Youngin Cho

NCSOFT Research Engineer
choyi0521 at gmail dot com ([email protected])
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About Me

I obtained Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Subsequently, I pursued a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at KAIST under the guidance of Jaegul Choo. My research interests lie in the areas of machine learning and computer vision. Especially, my recent studies focus on time series forecasting and image generation with minimal supervision. I find particular fascination in exploring intriguing algorithms and mathematical theories, often deriving inspiration for my research pursuits from these areas.

Work Experience

NCSOFT Applied AI Lab · Research Engineer

Mar. 2023 - Present

Kakao Corp Recommendation Team · Internship
Piccoma webtoon recommendation system
- Designed and implemented collaborative/content-based filtering, contextual bandit algorithms
- Related Skills: Python, Tensorflow, MongoDB, RocksDB, Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka

Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2019

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 2021 - Feb. 2023

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2021

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (double major)

Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2021

Awards & certifications

Advanced to ICPC World Finals Moscow Invitational Contest

Sep. 30, 2021

2019 ACM-ICPC Seoul regional 3rd place

Nov. 9, 2019

2018 ACM-ICPC Jakarta regional silver

Nov. 12, 2018

2018 ACM-ICPC Seoul regional 5th place

Nov. 3, 2018

2018 ACM-ICPC KAIST competition gold

Oct. 6, 2018

2018 KAKAO code festival 4th place

Aug. 25, 2018

2018 Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup 5th place

Jul. 31, 2018

2017 ACM-ICPC Daejeon regional 5th place

Nov. 11, 2017

2017 KAKAO code festival 5th place

Sep. 9, 2017

Teaching Experience

Conducted mentoring for undergraduate students at KAIST in the Programming course

Feb. 2018 - Dec. 2018

Taught Incheon Science High School students as a Korea Olympiad in Informatics lecturer

Jun. 2018 - Jul. 2018

Extra-Curricular Activities

Wrote posts in the Samsung Software Membership blog [Link]
Provided solutions for programming problems (>1K) [Link]