Stanley Jungkyu Choi
(최 정 규)

Skills

• Technology Expertise
  - Natural Language Understanding, Dialog System, Knowledge Inference & Representation, Question Answering System, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis
  - Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Platform & Service Orchestration of Voice Agent, Chatbot, Smart Home

• Project Management
  - Project Planning & Risk management,  Seed technology Discovery & Incubation, People Management & Empowerment, Global Networking & Collaboration 

Career

• Oct 2020  ~  Current LG AI Research Group Leader, AI Agent Research Group/Vice President
  Professor, LG AI Academy
                                                                                                          Member, Google Cloud AI Council

• Feb 2019  ~ Sep 2020 LG Electronics Task Leader of Voice Agent Task/Research Fellow

• Mar 2007  ~ Jan 2019 LG Electronics Project Leader of Natural Language Processing/Chief Research Engineer                                                                                            

• Mar 2003 ~ Feb 2007 LG Electronics Project Leader of Speech Synthesis/Senior Research Engineer

• Feb  2001 ~ Feb 2003    Voice Tech Senior Research Engineer of Text-To-Speech

• Sep  2000  ~ Jan 2001   L&H Korea Research Engineer of Text-To-Speech

Publication & Patent

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-oztA_QAAAAJ&hl=ko 

Education

• Ph.D cand, Electrical Engineering , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 

• MS, Electrical Engineering , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 

• BS, Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University

Achievement

• Projects

- Introducing ChatEXAONE : Enterprise AI Agent Boosting Corporate Efficiency with Expert AI Insights
    ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=458 )

- LG's EXAONE 3.5 listed in "Notable AI Models" by the U.S. nonprofit research organization Epoch AI
     ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=529)

- Open-sourcing Three EXAONE 3.5 Models : Frontier-level Model, Top-tier Performance in Instruction Following and Long Context Capabilities
  ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=507 )

- LG AI Research Unveils EXAONE 3.0 at ACL 2024
  ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=464 )

- KorQuAD 2.0 1st rank: Generative Model for Long Context Question Answering
  ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=374 )

- LG Demonstrates Competitiveness at 'Interspeech 2022', the Premier Conference in the Speech Processing
 ( https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=255 )

 - LG ThinQ Home in IFA 2020 - voice agent & user activity modeling in smart home
   (Youtube) LG ThinQ Home Tour featured by K pop star Henry youtu.be/3OrbsKC3Swk   

 - Chatbot & Voice bot for LGE's Customer service   
  (Korean)  https://social.lge.co.kr/technology/chatbot_interview/ 

- LG HomeChat for Smart Home  -  Editors' Choice Award in CES 2014, Outstanding project award in LGE CTO division, 2014
   (Korean) https://social.lge.co.kr/product/homechat/           (Youtube)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PplAymrv0hA 

- Voice Agent for Smart TV - World’s First Certificate of Validation, Very good feedback from customer
    http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2013/12/lg-recognized-for-advanced-speech-and-gesture-recognition-innovations/
    https://www.lg.com/hk_en/tv/ai-2019 

- Voice Agent for mobile - QVoice,  Jang Young-sil Award, Outstanding project award in LGE Mobile Communication division, 2013
  (Korean) https://social.lge.co.kr/product/lg-quickvoice/     (LG member only) Q보이스    (Korean) https://m.news.zum.com/articles/5470738

• Honor & Awards

- SQuAD(Stanford Question Answering Dataset) Challenge Rank No. 1, 2021
- KorQuAD(The Korean Question Answering Dataset) Challenge Rank No. 1, 2020
- Future 100 technologies and leading  engineer, The National Academy of Engineering of Korea, 2014
- Outstanding Engineer of the Year, Gold prize, CTO division in LG Electronics, 2014
- LG R&D Award 2013, Natural Language Processing technology for Intelligent Speech recognition, 2013
- Industrial Research 52, Jang Young-sil Award, Ministry of Science and ICT, 2013