Awards & Honors

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

Research & Paper Awards

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

• Merit Academic Paper Award [Certificate]
  Yonsei University, 연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2024년 2학기 장려상, Jan 21, 2025.

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

• Merit Academic Paper Award [Certificate]
  Yonsei University, 연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2024년 1학기 장려상, Jul 23, 2024.

• Excellent Academic Paper Award [Certificate]
  Yonsei University, 연세대학교 대학원 혁신우수논문상 2023년 2학기 학과우수논문상, Jan 10, 2024.

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

• Excellence Award [Certificate]
  Jeonbuk National University, Software Engineering Day, Department of Software Engineering, 우수상, Dec 7, 2019.
  Won the Excellence Award as a team 'CHIMERA’ for developing “CHIMERA Stance Detector (Extension) for Fake News and Clickbaits in real world.”

• Silver Prize for Outstanding Paper Award [Certificate] [News Article]
  Korean Institute of Information Technology, 2019 College Student Paper Competition, 은상, Jun 2019.
  Paper: Analysis of Correlation Between Internet Article Headlines and Body Text Software Module: CHIMERA

Fellowships & Scholarships

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement [Certificate]
  Jeonbuk National University, 성적우수상, Mar 10, 2017.

Reviewing & Service Awards

• Gold Reviewer Award [Certificate]
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), May 2026.

• Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%) [List]
  ACM SIGKDD (KDD 2025, February Cycle), Jun 2025.

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

• Top Reviewer Award [Certificate]
  Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG 2024), Nov 2024.

• Top Reviewer Award [Certificate]
  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), Nov 2024.