Hello! I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Cornell University advised by Prof. Alexander Rush. My research interests lie in the broad field of machine learning and natural language processing, particularly in building an efficient language understanding system.
Current research directions
Efficient and collaborative machine learning systems
Algorithm and system co-design for accelerating language model training and inference in terms of computation/memory/data
Building a system of small, specialized models communicating and collaborating toward a common goal
News
🔥 Oct 2023: One paper got accepted to NeurIPS 2023 - Tanh Works Better with Asymmetry.
🔥 May 2023: I was selected as an ML and Systems Rising Star 2023.
Publications
SEAL: Suite for Evaluating API-use of LLMs
Woojeong Kim, Ashish Jagmohan, Aditya Vempaty
NeurIPS Workshop Open-World Agents, 2024
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Preprints
Reprune: Filter Pruning via Representative Election
Mincheol Park, Woojeong Kim, Suhyun Kim
ArXiv Preprint, 2020
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Education
Cornell University, NY, USA (Aug 2021 - Present)
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Mar 2014 - Feb 2019)
Bachelor of Arts in Applied Statistics
Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering
University at Albany, SUNY, NY, USA, (Jan 2016 - May 2016)
Exchange Student, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Experience
Emergence AI, NY, USA (May 2024 – Aug 2024)
Research Intern
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (May 2019 – Jul 2021)
Research Intern, AI and Robotics Institute
Member of KIST Data Science Team
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Oct 2017 - Aug 2018)
Undergraduate Research Intern, Data Engineering Laboratory
Advisor: Professor Sanghyun Park
Honors & Awards
ML and Systems Rising Star 2023, ML Commons, May 2023
Best Paper Award, AI and Robotics Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Mar 2021
Semester Honors, Yonsei University, Mar 2018
Next Century Humanities Scholarships, Korea Student Aid Foundation, Mar 2014 - Feb 2018
Grand Prize ($25,000), KT Artificial Intelligence Novel Contest, Korea Telecom, Aug 2018
Second Prize, Yonsei Data Science Contest, Yonsei University, Oct 2018
Third Prize, Big Data Contest, Severance Hospital, Mar 2018
Third Prize, Data Science Contest, National Information Society Agency, Nov 2017
A little bit about myself
My first name "우정" means "friendship" in Korean.
I love cooking, baking, and playing tennis!