News
Aug 2025: Three papers (CLEANMOL, MT-MOL, CORE-PO) got accepted to EMNLP 2025 (1 Main, 2 Findings).
Jul 2025: I've started my internship at Valence Labs — looking forward to connecting in Montreal!
May 2025: A paper (MSR) got accepted to ACL 2025 (Main).
Dec 2024: HGGT got honored to be the winner at Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
Sep 2024: A paper (PBP-GFN) got accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
Apr 2024: A paper (HNeR-S) got accepted to ICML 2024.
Apr 2024: I became a recipient of the Presidential Science Scholarship.
Jan 2024: HGGT won the Bronze prize in Samsung Humantech Paper Awards.
Jan 2024: Two papers (HGGT, GEEL) got accepted to ICLR 2024.
Education
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KAIST, Graduate school of AI, Ph.D.
Mar. 2025 - PresentSupervised by Sungsoo Ahn
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POSTECH, Graduate school of AI, M.S.
Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2025Supervised by Sungsoo Ahn
A member of Machine Learning Lab
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RWTH, Computer sciences, exchange student
Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2020 -
POSTECH, Industrial & management enginerring, B.S
Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2020
Work Experience
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Valence Labs (Recursion pharmaceuticals)
Jul. 2025 - Dec. 2025Research Intern
Conducted research on constructing LLM agent for reasoning and developing reasoning models for virtual cells
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Netmarble
Jul. 2018 - Aug. 2018Intern, AI research center
Project: User Activity Sequence Representation Learning and Classification using LSTM
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Joycity
Jun. 2017 - Aug. 2017Intern, BT Team
Publications
INDIBATOR: Diverse and Fact-Grounded Individuality for Multi-Agent Debate in Molecular Discovery
Under review
Improving Chemical Understanding of LLMs via SMILES parsing
EMNLP 2025 (Main)
Structural Reasoning Improves Molecular Understanding of LLM
ACL 2025 (Main)
Honors and Awards
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Winner, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea, 2024
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Recipient, Preseidential Sceince Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2024 - Present
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Recipient, ICLR Travel Awards, 2024
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Bronze Prize, Samsung Humantech Paper Awards, 2023
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Recipient, POSTECHIAN Fellowship, 2022-2023
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Recipient, Chun Sin-il Sejung Group Fellowship, 2020-2022
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Cum Laude Honor, POSTECH, 2020
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Recipient, Presidential Science Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, 2015-2020
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Recipient, RWTH Aachen University Exchange Scholarship, 2019
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Recipient, Realize Your Dream Scholarship by Blizzard Entertainment, 2018
Academic Services
Reviewer: NeurIPS 2023-2025, ICLR 2024-2026, ICML 2024-2025, AAAI 2025-2026