activities

Invited Talks

  • 12/2023 Invited talk at Sogang University
  • 12/2023 Talk and Pannelist at ICEI 2023
  • 11/2023 Invited talk at GIST
  • 11/2023 Guest lecture at HKUST (DSA 6000I)
  • 11/2023 Invited talk at Korea University
  • 11/2023 Talk and Pannelist at NRC-KAIST Symposium
  • 11/2023 Guest lecture at Seoul National University (AI773)
  • 11/2023 Invited talk at K-Travel Tech Summit
  • 10/2023 Invited talk at KAIST & IBS
  • 10/2023 Invited talk at University of Tubingen
  • 09/2023 Keynote at 2023 IT21, Korea Information Processing Society
  • 09/2023 Invited talk at KAIST
  • 08/2023 Talk at NAVER DAN23
  • 05/2023 Invited talk at Seoul National University
  • 05/2023 Invited talk at the 2nd Forum on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Policy, organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
  • 04/2023 Invited talk at Intellectual Property High Court (대전특허법원)
  • 02/2023 Invited talk at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
Before 2023
  • Invited talk, 법률 인공지능 기술의 현황 및 생활법령정보 적용을 위한 제언, 찾기쉬운 생활 법령정보 세미나, 한국법령정보원, 법제처, Sep. 2022
  • Invited talk, 언어모델, 그리고 AI 윤리와 정책, SPRi, Sep. 2022
  • Invited talk, Ethical Problems in Language Models, Hanyang Univ. Sep. 2022
  • Pannel discussion, 법률인공지능의 현황과 미래, 한국인공지능법학회 하계공계세미나, Aug. 2022
  • Guest lecture, Ethical Problems in Language Models, Seoul National Univ., AI773 Jun. 2022
  • Guest lecture, Ethical Problems in Language Models, KAIST, AI599, Jun. 2022
  • Invited talk, Introduction to deep learning for dialogue systems, Inha Univ., Seoul, Oct. 2020
  • Invited talk, Introduction to deep learning for dialogue systems, Yeonsei Univ., Seoul, Jun. 2020, slide
  • Invited talk, Introduction to deep learning for dialogue systems, Sookmyung Women’s Univ., Seoul, Oct. 2019
  • Invited talk, Toward end-to-end neural dialog systems for multi-domain task completion, KAIST, Daejeon, Dec. 2019

Academic Services

  • Organizing Committee
  • Area Chair
    • NeurIPS Data & Benchmark 2023
  • Conference Reviewer
    • ARR 2021-2022
    • ACL 2021-2023
    • EMNLP 2021-2022
    • COLING 2020, 2022
    • NeurIPS 2021-2023
    • ICLR 2021-2024
    • WWW 2022
    • ACL’22 In2Writing workshop
  • Journal Reviewer
    • Speech Communication, 2019
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2017 - 2018
    • Neural Processing Letters, 2015
Misc.
  • Samsung Humantech Paper Awards Committee, 2020
  • Qualcomm Innovation Awards Committee, 2019

External Activities

  • 04/2023-present A committee member of the 2nd Forum on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Policy, organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (과기정통부 AI윤리포럼 기술분과 위원)

Honors and Awards

  • Annual Roll Award, KAIST EE, Apr. 2018
  • Ranked 3rd, ConvAI challenge, NIPS 2017 Competition Track Workshop, 2017
  • Challenge Winner, ICMI EmotiW2015, 2015
  • Best Paper Award, HAI, 2015
  • Qualcomm Innovation Award, 2015
    • Title: Active Learning for Large-scale Object Classification: from Exploration to Exploitation
  • BK21 Plus Financial Support for Graduates Long Term Training, May. 2014
    • Visiting student at BioPOETS lab, UC Berkeley, U.S., May. - Jun. 2014
  • KAIST Graduate Scholarship, Mar. 2013 - Aug. 2018
  • Australian Endeavour Student Exchange Grant (AUD$ 5000), The University of Queensland, Apr. 2011
  • National Excellence Scholarship, KOSAF, Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2012