Biography

He is currently the leader of Language Research team, which is the NLP group of NAVER AI LAB, and the technical leader of Conversation team, which is a NLP modeling group of NAVER CLOVA for chatbots, callbots, and large-scale NLU models. He has also been an adjunct professor at KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI (KAIST AI) since Oct 2021. His recent research interests include task-oriented dialogue, large-scale language models (GPT-3 scale), and a variety of other NLP tasks. When he joined Naver in July 2018, he founded and became the first member of DUET, an AI ARS project which is now extended to Contact Center AI (CCAI) project (AiCall, CareCall, …) [demo_jp] [demo_kr] [video] [news] in Naver and Line.

Latest News

• (22/04/08) 3 regular papers and 1 findings paper are accepted at NAACL 2022 from Langauge Research and Conversation team (including co-work).
• (22/03/04) Start a lecture, Special Topics in Machine Learning : Deep Learning and Real-world Applications, at KAIST AI (Spring 2022, AI599).
• (22/03/01) 2 findings papers are accepted at ACL 2022 from Langauge Research and Conversation team (including co-work).
• (21/10/26) 7 sessions from Conversation and Langauge Research will be presented in DEVIEW 2021.
• (21/10/11) 1 dataset track paper (KLUE) is accepted at NeurIPS 2021 from Language Research with co-working.
• (21/08/23) 2 regular papers (HyperCLOVA, BioLAMA) and 2 findings papers (GPT3Mix, SGL-KT) are accepted at EMNLP 2021 from Language Research and Conversation team (including co-work).
• (21/05/23) Announcing Korean GPT-3 at Naver AI Now. [link]
• (21/05/05) 3 regular papers (NeuralWOZ, Self-Guided CL, LAT) and 2 findings papers (SSMix, LOUVRE) are accepted at ACL 2021 from Language Research and Conversation team (including co-work). [link]