Jaehyung Seo

Assistant Professor, KonKuk University

Affiliation: Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence)

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University (Seoul)

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University (Seoul)

B.S. in English Language and Business School at Korea University (Seoul)

Jaehyung Seo

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Commonsense Reasoning, Hallucination, Model Editing, Multimodal Understanding

Research Highlights & Collaboration

• 2026: Published 11 papers at top-tier CS/AI conferences (CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, AACL-IJCNLP).
• 2025: Published 9 papers at top-tier CS/AI conferences (ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL).
• 2024: Published 7 papers at top-tier CS/AI conferences (ACL, EMNLP, EACL, COLING).
• 2023: Published 5 papers at top-tier CS/AI conferences (ACL, EMNLP, IJCNLP).
• 2022: Published 5 papers at top-tier CS/AI conferences (NAACL, AACL, COLING, LREC).
• 2021-2025: Published +16 papers in Q1–Q2 Computer Science journals.
• Industry collaborations with Samsung Research, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Samsung SDS, KT, Hyundai Motor Company, NCAI, and NAVER.
• International research collaborations with A*STAR (Singapore), York University (Canada), Microsoft Research Asia, IIT Delhi (India), Copenhagen University (Denmark), New Uzbekistan University (Uzbekistan), MBZUAI (UAE).

Honors & Awards

2026.07 Best Paper Award Nomination (top 1%), The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
2026.07 Two oral presentations (top 5%), The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
2026.06 Highlight Paper (top 3.7%), The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)
2025.10 BEST Paper Award, The 37th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology
2025.08 Selected as a Member of the National Representative AI Research Team (with NC AI)
2024.10 BEST Paper Award, The 36th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology
2023.10 Outstanding Paper Award, The 35th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology
2022.12 NAVER Ph.D Fellowship Award, Scholarship Award
2022.12 1st Place in WMT 2022 QE Task 3, EMNLP 2022
2022.10 Outstanding Paper Award, The 34th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology
2021.10 Outstanding Paper Award, The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology
2021.07 4th Place in CommonGen 1.1 Leaderboard, World Record

Academic Services

Reviewer:
• AI/ML: ICLR (2025, 2026), AAAI (2026)
• NLP: ACL (2023, 2024, 2025), EMNLP (2023, 2024, 2025), NAACL (2025), COLING (2022)
• CV: CVPR (2026)

Chair:
• ACL 2026 Oral Session Chair (Hierarchical Structure, Syntax, Parsing)

Invited Talks & Presentations

• Invited Presentation at EMNLP 2025 NLLP Workshop
• MIST & IITP (2025): AI Frontier International Conference (VIP Session)
• DGIST (2025): Commonsense Reasoning or Hallucination?
• Dongguk University (2023): Introduction to NLP and Commonsense Reasoning
• NongHyup Bank (2020): Data Science Training for New Employees