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Jeonghoon Kim
Jeonghoon Kim

Jeonghoon Kim

Team Lead

  • NAVER Cloud
  • South Korea

About

I am a research scientist and team lead at NAVER Cloud, working on large-scale foundation models. My research focuses on understanding how pre-training, model architecture, and data shape the learning dynamics and capabilities of Transformer models. My work spans foundation model pre-training, multilingual and multimodal learning, and model compression. I aim to bridge fundamental research and large-scale model production, turning empirical insights into more efficient AI systems.

Work Experience

  1. NAVER Cloud

    Dec.2021 - Present

    NAVER (opens in a new tab)’s cloud and AI company, building the HyperCLOVA X (opens in a new tab) foundation models and NAVER Cloud Platform (opens in a new tab).

    Foundation Research, Team Leader

    Focus areas

    • LLM Fundamental Research — Pre-training dynamics & Transformer architecture [1, 2, 3]
    • Korean Expert Development — In charge of improving the Korean-language capabilities of HyperCLOVA X. [8, 12, 16]
    • AudioLLM Mission — Project Manager for the development of duplex and interaction models. [11, 13, 14]

    Earlier work

    • (2025) Omni-foundation models and multilinguality of large-scale Transformers [9]
      • Served as Mission Lead for Omni-Pathfinding.
    • (2021–2023) Model compression & quantization [4, 5, 6, 7]

    Promotions

    1. Team Leader, Foundation Research Team, Hyperscale AI Division, 2025
    2. Technical Leader, Foundation Research Team, 2024
    3. Technical Leader, Hyperscale AI Efficiency Team, 2023
  2. LG Energy Solution

    Nov.2020 - Nov.2021

    Business Strategy, Data Scientist

  3. Nepes

    Jan.2018 - Oct.2020

    Future Intelligence, Researcher

    • Military service (South Korea).

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence

    Mar.2025 - 2027 (expected)

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST (opens in a new tab))

    Advisor: Prof. Jinwoo Shin (opens in a new tab)

    Alongside my full-time role at NAVER Cloud, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in AI at KAIST under Prof. Jinwoo Shin, supported by a NAVER Cloud grant.

Publications

*equal contribution

Lead author

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Co-author

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    Arxiv (preprint, 2025)

    ReGUIDE: Data Efficient GUI Grounding via Spatial Reasoning and Search (opens in a new tab)

    Hyunseok Lee, Jeonghoon Kim, Beomjun Kim, Jihoon Tack, Chansong Jo, Jaehong Lee, Cheonbok Park, Sookyo In, Jinwoo Shin, Kang Min Yoo

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Service

Reviewing

  • International Conference on Machine Learning
  • Neural Information Processing Systems
  • International Conference on Learning Representations
  • Association for Computational Linguistics

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