I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, advised by Prof. Philip S. Yu, and a member of the Big Data and Social Computing Lab.

My research interests lie in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based agents, and recommender systems. I’ve been working on developing LLM-driven recommendation frameworks that incorporate reasoning, knowledge modeling, and generation, with the goal of enhancing the flexibility and intelligence of recommendation systems.

For details on my research and publications, see my Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

I earned my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, where I worked on domain-specific pre-trained language models under Prof. Latifur Khan (see Master's Thesis).

I also hold an M.S. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, where I discovered my passion for data mining and recommender systems under Prof. Mye Sohn’s supervision. During that time, I completed the AI Program at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.