Research Engineer & Project Manager

📍 Seoul, South Korea | 📧 [email protected] | 🔗 [LinkedIn] | 🎓 [Google Scholar]

Interests

• Generative AI: Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Models, Prompt Engineering
• Machine Learning: Recommender Systems, Knowledge Distillation, NLP

Professional Summary

Research Engineer and Program Manager with a track record of leading frontier LLM projects end-to-end — from architecture and data pipeline design to global benchmark performance. Led Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro to State-of-the-Art results on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (AAII). Brings rare depth on both sides: hands-on ML research grounding and the operational discipline to coordinate large, cross-functional teams under ambiguity. Experienced in building programs from scratch, driving compute resource planning, and keeping research organizations moving by the schedule.

Industry Experience

KT | Jan. 2023 - Present

• Research Engineer | **Jan. 2024 - Present
  • Project Manager, Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro Project
    • Orchestrated end-to-end development and strategic launch of Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro serving as the connective layer between data, training, and infrastructure teams with no established playbook.
    • Drove the model to SOTA performance on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (AAII) leaderboard for similar sized models, significantly enhancing reasoning and agentic capabilities.
    • Established milestone tracking and cross functional communication that kept delivery on schedule across distributed research and engineering teams.
  • Project Manager, Mi:dm Multimodal Model Project
    • Managing the development of the next generation multimodal model, integrating vision, sound, and language modalities — coordinating across data engineering, model training, and evaluation teams in a fast moving, ambiguous environment.
    • Managing resource allocation and coordinating data engineering and model training teams while driving strategic planning for model evaluation and task optimization.
  • Core R&D Contributions
    • Architected custom tokenizers and engineered high quality data acquisition pipelines for large scale model training.
    • Launched AI Genie, an in-house marketing service leveraging LLMs for creative copywriting and intelligent content curation.
• Assistant Research Engineer | Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2023
  • Developed Midm curation, a domain specific LLM tailored for marketing and media, leading to the successful beta launch of ‘AI Genie’ on Genie TV.
  • Optimized existing media recommender systems by distilling knowledge from KT’s Large AI Mi:dm.

Alchera Inc | Nov. 2018 - Feb. 2019

• Data Analyst Engineer (Intern)
  • Developed vision algorithm prototypes and data preprocessing pipelines using Python.

Education

Hanyang University | Seoul, South Korea

M.S. in Computer Science. | Sep. 2020 - Aug. 2022

• Cumulative GPA: 4.44 / 4.5 | Advisor: Prof. Sang-Wook Kim
• Thesis: DUET: Dually Guided Knowledge Distillation for Recommender Systems with Explicit Feedback
• Participated Projects
  • Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center of Samsung Electronics Inc.: Compiler-based Runtime Optimization Framework for Accelerating Multiple Machine Learning Applications
  • Institute for Information & communication Technology Planning & evaluation(IITP): Development of Implicit Information-Based Smart Media Analysis Technology

Hanyang University | Seoul, South Korea

B.A. in International Studies & B.S. in Computer Science. | Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2020