Seohyun Back
Research Engineer at Samsung Research, AI Center
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolSeohyun Back is a research engineer at Samsung Research AI Center and a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at KAIST with 11 years of experience building state-of-the-art deep learning systems for NLP and multi-modal tasks. Her work includes top-ranked machine reading comprehension models (MS MARCO and TriviaQA 1st places, strong SQuAD and NarrativeQA results) and a novel training method for vision-language representation learning. She has delivered applied AI across products—from Bixby rejection modules to an indoor pointing system acquired by Samsung Mobile—and has a history of shipping end-to-end speech and dialogue solutions. Combining academic rigor with product-focused engineering, she also maintains hands-on expertise in building ML libraries and reproducible research baselines. Based in Seoul, she is advised by Prof. Jaegul Choo and balances cutting-edge research with practical deployment experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Big Data Convergence, Master of Engineering - MEng, Big Data Convergence at 고려대학교Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at 성균관대학교
Korean, English
Github Skills (84)
natural-language-understanding9
pointer9
nlp8
acl8
gps-tracker8
measurement8
indoor-positioning8
natural-language-processing8
google8
summarization8
lda7
falcon7
java7
sentiment7
synthetic6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
becxer/zshrc
Mar 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
becxer/pytrain
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:153 commits, 142 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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