Summary
Donghyun Kwak is a machine learning leader with a decade of experience building applied AI systems across industry and research, currently heading Physical AI for humanoid robots at KRAFTON. He previously led Alignment Learning and Safety for HyperCLOVA X at NAVER Cloud, driving post-training research, technical reports, and open-source releases while operating production dialogue and retrieval/generation systems. His background spans reinforcement-learning market-making bots, GNN recommender systems, task-oriented and spoken dialogue, and leading a deployed healthcare voice service (CLOVA CareCall). A PhD candidate in an interdisciplinary neuroscience program at Seoul National University with dual undergraduate training in computer science and life sciences, he blends neuroscience-informed thinking with product-driven ML engineering. He also brings entrepreneurial product experience from co-founding mobile game startups, giving him a rare mix of research rigor, system-level deployment expertise, and product intuition.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Interdisciplinary program in Neuroscience, PhD Candidate Interdisciplinary program in Neuroscience at Seoul National University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Life Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Life Science at Sogang University
Korean, English