Research Interests

My research interests lie in inference-time controllability and alignment, with a focus on methods that steer generative models toward safe and user-aligned outputs without requiring expensive retraining. Recently, I have been especially interested in safe generation and discrete diffusion.

Education

02/2019 - Present

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering & Computer Science (Double Major)

GPA: 3.87 / 4.3, Major GPA: 4.03 / 4.3

08/2025 - 12/2025

University of Portland

Exchange student, Department of Computer Science

GPA: 4.0 / 4.0, Dean's List

03/2017 - 02/2019

Chungnam Science High School

Early graduation

Publications

Awards

Sep 2025 Next-Generation Engineer, Grand Prize

IPESK

Fall 2024 Dean's List (Top 3%)

KAIST ISE

Dec 2022 Basic Military Training Honor Graduate (Ranked #3)

ROKAF, Class 842

Nov 2022 KAIST IE Frontier Encouragement Award

KAIST ISE

Spring 2022 Top Student Award (Ranked #2)

KAIST ISE

Fall 2020 Dean's List (Top 3%) and Top Student Award (Ranked #1)

KAIST ISE