About me

Appointments#

Current#

• Associate Professor EE@POSTECH (adj. AI, DST Semi)
  2022.03–Present
• Director, POSTECH Extremely Efficient ML Center
  2025.02–Present

Previous#

• • Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google
    2023.09–2025.08
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EE@KAIST (전문연구요원)
  Host: Jinwoo Shin
  2019.03–2022.03
• ASAN Fellow, Center for Data Analysis @ The Heritage Foundation
  Host: Salim Furth, James Sherk
  2013.05–2013.07

Education#

• Ph.D. (2019). Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Advisor: Maxim Raginsky
  Thesis: “Robustness and Generalization Guarantees for Statistical Learning of Generative Models”

• M.S. (2015). Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Advisor: Maxim Raginsky
  Thesis: “MMSE estimation from Quantized Observations in the Nonasymptotic Regime”

• B.S. (2013). Electrical Engineering, Management Science (double major)
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  Honor: Summa cum laude

Talks (selected)#

• Tutorial, KICS Fall Conference, Gyeongju (2023.11.22)
  “Compressing Giant Neural Networks”
• Talk, Optimization & Machine Learning Workshop, UNIST (2023.08.24)
  “Problems that Arise in the Optimization of Neural Fields”
• Tutorial, KAIA Summer Conference, Yeosu (2023.07.17)
  “Recent Trends in Neural Data Compression: From Generative Models to Neural Fields”
• Tutorial, Korea SatCom Forum, Seoul (2023.05.31)
  “Recent Trends in Large Language Models”

Miscellaneous Writings#

Greece: Austerity Doesn’t Involve Public-Sector Layoffs
Jaeho Lee
The Daily Signal, 2013 (The Orange County Register, 2013)

나만의 목표, 나만의 기준
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동아일보: 내가 만난 명문장, 2022

어떤 연구를 할지 모르겠어요
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포항공대신문: 노벨동산, 2023