o (2008) B.S., Seoul National University
o (2010) M.S., The University of Texas at Austin
o (2013) Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

o Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Graduate School of AI / School of Computing (Mar 2022 ~ )
Associate Professor, Graduate School of AI / School of Computing (Mar 2020 ~ )
Assistant Professor, School of Computing (Jan 2018 ~ Feb 2020)
o Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea
Assistant Professor, School of Electric and Computer Engineering (Aug 2014 ~ Dec 2017)
o Disney Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computer Vision Group (Sep 2013 ~ Aug 2014)
o Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Research Intern, Interactive Media Group (June 2011 ~ Sep 2011)
Mentors: Sing Bing Kang, Ashish Kapoor
o SK Communications (Formerly EMPAS), Seoul, Korea
Lead Staff, Search Department (May 2005 ~ Jan 2007)

o Generative AIs and LLMs: language modeling, multi-modal foundation models, text-to-image synthesis
o Self-Evolving AI: neural network generation, code generation, self-training of LLMs, automatic research agents
o AI for scientific discovery: molecule generation, material discovery, protein representation learning
o On-device learning: neural network compression (pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation), online continual learning, federated learning
o Safe and secure learning: uncertainty modeling & quantification, robustness to distributional shifts, defense against diverse attacks

3/14/2024: Seven papers accepted to ICML 2024. I have 14 papers this year (7 ICML, 4 ICLR, 1 CVPR, 2 NAACL).
3/14/2024: Two papers accepted to NAACL 2024.
2/27/2024: One paper accepted to CVPR 2024.
1/17/2024: Four papers accepted to ICLR 2024.
10/8/2023: One papers accepted to EMNLP 2023 and two to EMNLP Findings. I have 29 papers this year (6 ICLR, 5 ICML, 4 NeurIPS, 2 ACL, 1 EMNLP, 1 CVPR, 1 ICCV, 1 UbiComp, 1 SaTML, 1 Interspeech, 1 ICASSP, 2 ACL Findings, 2 EMNLP Findings and 1 EACL).
9/22/2023: Four papers accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
8/21/2023: I will serve as an area chair for AAAI 2024 and ICLR 2024.
7/14/2023: One paper accepted to ICCV 2023.
5/18/2023: One paper accepted to Interspeech 2023.
5/2/2023: Two papers accepted to ACL 2023, and two to the Findings of ACL 2023.
4/25/2023: Five papers accepted to ICML 2023.
3/7/2023: I will serve as an area chair for NeurIPS 2023. I am also serving as an AC for ICML 2023/ICCV 2023, and as a reviewing chair for CoLLAs 2023.
2/28/2023: One paper accepted to CVPR 2023.
2/16/2023: One paper accepted to ICASSP 2023.
1/21/2023: Six papers accepted to ICLR 2023 (one spotlight)
12/21/2022: I will serve as an area chair for ICML 2023 and ICCV 2023. I also served as an area chair for ICLR 2023.
11/15/2022: One paper accepted to SaTML 2023.
9/15/2022: Four papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022. I have 21 papers this year (7 ICLR, 4 ICML, 4 NeurIPS, 2 AAAI, 1 CVPR, 1 ACL, 1 NAACL and 1 CVIU)
5/15/2022: Four papers accepted to ICML 2022.
4/8/2022: One paper accepted to NAACL 2022.
3/2/2022: I am appointed as a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor.
3/1/2022: One paper accepted to CVPR 2022.
2/28/2022: One paper accepted to ACL 2022 (short paper).
1/21/2022: Seven papers accepted to ICLR 2022 (1 oral, 1 spotlight).
12/1/2021: Two papers accepted to AAAI 2022.
9/30/2021: Five papers accepted to NeurIPS 2021 (two spotlights). I have 23 papers this year (5 NeurIPS, 5 ICML, 7 ICLR, 1 ACL, 1 ICCV, 2 AAAI, 1 IJCAI, and 1 Interspeech)
9/1/2021: I am officially tenured.
7/23/2021: One paper accepted to ICCV 2021.
5/8/2021: Five papers accepted to ICML 2021.
5/6/2021: One paper accepted to ACL 2021 (long paper).
4/29/2021: One paper accepted to IJCAI 2021.
1/13/2021: Seven papers accepted to ICLR 2021 (one spotlight).
12/02/2020: Two papers accepted to AAAI 2021. I am serving as an area chair for ICLR 2021, IJCAI 2021, ICML 2021, and NeurIPS 2021.
7/25/2020: Nine papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020 (one spotlight). I have 22 papers this year (9 NeurIPS, 4 ICML, 4 ICLR, 1 ACL, 1 EMNLP, 1 AAAI, 1 ICRA, and 1 Interspeech).
7/18/2020: Our paper “Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Inter-Client Consistency” received the Best student paper award at the ICML 2020 Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality.