Sungju Kim
AI Research Engineer, Tech Lead at 네이버클라우드(NAVER Cloud)
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolSungju Kim is an AI research engineer and tech lead based in Seoul with eight years of experience building production-grade NLP and dialogue systems and leading applied research for large language models. At NAVER and NAVER Cloud he drove projects from neural information retrieval and QA to large-scale autoregressive models like HyperCLOVA X, and recently led a team to deliver an internal Copilot-like coding assistant for developers. His current focus blends reinforcement learning with LLM agents to boost software engineering capabilities, combining research rigor with product delivery. Sungju’s background spans computer vision and OCR to embedding-based out-of-domain detection, reflecting a rare cross-domain fluency that helps bridge research, data engineering, and deployment. He maintains an active technical presence via GitHub and a personal site, signaling ongoing commitment to open research and reproducible engineering.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Kyungpook National University
English, Korean
Github Skills (1)
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NaverCloudPlatform/nks-alb-ingress-controller
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 10 months
hangsubmin/pokedex-api
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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