Biography

He is currently an independent researcher in London. Previously, he served as program leader and executive director at NAVER Cloud, developing HyperCLOVA X, NAVER’s flagship large language model, and Korean AI agents, including CLOVA X. Before that, he was the leader of Language Research team, which is the NLP group of NAVER AI LAB, and the technical leader of Conversation team, which was an NLP modeling group of NAVER CLOVA for chatbots, callbots, and HyperCLOVA. When he joined NAVER CLOVA in July 2018, he founded and became the first member of DUET, an AI ARS project which is now extended to Contact Center AI (CCAI) project (AiCall, CareCall, …) at NAVER and Line.