Four papers accepted to MICCAI 2026
About
I am a Ph.D. candidate at GSDS, KAIST, advised by Prof. Mun Yong Yi* in Knowledge Innovation Research Center (KIRC). My research focuses on Medical Image Analysis, especially Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) for whole-slide and microscopy histopathology. Aiming to build clinically deployable solutions for pathology images, I formulate and tackle diverse real-world problems that arise in practice. More recently, I have expanded my interests to LLMs, exploring automatic generation of medical findings and reports.
News
A paper accepted to Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (IF: 7.4)
A paper accepted to SIGIR 2026
Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026
A paper accepted to WACV 2026
A paper accepted to MICCAI 2025 Workshop (π Best Paper)
Two papers accepted to ISBI 2025
Experience
Graduate Researcher & Project Manager
Multimodal AI-based computer-aided diagnosis for gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsies (Seegene Medical Foundation). Multiclass and multi-resolution MIL, priority-aware mistake severity training, and decision making under uncertainty. Currently PM for a follow-up project (Seegene Medical Foundation): an LLM-based automated interpretation system for comprehensive blood tests, along with research on a separate NIPT system that predicts fetal risk from unreliable maternal blood signals.
Graduate Researcher & Project Manager
Next-generation medical diagnosis system based on AI (Seegene Medical Foundation). Whole-slide segmentation, weakly supervised microscopy pathology classification, microscopy diagnosis team manager.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Safety monitoring model based on IoT for subminiature sensors (IITP). Time-series modeling and anomaly detection in sequential data.
Publications
Selected
Every Error has Its Magnitude: Asymmetric Mistake Severity Training for Multiclass Multiple Instance Learning
Diagnose Like A REAL Pathologist: An Uncertainty-Focused Approach for Trustworthy Multi-Resolution Multiple Instance Learning
RaLMPH: Reliability-aware Learning for Multi-Pathologist Harmonization in Whole-Slide Image Classification
Priority-Aware Clinical Pathology Hierarchy Training for Multiple Instance Learning
Towards Classifying Histopathological Microscope Images as Time Series Data
Other
Beyond Creative Generation: A Deep Generative Framework for High-Fidelity Pseudo-Virtual Prototyping and Design Evaluation
DiagMIL: Uncertainty-Gated Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Resolution MIL for WSI Diagnosis
Missing Modality-Aware Calibration for Trustworthy Brain Tumor Segmentation
Reasoning Trace Divergence: An Empirical Signal for Trustworthy Black-Box MLLMs in Histopathology Classification
Every Preference Has Its Strength: Injecting Ordinal Semantics into LLM-Based Recommenders
DRCoD: Toward Robust Continual Learning of Diffusion Models for Tire Manufacturing Prototyping
Rethinking Pre-Trained Feature Extractor Selection in MIL for Whole Slide Image Classification
Uncertainty-based Data-wise Label Smoothing for Calibrating MIL in Histopathology Image Classification
TireDiff: A Framework for Conditional Tire Footprint Images Generation from Manufacturing Tabular Data
Projects
Research on the Development of LLM-Based Automated Interpretation Systems for Comprehensive Blood Tests
My third consecutive project as PM with Seegene Medical Foundation. We analyze comprehensive blood test findings with an LLM and generate the interpretation report automatically. My main task is the AX of a complex rule-based diagnostic system into an LLM-based one, with the requirement that the generated findings stay faithful to the underlying lab values instead of drifting with the numbers.
Development of a Reliable NIPT Prediction System
A separate track that estimates fetal risk from measurements taken in maternal blood. The core problem is how to fuse signals when they cannot be trusted, and at which confidence level a result should be surfaced to the user, so the system needs reliability estimation, rejection of inconclusive cases, and outlier detection working together.
Development of a Multimodal Artificial Intelligence-Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsies
Based on digital whole-slide images (WSIs) of colon tissue specimens, we developed a diagnostic model tailored for non-malignant cases. In this project, our primary focus was placed on: (a) pre-processing massive WSI datasets, (b) building a high-fidelity model capable of expert-level collaboration with pathologists, (c) optimizing the model's diagnostic prioritization for specimens, and (d) enhancing the model's rejection capabilities for uncertain estimations. Serving as the project manager, I not only led the entire lifecycle but also spearheaded the technical solutions for areas (a) through (d), which ultimately resulted in the successful conclusion of the project and peer-reviewed publicatios.
A Study on the Next Generation Medical Diagnosis System Based on AI
This project aimed to classify gastric and colorectal biopsy samples exhibiting benign conditions versus dysplasia within digital pathology workflows. We pioneered approaches to efficiently train models on gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) while ensuring robust adaptation to newly integrated datasets. Notably, I served as the Project Manager (PM) and lead developer for a follow-up study focused on diagnostic models for noisy, microscope-based images. In my role as PM, I successfully translated Seegeneβs business requirements into concrete technical specifications, steering the team to deliver high-impact engineering outcomes. Leveraging the insight that manual microscopic observations by pathologists function as time-series data, I formulated a novel distance metric based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). This work was successfully published at ISBI 2025. Our developed solution is currently deployed in clinical settings to cross-verify pathologists' diagnostic decisions.
IoT-based Safety Monitoring for Subminiature Sensors
Time-series modeling and anomaly detection for sequential sensor data in industrial safety monitoring. Specifically, I developed a deep learning-based methodology that detects the onset of fire from time-series sensor streams collected by subminiature IoT devices and raises an early alert, so that hazardous events can be recognized and communicated before they escalate.
Awards & Honors
Service
Conference Review
Teaching Assistant
- HanKook Tire AI Education β KAIST-IE
- DS545 Business Intelligence (BI) β KAIST-GSDS
Military Service
- III Corps R.O.K. Army, Inje, Gangwon Province
- 2016 - 2018