaboration skills through teamwork.
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Junhong Min
Inwon Choi
Jaehwan Kim
Jihyun Yoon
Duration: November 12, 2024 - Ongoing
Goal
This project aimed to create a fully functional hotel management system to simplify operations for a hotel I personally own.
Role
I developed both the frontend and backend components of the website entirely from scratch. The platform allows for seamless room management, reservation handling, and user interaction, and is currently being used in a real-world setting.
Tech Stack
Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL
Challenges
As it was my first web development project, I faced challenges throughout the entire stack—from setting up the backend framework to configuring the deployment environment. Managing the server was particularly difficult.
Solution
I overcame most challenges through self-guided learning and online documentation, particularly in setting up and securing the server for stable operation.
Result
The website was successfully deployed and is currently in use for day-to-day hotel operations.
Reflection
This project gave me practical knowledge of Django and taught me how to manage web servers. It also provided firsthand experience in building and maintaining a complete web application in a real-world context.
Duration: January 12, 2025 - March 01, 2025
Goal
This project aimed to restore obfuscated Korean text—particularly texts intentionally written in distorted or irregular formats, such as product reviews designed to evade automated translation or filtering systems.
Role
I was primarily responsible for designing and implementing the core programs, including developing Transformer-based models tailored for the text restoration task.
Tech Stack
Python, Transformer-based deep learning models
Challenges
The most challenging part was data classification. It was difficult to create a consistent dataset that accurately represented distorted versus clean Korean text.
Solution
I addressed this issue by referencing several academic papers and applying research-driven preprocessing techniques to improve data quality and class separation.
Result
While the model's overall performance and accuracy were somewhat limited, the project provided valuable insights into handling complex, real-world NLP challenges.
Reflection
Through this experience, I gained a deeper understanding of the limitations of natural language processing in noisy or adversarial text environments. It also strengthened my practical skills in model implementation and research-based problem solving.
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Younghoon Lee
Eunseok Lee
Jiwon Lee
Duration: January 10, 2025 - Ongoing
Goal
SpectraTrail is an ongoing project that aims to identify stars and extract their physical properties—such as name, type, and spectral data—by analyzing images of the night sky captured via smartphone.
Role
I serve as the team leader, overseeing the entire project workflow including AI model design, mobile application planning, and web development architecture.
Tech Stack
Python, PyTorch, OpenCV
Challenges
As the project is currently in its early planning and prototyping stage, major technical challenges have yet to arise. However, we anticipate future difficulties in star detection under noisy conditions and differentiating overlapping spectral lines.
Current Progress
The core concept, system structure, and technology roadmap have been established. Implementation will proceed iteratively as development time becomes available.
Reflection
Leading SpectraTrail has sharpened my project planning and technical coordination skills. It also motivates me to bridge AI, astronomy, and mobile computing into a unified system capable of democratizing astronomical observations.
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Jiwoong Choi
Duration: January 10, 2025 - April 20, 2025
Goal
SpectraNeura was a collaborative initiative aimed at exploring various deep learning approaches to identify the most effective models across diverse tasks. The goal was to apply, compare, and enhance deep learning techniques through hands-on experimentation.
Role
I focused on implementing models, reading and presenting research papers, and incorporating novel ideas to improve baseline performance. My role also involved translating theoretical insights into practical experiments.
Tech Stack
PyTorch
Challenges
One of the main challenges was identifying the optimal model architecture for each unique task. It required significant tuning and understanding of underlying data distributions.
Solution
I consistently explored recent papers and adapted their techniques to our experimental framework, aiming to achieve measurable improvements over baselines.
Result
In some tasks, the models I developed achieved the highest accuracy among the team, while in others they fell short—providing valuable insights into the trade-offs of different approaches.
Reflection
This project helped me realize that deep learning is not always superior to traditional machine learning methods. I learned to approach problems with simplicity first, and that understanding the fundamentals often leads to better results than overly complex designs.
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Jeongnyeon Kim
Jihyeon Yoon
Junhong Min
Duration: April 01, 2025 – May 30, 2025
Goal
This project was conducted in collaboration with DHsoft, aiming to automate the recognition and structuring of information from scanned survey documents. The objective was to develop an OCR-based system capable of extracting key data fields and converting them into structured digital records.
Role
I was primarily responsible for implementing the OCR pipeline and integrating the post-processing logic. This included preprocessing scanned PDFs, detecting form boundaries, parsing tabular data, and handling inconsistent handwriting or formatting.
Tech Stack
Python, Tesseract OCR, OpenCV, Pandas
Challenges
The greatest challenge was handling inconsistent formatting across scanned forms—such as variation in alignment, handwriting quality, and layout artifacts—that caused OCR misreads and parsing failures.
Solution
To address this, I applied image processing techniques (e.g., binarization, contour detection) to normalize the input, and developed custom rule-based parsers to extract relevant fields. Additionally, I prepared fallback mechanisms for edge cases and ensured results could be corrected semi-automatically.
Result
The final system was able to process the majority of scanned forms with high reliability and significantly reduced the manual data entry workload. Though not perfect, it laid a foundation for future enhancement through ML-based form analysis.
Reflection
This project strengthened my ability to apply classical computer vision and OCR techniques to real-world data, and taught me the importance of designing systems that are resilient to noise and variability in user-generated documents.