Yukyung Lee ☕️
Yukyung Lee

Postdoctoral Associate

Boston University (tinlab.)

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I am postdoctoral associate at Boston University, working with Prof. Najoung Kim and Prof. Sebastian Schuster. I received my Ph.D. from Korea University, advised by Prof. Pilsung Kang. During my Ph.D, I was research intern at NAVER and contributed to CLOVA for Writing. I completed my B.S. at HUFS, advised by Prof. Chungmok Lee

My research centers on Applied NLP, with a long-term vision of ‘Building Goal-Oriented Language Intelligence with Robust Evaluation’. My current interests include Language Model Evaluation, Agent, Writing with AI, Conversational AI, and Anomaly Detection.

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Interests
  • Language Model Evaluation
  • Agent
  • Writing with AI
  • Conversational AI
  • Anomaly Detection
Education

  • PhD Industrial Management and Engineering

    Korea University

  • BSc Industrial Management and Engineering & International Finance

    Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

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Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Associate

    Boston University

  2. Visiting Lecturer

    Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
    • Class : Special Topics in Industrial Systems Engineering (T02459101)
    • Topic: Natural Language Processing

  3. Research Intern

    NAVER
    • Topic : Writing with AI
    • Contributed to CLOVA for Writing
    • Additional Research Collaboration (Aug 2023 - Apr 2024)

  4. Education Mentor

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    • Generative AI Mentor (6th, Teaching: Pilsung Kang)
    • Natural Language Processing Mentor (4th)
    • Machine Reading Comprehension Mentor (2nd, Teaching: Minjoon Seo)
    • Dialogue State Tracking Mentor (1st, Teaching: Sundong Kim)

Education

  1. PhD Industrial Management and Engineering

    Korea University
    Thesis : Developing Goal-Oriented Language Intelligence with Robust Evaluation
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  2. BSc Industrial Management and Engineering & International Finance

    Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
    Summacum Laude
Recent Publications
Jaehee Kim, Yukyung Lee, Pilsung Kang (2024). A Gradient Accumulation Method for Dense Retriever under Memory Constraint. arXiv Preprint.
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Yukyung Lee, Soonwon Ka, Bokyung Son, Pilsung Kang, Jaewook Kang (2024). Navigating the Path of Writing: Outline-guided Text Generation with Large Language Models. arXiv Preprint.
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Yukyung Lee, Joonghoon Kim, Jaehee Kim, Hyowon Cho, Pilsung Kang (2024). CheckEval: Robust Evaluation Framework using Large Language Model via Checklist. HEAL@CHI2024.
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Yukyung Lee, Takyoung Kim, Hoonsang Yoon, Pilsung Kang, Junseong Bang, Misuk Kim (2024). DSTEA: Improving Dialogue State Tracking via Entity Adaptive Pre-training. In Knowledge-Based System (IF = 8.8) and KnowledgeNLP@KDD 2023.
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Gunho No, Yukyung Lee, Hyeongwon Kang, Pilsung Kang (2024). RAPID: Training-free Retrieval-based Log Anomaly Detection with PLM considering Token-level information. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF = 8.0).
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