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Ph.D. in Engineering

Seoul National University, Korea

• Advised by Nojun Kwak

Bachelor in Food Science Technology (Minor in Industrial Engineering)

Seoul National University, Korea

Applied Research Scientist

Krafton

• Developing embodied AI agents for real-time interactive gameplay in PUBG.

  • Designed and deployed on-device agent architecture for responsive player interaction.
  • Prototype demonstrated at CES 2025, showcasing novel applications of embodied AI in gaming.

Research Intern

Naver Webtoon

• Contributed to Character Chat an AI chatbot service mimicking webtoon characters’ personalities and speech styles (used by over 3.3M users)

  • Focused on data generation, hallucination evaluation, and improving character alignment for immersive, in-world dialogue.
  • Implemented pretraining of a small-scale LM from Korean data collection and preprocessing.

  Conducted research in copyright protection

  • LLM watermarking and copyright protection for text-to-image models (1 paper at NAACL 2024 and 1 at CVPR 2025).
  • Placed 3rd in “N Innovation 2023”, an internal competition for novel AI-driven services across Naver.

Research Intern

Naver Webtoon

• Research in natural language watermarking (1 paper in ACL 23)