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Education

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Mar. 2021 - Present

Undergraduate student in electrical and computer engineering
GPA: 4.26/4.30
18 months of military service included

Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Busan, South Korea

Feb. 2018 - Feb. 2021

GPA: 4.17/4.30 (rank: 4/130)
Graduated with distinction in physics

Publications

QWHA: Quantization-Aware Walsh-Hadamard Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on Large Language Models

Hyesung Jeon*, Seojune Lee*, Beomseok Kang, Yulhwa Kim, and Jae-Joon Kim
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026. (To appear)

*: equal contribution

Experiences

Jane Street, Hong Kong

Summer 2026

Incoming Software Engineering Intern

Architecture and Code Optimization Lab (ARC Lab), SNU

Dec. 2025 - Present

Advisor: Prof. Jae W. Lee

Efficient and Intelligent Computing Lab, Georgia Tech

Aug. 2025 - Dec. 2025

Studied automated pipeline for fixing agentic LLM benchmarks.
Advisor: Prof. Yingyan (Celine) Lin

VLSI Laboratory, SNU

Jan. 2025 - Nov. 2025

Devised a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method tailored for quantized LLMs.
Advisor: Prof. Jae-Joon Kim

Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea

Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2024

Mandatory military service required to all male Korean citizens
Performed full-stack web development tasks, mostly using django and react.js.

Laboratory of Imaging Science and Technology (LIST), SNU

Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022

Studied correction of motion artifacts in MR images by training deep learning models on simulated images.
Advisor: Prof. Jongho Lee

Honors and Awards

Korea Presidential Science Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation

2025 - Present

Full tuition and a living stipend supported. Awarded to approximately 150 undergraduate students nationwide every year.

National Scholarship for Science and Engineering, Korea Student Aid Foundation

2021 - Present

Full tuition supported

Hanseong Nobel Scholarship for the Gifted, Hanseong Sonjaehan Foundation

2019 - 2020

Total of $10000 equivalent

Bronze Prize, Korea Olympiad in Informatics, Ministry of Science and ICT, 2018

Relevant Courses

AI/ML

Mathematical Foundations of Deep Neural Networks
Computational Linguistics
Reinforcement Learning, Search, and Test-Time Scaling of LLMs (graduate)
Machine Learning and Optimization for 3D Data (graduate)

Computer Systems

Computer System Programming
Computer Organization
Introduction to Data Communication Networks
Introduction to Compilers
Scalable High-Performance Computing (graduate)
Digital System Design & Lab
Digital Logic Design & Lab

Other Fields of EECS

Signals and Systems
Introduction to Circuit Theory & Lab
Microelectronics
Introduction to Electromagnetism & Practice
Fundamentals of Control Engineering

Skills

Programming Languages

C++
CUDA
Python
Verilog
JavaScript
OCaml

Frameworks

PyTorch
Hugging Face
Triton
React.js
Django

Tools

LaTeX
Git
Yacc/Lex

English Proficiency

TOEFL iBT: 109/120 (R30/W29/S23/L27)