Stanley Jungkyu, Choi

Skill

• 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 Lab Leader of Language Lab/Vice President, Professor of LG AI Academy, 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, Talk, Patent

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

- Lightweight feature encoder for wake-up word detection based on self-supervised speech representation, Hyungjun Lim, Younggwan Kim, Kiho Yeom, Eunjoo Seo, Hoodong Lee, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, Honglak Lee,  ICASSP 2023
- Context aware Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction with Domain-specific language model, CLEF 2022
- A Method of Automatic Data Construction for Unseen Values in Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking, Joongbo Shin, Gyeonghun Kim, Hyunjik Jo, Hosung Song,  Janghoo Han
Yireun Kim, Stanley Jungkyu Choi (LG AI Research), AAAI 2022 DSTC Workshop

     - External Knowledge Selection with Weighted Negative Sampling in Knowledge-grounded Task-oriented Dialogue Systems, Janghoon Han, Joongbo Shin, Hosung Song,             
      Hyunjik Jo, Gyeonghun Kim, Yireun Kim, Stanley Jungkyu Choi (LG AI Research), AAAI 2022 DSTC Workshop

     - TOWARDS CONTINUAL KNOWLEDGE LEARNING OF LANGUAGE MODELS, Joel Jang1, Seonghyeon Ye1, Sohee Yang1, Joongbo Shin2,Janghoon Han2, Gyeonghun             
      Kim2, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, Minjoon Seo1, 1KAIST AI 2LG AI Research, ICLR 2022
      - Utilizing multiple speech recognizers to improve spoken language understanding performance,  Stanley Jungkyu Choi,   Keyhwan Lee, Minsoo Hahn, IEEE ISCE 2014
      - Extrofitting: Enriching Word Representation and its Vector Space with Semantic Lexicons, Hwiyeol Jo, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for                NLP, 2018
      - KSAnswer: Question-answering System of Kangwon National University and Sogang University in the 2016 BioASQ Challenge, Hyeon-gu Lee, Minkyoung Kim, Harksoo Kim,             Juae Kim, Sunjae Kwon, Jungyun Seo, Yi-reun Kim, Jung-Kyu Choi, ACL Fourth BioASQ workshop, 2016

• Talk
  - Dialog agent for smart home,  International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology, 2015
  - Introduction of Voice Agent Technology Trends, POSTECH, 2019
  - Introduction of LG AI platform ThinQ,  AI Industry Standardization Workshop, Korea Agency for Technology and Standards, 2019

• Patent
  - MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, EP3289755/US10587742
  - Electronic device and method for controlling the same, US10009645
  - Method and electronic device for easy search during voice record, US20130311186

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

- EXAONE(Large-scale Language Model), MRC/QA, Deep Document Understanding,  Text Aanlytics, Dialog System in LG AI  Research
   https://www.lgresearch.ai/kor/ourwork/research/?tab=PB

 - 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