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General Information

Full Name Giwon Hong
Date of Birth 29th September 1995
Languages Korean, English

Education

  • Sep. 2023 - present
    PhD student in ILCC program
    The University of Edinburgh
    • Advisor: Pasquale Minervini (Principal), Edoardo Ponti
  • 2018 - 2020
    M.S. in School of Computing
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    • Advisor: Prof. Sung-Hyong Myaeng
    • Thesis committee: Sung-Hyong Myaeng, Alice Oh, Meeyoung Cha
    • GPA: 3.98 / 4.30 (96.44%)
  • 2014 - 2018
    B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
    Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
    • GPA: 4.00 / 4.50 (94.3%)
    • Major GPA : 4.31 / 4.5 (97.72%)

Experience

  • July 2020 - July 2023
    Technical Research Personnel
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    • Alternative to mandatory military service.
    • Working on Question Answering (with Data-scarcity, Numbers, and Graphs), Neural IR.
    • Person in charge of the Exobrain project, detailed task 1 (KAIST).
  • Feb. 2020 - June 2020
    Research Associate
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Services

  • 2022
    • EMNLP Review Committee
  • 2023
    • ACL Review Committee
    • EMNLP Review Committee
    • ARR (Oct.) Review Committee
    • ARR (Dec.) Review Committee
  • 2024
    • COLM Review Committee

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Rich Context Competition
    • By the Coleridge Initiative at New York University.
    • Finalist (Top 4) in phase 1
    • 2nd place in phase 2 ($2,000)