I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the
Department of 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 center on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLM agents, and their applications in recommender systems, though not limited to them.
I am also collaborating with W.W. Grainger, Inc. on retrieval-augmented generation for large-scale industrial product search.
Previously, I earned my M.S. in Computer Science at UT Dallas under
Prof. Latifur Khan, working on domain-specific language models, and my M.S./B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University under Prof. Mye Sohn, focusing on recommender systems.
For full details on my research and publications, see my
CV.
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- Aug 2026 – Agent surevey "A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents" is accepted to TMLR 🎉
- Apr 2026 – SUPT "Subgraph-level Universal Prompt Tuning" is accepted to Information Sciences 🎉
- Feb 2026 – RECODE-H "RECODE-H: A Benchmark for Research Code Development with Interactive Human Feedback" is accepted to ICLR 2026 🎉
- Nov 2025 – CLIP-SBR "Cluster-aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-based Recommendation" is accepted to BigData 2025 LLMs4All 🎉
- Nov 2025 – ColdRAG "Adaptive Candidate Retrieval with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Construction for Cold-Start Recommendation" preprint is available on arXiv 📄
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- Sep 2025 – LLMInit "LLMInit: A Free Lunch from Large Language Models for Selective Initialization of Recommendation" is accepted to EMNLP 2025 Industry Track 🎉