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 in Naver for chatbots, callbots, and large-scale NLU models. He is also an adjunct professor at KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI (KAIST GSAI). 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. In 2018, he received Ph.D. from Seoul National University under the supervision of Professor Byoung-Tak Zhang. In 2012, he received Bachelor of Engineering degree from Seoul National University. He received Korean Presidential Science Scholarship from 2008 to 2012.

Latest News

• (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]