Projects

Research and engineering projects.

Projects and research engineering. Selected works appear on the home page.


2024–2025 — AI/ML Engineering (Upstage AI Lab)

Upstage AI Lab — AI/ML Engineering Competitions (5 tracks)

Upstage AI Lab · 2024–2025

Completed 5 ML engineering competitions across diverse domains:

  • 🥇 1st / 39 Chemical-Process Anomaly Detection — Unsupervised fault detection on 52-dimensional industrial sensor data. F1 0.90 / Acc 0.94
  • 2nd / 24 Text-Based Sentiment Analysis — Aspect-based sentiment on Korean social media. F1 0.72
  • 🥉 3rd / 53 Scientific RAG QA — Science retrieval & QA (SBERT, BGE-M3, BM25, FAISS). mAP 0.84
  • 🥉 3rd / 48 Document-Type Classification — 17-class doc image classification. Macro-F1 0.92
  • 🥉 3rd / 19 Tabular Prediction: Used Car Price — (LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost). RMSE 13,760

Common stack: PyTorch · HuggingFace · Hydra · W&B · Optuna · FAISS · LangChain

LLM-Based Parenting Coach — Dialogue Quality Assessment & Plan Recommendation

Upstage AI Lab × ConnectsLab · 2025

Multi-step LLM pipeline for parent-child dialogue analysis. Family persona generation → dialogue simulation → 4-D quality scoring → personalized plan recommendation via multi-LLM ensemble (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama).

Stack: LangChain · Hydra · W&B · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google AI · Ollama

Walk-into-AI — MLOps Pipeline Template

Independent · 2025

Production-ready MLOps template with Hydra + W&B + DVC integration. GitHub


2022–2024 — Startup & Industry (ACTNOVA)

ACTNOVA — AI Behaviour Analytics Platform

Co-Founder & R&D Lead · 2022–2024

Co-founded a NeuroAI startup (₩4.3B pre-Series A). Built YOLOv8 + XGBoost pipeline for automated behavioral phenotyping; reduced expert analysis time by 70%. Standardized multi-lab data pipeline and annotation platform across KAIST, MIT, and Broad Institute.


2021 — Neuroscience × Art

Project Doona Bae

Neuroscience · Book chapter · 2021

Behavioral and fMRI study of actress Doona Bae's empathic abilities, published in the book Actress Doona Bae. Examined neural correlates of screen performance and empathic resonance.


2018 — Vision AI

Grand Prize (DDSA) NAS-Optimized CNN for Driver Monitoring with XAI

Hyundai-KIA / ETRI Challenge · 2018

Neural Architecture Search for real-time driver drowsiness detection. Integrated Grad-CAM explainability for regulatory compliance. Won Grand Prize (DDSA) + Encouragement Prize (ETRI).