AI products, data-centric research, and shipped systems.
Samsung Research, Data Intelligence Team. I connect research to shipped products across LLM post-training, data-centric AI, AI Vision Inside for refrigerators, Smart TV content recognition, vision AI, and recommender systems.
Awards
5 individual and company awards · 6 product award contributions
- Samsung Super Rookie Project Company-wide selection · ranked 1st among new hires
- Samsung Research CTO Awards Top project of the year at Samsung Research
- Samsung Work Smart Contest — Encouragement Prize CFO Awards · project with outstanding cross-team collaboration
- CES 2024 Innovation Award Product award contribution — AI Vision Inside CES ↗
- Samsung Annual Awards — Gold Lead Engineer, AI Vision Inside
- Samsung SW Awards — Grand Prize (CEO Award) Ranked 1st company-wide · principal awardee
- Korea Innovation Awards — Convergence Innovation Product award contribution KSA ↗
- IDEA 2024 Product award contribution
- CES 2025 Innovation Awards Product award contribution — AI Vision Inside 2.0 / Family Hub 2025
- Korea Innovation Awards — New Technology Innovation Product award contribution Article ↗
- CES 2026 Innovation Awards Core food-recognition features, led Gemini-integrated service, wrote the CES entry
Patents
77 filings across countries and routes · 29 granted worldwide
- US20260104197A1 Refrigerator and controlling method thereof Captures items in and out, guides additional images, stores food data Patent ↗
- KR20250154875A Server device and controlling method thereof Collects on-device AI results from refrigerators, diagnoses performance, ships model-update data Patent ↗
- KR20250032790A Refrigerator and controlling method thereof Food detection and tracking, in/out decisions, feature and image database Patent ↗
- KR20240109129A Method and apparatus for providing promotions using reinforcement learning Purchase-intent-driven product bundles and discount rates Patent ↗
- KR20230032843A Electronic device and controlling method of electronic device SR-GCL session-graph augmentation and recommender training Patent ↗
- KR20220052779A Electronic device and controlling method of electronic device Vision-AI image outpainting with segmentation Patent ↗
- KR102546026B1 Electronic apparatus and method of obtaining contents recognition information thereof Text- and fingerprint-based content recognition Patent ↗
- KR102721107B1 Method and terminal for recognizing a text Screen-image text recognition with language tags for multilingual input UIs Patent ↗
Publications
3 published · 2 under review
- Human Face 3D Reconstruction with Handheld Single 2D Camera on Mobile Devices IEEE ICCE 2016 · co-author (3/5) DOI ↗
- Multi-Device Framework with Spatial Clustering ACM Middleware 2019 Industry Track · co-author (5/6) DOI ↗
- SR-GCL: Session-Based Recommendation with Global Context Enhanced Augmentation in Contrastive Learning DLG-AAAI 2022 · co-author (3/5) arXiv ↗
- CIKM 2027 submission Under review · co-second author · title withheld
- KDD 2027 submission Under review · co-second author · title withheld
Talks & Media
2 media appearances · 2 talks delivered · 1 upcoming
- AI Home Appliances = Samsung Samsung Newsroom · AI Vision Inside feature YouTube ↗
- On-Device AI That Will Reinvent Home Appliances AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2025 · AI Tech Lead Program ↗
- Inside Samsung: AI Vision Inside Bloomberg Media Studios · developer interview YouTube ↗
- Orchestrating On-Device AI and AI Agents Cloud & AI Summit 2026 Program ↗
- Self-Evolving Data: How AI Learns to Create Its Own Data AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2026 · upcoming Program ↗
Experience
Career ledger by period · 17 entries from the source record
- 2010.01–2012.06 Samsung Software Membership, Gangnam Software R&D and pre-employment projects
- 2010.06–2010.08 SAIT, 3D Mixed Reality Group Shader-programming-based high-fidelity 3D ultrasound visualization
- 2011 Software Maestro Mentee · co-translated and compiled a pattern language for study groups
- 2012.01–2012.04 Samsung HR Development Center Digit recognition via image processing and MLP; UK inspection automation software
- 2012.04–2012.07 Samsung DMC R&D, S#Project Team Galaxy Note handwriting recognition and Android applications
- 2012.07.30–present Samsung Electronics AI Research Engineer · research and productization of AI services
- 2012.07–2014.01 Visual Effect / Vision Core (MX·VD) Visual Effect Engine, Vision Core Engine, and apps for Android smartphones
- 2014.01–2016.03 Galaxy Gallery Apps/Service 3D face/object modeling, 360° panorama image algorithm
- 2016.03–2019.03 Smart TV Content Recognition Multilingual/mixed-language text and keyword recognition, TV–mobile content recognition, OSD-based automatic content recognition
- 2019.03–2020.01 Wi-Fi CSI Analysis Indoor user location and activity AI from time-series analysis
- 2020.01–2021.02 Samsung C-Lab Project Tech Lead · GAN-based image outpainting and vision-AI photo expansion for Galaxy Gallery
- 2021.02–2021.12 Session-Based Recommendation Tech Lead · SR-GCL graph-contrastive session recommendation — paper and patents
- 2023.01–2023.12 AI Vision Inside Tech Lead · core on-device food recognition for refrigerators, productized
- 2023.12–2024.12 AI Vision Inside Project Lead · designed 9 on-device AI models running real-time on NPU
- 2024.12 AI Vision Inside 2.0 / Family Hub 2025 Project Lead · food recognition, RL-based promotions, feature-embedding-level matching
- 2024.12–2025.12 Food Recognition Service, Digital Appliances Project Lead · 37 fresh-food classes, up to 50 packaged foods, Instacart and Gemini integrations
- 2026.01–present Samsung Research Data Intelligence Team LLM post-training, data-centric AI, dynamic data valuation research