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 various papers in top GenAI/ML/RecSys venues.
His research interests include Generative AI, Foundation Models, Multimodal LLMs, AI Safety and Alignment, and Recommender Systems.