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General Information

Full Name Yejin Kim (김예진)
Email yjkim.stat@yonsei.ac.kr
Phone +82-10-6201-6009
Location Seoul, Republic of Korea
Homepage yejin109.github.io
GitHub github.com/yjkim-stat
Study Archive Notion

Education

  • 2023.09 - Present
    Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Science
    Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    • Advisor: Jy-yong Sohn
    • GPA: 4.14 / 4.3
  • 2017.03 - 2023.08
    B.S. in Applied Statistics and Data Science
    Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    • GPA: 3.83 / 4.3

Experience

  • 2026.02 - Present
    Research Intern
    Krafton, Seoul
  • 2024.01 - 2024.02
    Research Intern
    Linq, Seoul
    • Developed a text embedding model using Mistral 7B
    • Conducted experiments on MTEB benchmark dataset
    • Contributed to a technical report
  • 2022.07 - 2023.08
    Research Intern (Vocational Training Program)
    SAP Labs Korea, Seoul
    • Implemented Neurocard, a data-driven cost estimation model for query optimization
    • Built APIs to be incorporated in the database system

Research Experience

  • 2025.05 - Present
    Ph.D. Student
    IITP — AGI Project for the Era of Human-AI Companions, Seoul
    • Developed APIs supporting RAG and Multi-Agent Debate system
    • Conducted experiments on the AGIEval benchmark, achieving performance comparable to GPT-4 on the LSAT domain
  • 2021.07 - 2022.06
    Undergraduate Researcher
    MIDaS Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul
    • Researched data importance-aware scheduling to exploit diversity in distributed data settings
    • Designed and evaluated scheduling algorithms

Teaching Experience

  • 2024.09
    Teaching Assistant — Introduction to Information Theory for Data Science
    Yonsei University
  • 2023.09
    Teaching Assistant — Introduction to Optimization for Data Science
    Yonsei University
  • 2022.07
    Academic Affairs Chair, Data Science Lab (Undergraduate Academic Society)
    Yonsei University

Publications

  • 2025
    Measuring Representational Shifts in Continual Learning: A Linear Transformation Perspective
    ICML
    • Joonkyu Kim, Yejin Kim, Jy-yong Sohn
  • 2025
    Aligning large language models for cognitive behavioral therapy: a proof-of-concept study
    Frontiers in Psychiatry
    • Yejin Kim, Chi-Hyun Choi, Selin Cho, Jy-yong Sohn, Byung-Hoon Kim
  • 2024
    ERD: A Framework for Improving LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortion Classification
    ClinicalNLP
    • Sehee Lim, Yejin Kim, Chi-Hyun Choi, Jy-yong Sohn, Byung-Hoon Kim

Conference Presentations

  • 2024
    ERD: A Framework for Improving LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortion Classification
    NAACL'24, Mexico City

Projects

Research Interests

  • Inference algorithms for large language models
  • Multi-agent systems

Technical Skills

  • Machine Learning / Deep Learning
    • PyTorch
    • HuggingFace Transformers
    • Embedding Models
    • Inference optimization
    • Prompt engineering
  • Programming & Tools
    • Python
    • Flask
    • Git
    • Linux

Languages

Korean Native
English Fluent