Greetings!
I'm Seolhwa Lee, currently an AI researcher at Lotuspetal AI. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at TUD and University of Copenhagen in UKP Lab and CoAStaL group advised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Anders Søgaard, respectively. Before that I received my integrated M.S. and Ph.D degree of Computer Science from Korea University in 2021.
I am interested in NLP tasks with human inspired computation model and conversational agents. Specifically, evaluation of dialogue agents, generation, dialogue summarization.
Feel free to reach out for any collaboration and discussion on related projects.
News
- [2021-10] Two papers are accepted at EMNLP workshop! [workshop1] [workshop2]
- [2021-09] I decided to join at University of Copenhagen CoAStaL NLP group 😉
- [2021-06] Ph.D dissertation was finished!
- [2021-06] One paper is accepted at ACL workshop! [paper]
- [2021-01] Started new project Dialogue summarization.
- [2020-12] Preprinted "An Evaluation Protocol for Generative Conversational Systems". [arXiv]
- [2020-12] Two papers are accepted at EMNLP workshop! [Paper 1] [Paper 2]
Education
- Korea University
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2015 - Aug. 2021
- Advisor: Prof. Heuiseok Lim
- I received integrated Master and PhD degree in computer science at Korea University.
- Johns Hopkins University
- Visiting PhD Student, 2019-2020
- Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), advised by Prof. João Sedoc
- Participated in three different projects:
- Created a dataset of conversations between people and state-of-the-art chatbots for WOCHAT+DBDC5 workshop
- Collected crowd-sourced labels for the data and experiment several baseline models for evaluating generative dialogue systems.
- Built COVID19 QA system (This effort leverages technologies developed under the support of DARPA program.)
- Carnegie Mellon University
- LearnLab Summer School (2015), participated in track "CSCL(Computer Supported Collaborative Learning)", advised by Prof. Carolyn Rosè
- Developed the final project based on Google search aided system for education.
- Baekseok University
- B.S. in Computer Science, 2011-2015
- I graduated from Baekseok University with a B.S. in Computer Science in Feb 2015.
Experience
- Lotuspetal AI, US
- AI Researcher, 2025 - current
- Research Topic: RAG
- LinqAlpha, US
- Research Scientist & AI advisor, 2023 - 2024
- Research Topic: Text embedding model
- Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- Postdoctoral Researcher, 2023
- Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, advised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych
- Research Topic: Privacy-aware NLP, Differential Privacy
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021 - 2022
- CoAStaL group, advised by Prof. Anders Søgaard
- Research Topic: Privacy-aware NLP, Differential Privacy
Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Award (2020), Korea University
- Naver PhD fellowship Award (2019), Naver corporation
- Best Paper Award (2018), The Korean Association of Computer Education
- Best Paper Award (2018), The Korean Society of Fashion Business
- Best Paper Award (2016), The Korean Association of Computer Education
- Information Technology Master Scholarship (2013), KT corporation