Teaching & Talks
Invited talks, courses I have taught or assisted, and students I have mentored.
Invited talks
Sep 21, 2026
Metacognition for Self-Improving Agents: Who Judges the Judge, Who Improves the Improver
Seminar Talk · Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University
Jul 28, 2022
Iterative text revision, machine translation, and discourse relations
Seminar Talk · Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University
Presented research on iterative text revision, machine translation, and discourse relations.
Dec 2, 2021
Cross-Lingual Discourse Analysis and Its Application
Colloquium Talk · Graduate School of Software, KAIST
Oct 12, 2018
Nov 11, 2016
Processing and utilizing textual data for Bibly, a book recommendation service
Seminar Talk · Rye & Catchers
Talked about how textual data can be processed and utilized by Bibly, the company's book recommendation service.
Teaching
Spring 2025
Natural Language Processing (CSCI 5541)
Lecturer · University of Minnesota
- Guest lecture, Apr 1, 2025: LLMs as Agents
Fall 2024
Intro. to Computer Programming in Java (CSCI 1103)
Head Teaching Assistant · University of Minnesota
Fall 2024
Natural Language Processing (CSCI 5541)
Lecturer · University of Minnesota
- Guest lecture, Oct 31, 2024: LLMs as Agents
Spring 2024
Natural Language Processing (CSCI 5541)
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer · University of Minnesota
- Guest lecture, Apr 2, 2024: Instructing and Augmenting LLMs
Fall 2023
Natural Language Processing (CSCI 5541)
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer · University of Minnesota
- Guest lecture, Nov 21, 2023: Advanced Topics: Instructing and Augmenting LLMs
Sept 2022
Elice Digital Transformation Training
Lecturer · Samsung Electronics
Winter 2022
Advanced Language Processing Winter School 2022
Teaching Assistant
Winter 2021
Advanced Language Processing Winter School 2021
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2021
Academic-Industrial Collaboration Project
Mentor · Chungbuk National University
Summer 2021
Three seminars on NLP trends and practical sessions
Lecturer · Rye & Catchers
Fall 2016
Elice AI & Data Science Course
Teaching Assistant · Daejeon Creative Economy Innovation Center
Fall 2015
Introduction to AI (CS470)
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer · KAIST
- Guest lecture, Sep 2, 2015: Extracting travel-related intents from textual review data
Summer 2015
Machine Learning Summer Camp 2015 (Online)
Teaching Assistant · KAIST
Spring 2015
Programming Practice (CS109)
Teaching Assistant · KAIST
Mentees
Summer 2026 – Present
Shady Ali
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Summer 2025 – Spring 2026
Yuxin Chen
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: MS in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
Spring 2025
Yangfan He
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Spring 2024 – Spring 2025
Robert Jia
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: Software Engineer at Microsoft
Summer 2024 – Spring 2025
Bin Hu
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: MS in Computer Science, University of Maryland
Spring 2024 – Spring 2025
Ryan Koo
MS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: Software Engineer at Amazon
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Preston Zhu
BS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: Software Engineer at Meta
Spring 2022
Josh Spitzer-Resnick
MS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now: Solventum Healthcare