Awards & Honors

This page summarizes my academic, research, and service-related awards and recognitions.

Research & Paper Awards

• Nov 18, 2025, Best Paper Runner-up Award (삼성전자 DS부문 산학협력 우수논문상 우수상) (3M KRW), KAIST–Samsung Industry-Academic Collaboration

• Jan 21, 2025, Merit Academic Paper Award (연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2024년 2학기 장려상), Yonsei University

• Oct 29, 2024, First Prize (최우수상), Business Idea Competition (Paper Track), Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute

• Jul 23, 2024, Merit Academic Paper Award (연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2024년 1학기 장려상), Yonsei University

• Jan 10, 2024, Excellent Academi Paper Award (연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2023년 2학기 학과우수논문상), Yonsei University

• Feb 2, 2021, Runner-up Best Paper Award (우수논문상), the 23rd Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE 2021)

• Dec 7, 2019, Excellence Award (우수상), Software Engineering Day, Department of Software Engineering, Jeonbuk National University

  • Won the Excellence Award as a team 'CHIMERA’ for developing “CHIMERA Stance Detector (Extension) for Fake News and Clickbaits in real world.”

• Jun, 2019, Silver Prize for Outstanding Paper Award (은상), 2019 College Student Paper Competition, Korean Institute of Information Technology [News Article]

  • Paper: Analysis of Correlation Between Internet Article Headlines and Body Text Software Module: CHIMERA

Fellowships & Scholarships

• Mar, 2026, Jang Young Sil Fellow Program, Excellence Track (60M KRW), KAIST

• Dec, 2024, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea 2024 Winner (4M KRW, approx. 2.8K USD), Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

• May, 2023, Graduate Student Research Assistantship (GSRA), Yonsei University

• Jan, 2023, Academic Research Fellowship (ARF), Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Program, Yonsei University

• Nov, 2022, Graduate Student Research Assistantship (GSRA), Yonsei University

• Sep, 2022, Academic Research Fellowship (ARF), Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Program, Yonsei University

• Apr, 2022, Graduate Student Research Assistantship (GSRA), Yonsei University

• Aug 28, 2020, Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate (총장상(우수졸업생)), Jeonbuk National University

• Aug 10, 2018, National Scholarship for Science and Engineering (국가우수(이공계)장학생), Ministry of Science and ICT

• Feb 28, 2018, Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (총장상(성적우수상)), Jeonbuk National University

• Mar 10, 2017, Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (성적우수상), Jeonbuk National University

Reviewing & Service Awards

• May, 2026, Gold Reviewer Award, ICML 2026

• Jun, 2025, Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%), KDD 2025 (February Cycle)

• Dec, 2024, Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%), KDD 2025 (August Cycle)

• Nov, 2024, Top Reviewer Award, LoG 2024

• Nov, 2024, Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS 2024

• Dec 22, 2023, Certificate of Appreciation (감사장: 우수연구실적발표), Korea Software Congress (KSC)

• Jun 18, 2023, Certificate of Appreciation (감사장: 우수연구실적발표), Korea Computer Congress (KCC)

• Jul 1, 2022, Certificate of Appreciation (감사장: 우수연구실적발표), Korea Computer Congress (KCC)