He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Srijan Kumar.
He is an EB-1B (Outstanding Professors and Researchers) green card holder.
He had received Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Fellowship from 2019 to 2024.
He also won 2021 ML@GT fellowship, 2021 Twitch Research Fellowship, 2018 Samsung HumanTech Best Paper Award, 2018 SNU Undergraduate Thesis Award, 2017 Korean National Scholarship, and Silver Medal in APIO 2011.
He has published 10+ referred articles in top GenAI/ML/RecSys venues.
His research interests include Generative AI, Foundation Models, Multimodal LLMs, Recommender Systems, and Adversarial Machine Learning.