Kwangwook Seo

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Data & Language Intelligence (DLI) Lab at Yonsei University, advised by Prof. Dongha Lee.

If you're interested in collaborating on research or exploring new ideas together, please feel free to connect with me anytime! I welcome the opportunity to discuss potential projects and innovative approaches, and I'm always open to hearing from fellow researchers and enthusiasts.

🔎 Research Interest

My research interests encompass a broad range of topics within the scope of natural language processing (NLP). Recently, I have been particularly interested in:

Knowledge Augmentation of LMs with external knowledge sources
Enhancing LM’s internal knowledge activation via curating synthetic post-training data and quality control
Personalized Agents and User Simulation in diverse real environments
Reasoning over structured knowledge (e.g., tables, graph, ...) with complex information beyond general text

📚 Publications

*: denotes equal contribution.

	BESPOKE: Benchmark for Search-Augmented Large Language Model Personalization via Diagnostic Feedback Hyunseo Kim, Sangam Lee, Kwangwook Seo, Dongha Lee arXiv, 2025 Paper / Code
	In Their Own Words: Reasoning Traces Tailored for Small Models Make Them Better Reasoners Jaehoon Kim, Kwangwook Seo, Dongha Lee arXiv, 2025 Paper / Code
	Stop Playing the Guessing Game! Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via Target-free User Simulation Sunghwan Kim, Kwangwook Seo, Tongyoung Kim, Jinyoung Yeo, Dongha Lee EMNLP Findings*, 2025 Paper / Code / Presentation / Poster
	MT-RAIG: Novel Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Insight Generation over Multiple Tables Kwangwook Seo, Donguk Kwon, Dongha Lee ACL, 2025 Paper / Code / Presentation / Poster
	Unveiling Implicit Table Knowledge with Question-Then-Pinpoint Reasoner for Insightful Table Summarization Kwangwook Seo, Jinyoung Yeo, Dongha Lee EMNLP Findings, 2024 Paper / Code / Presentation / Poster
	VerifiNER: Verification-augmented NER via Knowledge-grounded Reasoning with Large Language Models Seoyeon Kim, Kwangwook Seo, Hyungjoo Chae, Jinyoung Yeo Dongha Lee ACL, 2024 Paper / Code / Presentation / Poster

🏆 Honors and Awards

1st Prize – Bigcontest 2022 Data Analysis Champion League, MSIT and NIA
Minister of Science and ICT Award
Optimal Location Selection of EV Slow Charger
Presentation / Blog Post

3rd Prize – 2022 HUFS AI Idea Contetst , HUFS AIEI
Development of SDGs Implementation Analysis System at Universities based on NLP

1st Prize – 2022 HUFS 19th Spring Academic Conference, HUFS
Regression Analysis on Brazilian Equity Index and Macroeconomic Influencing Factors

2nd Prize – 2021 HUFS 18th Fall Academic Conference, HUFS
Financial Ratio Analysis on Brazilian Travel Agencies Before and After COVID-19

📁 Work Experience

Research Intern, NAVER
Naver Place, Team AirSPACE, 2025
Advancing Personalized Place Search and Recommendation with User Simulation and Profiling

Research Intern, Twigfarm
Sol Project 3rd Internship Program, 2022
Enhancing Korean STS benchmark via scoring silver-label inconsistency

📖 Teaching

[AI Expert] Agent basics, Conversational Recommender Systems (2025), Samsung Electronics SNU R&D Center
Teaching Assistant

[AI Expert] Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems (2024), Samsung Electronics SNU R&D Center
Teaching Assistant, Project Mentorship

[AAI3120,CAS3120] Machine Learning (2024S, 2025S), Yonsei University
Teaching Assistant

[AIC2110] Introduction to Data Science (2024S), Yonsei University
Teaching Assistant