
ABRA: Agent-Bound UI for Human-Agent Communication beyond Chat with Reusable Views
EMNLP 2026 Demo
Hello! I'm a Research Scientist at Megagon Labs working on human-centered AI. I received my Ph.D. from Georgia Tech where I worked with Haesun Park and Alex Endert.
I develop computational methods and interactive systems that help people explore data and collaborate with AI.
Recently, my research interests center on human–agent interaction: 1) how people collaborate with and steer agents; 2) how they communicate beyond chat; 3) how agents understand, adapt to, and represent users.
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Aug 2013 - May 2015
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning, GPA 4/4.0)
Mar 2011 - Aug 2013
Seoul National University
M.S. in Business Administration (Accounting)
Mar 2006 - Feb 2011
Seoul National University
B.S. in Mathematics (Minor in Business Administration)
Apr 2021 - Current
Megagon Labs
Research Scientist
May 2014 - Dec 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Disney Research
Research Intern
May 2016 - Aug 2016
IBM Research - Almaden
Research Intern

ABRA: Agent-Bound UI for Human-Agent Communication beyond Chat with Reusable Views
EMNLP 2026 Demo

A Dynamic Self-Evolving Extraction System
ACL 2026 Demo

How to Steer Your Multi-Agent System: Human-LLM Collaborative Planning
CAIS 2026, Best Artifact Award

Do Agents Need to Plan Step-by-Step? Rethinking Planning Horizon in Data-Centric Tool Calling
CAIS 2026, Industry Spotlight Award

Learning from Supervision with Semantic and Episodic Memory: A Reflective Approach to Agent Adaptation
CAIS 2026

RECAP: REwriting Conversations for Intent Understanding in Agentic Planning
EACL 2026 Findings

AIPOM: Agent-aware Interactive Planning for Multi-Agent Systems
EMNLP 2025 Demo

VeriLA: A Human-Centered Evaluation Framework for Interpretable Verification of LLM Agent Failures
CHI 2025 HEAL Workshop

Characterizing Large Language Models as Rationalizers of Knowledge-intensive Tasks
ACL 2024 Findings

A Blueprint Architecture of Compound AI Systems for Enterprise
Compound AI Systems Workshop at the Data+AI Summit 2024

Human‑LLM Collaborative Annotation Through Effective Verification of LLM Labels
CHI 2024

MEGAnno+: A Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation System
EACL 2024 Demo

Weedle: Composable Dashboard for Data-Centric NLP in Computational Notebooks
WWW 2023 Demo

Towards Transparent, Reusable, and Customizable Data Science in Computational Notebooks
CHI 2023 Late Breaking Work
MEGAnno: Exploratory Labeling for NLP in Computational Notebooks
EMNLP 2022 DaSH Workshop, Best Paper Award

Low-resource Interactive Active Labeling for Fine-tuning Language Models
EMNLP 2022 Findings


ArchiText: Interactive Hierarchical Topic Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2020

TopicSifter: Interactive Search Space Reduction through Targeted Topic Modeling
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2019

Understanding Actors and Evaluating Personae with Gaussian Embeddings
AAAI 2019

VisIRR: An Interactive Visual System for Information Retrieval and Recommendation for Large-scale Document Data
TKDD 2017

High-Recall Document Retrieval from Large-Scale Noisy Documents via Visual Analytics based on Targeted Topic Modeling
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2017 Poster

PIVE: Per-Iteration Visualization Environment for Real-time Interactions with Dimension Reduction and Clustering
AAAI 2017

AxiSketcher: Interactive Nonlinear Axis Mapping of Visualizations through User Drawings
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2016

Visualization by Demonstration: An Interaction Paradigm for Visual Data Exploration
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2016

InterAxis: Steering Scatterplot Axes via Observation-Level Interaction
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2015

Simultaneous Discovery of Common and Discriminative Topics via Joint Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
KDD 2015

Doubly Supervised Embedding Based on Class Labels and Intrinsic Clusters for High-Dimensional Data Visualization
Neurocomputing 2015
PIVE: Per-Iteration Visualization Environment for Supporting Real-time Interactions with Computational Methods
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2014 Poster, Best Poster Award
VisIRR: Visual Analytics for Information Retrieval and Recommendation for Large-Scale Document Data
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2014 Poster
Exploring Anomalies in GAStech: VAST Mini Challenge 1 and 2
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2014 VAST Challenge