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About Me

Chanjun Park is a researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a focus on Data-Centric AI, Machine Translation and Large Language Models (LLM). He is currently working as a Technical Leader (TL) at the Upstage LLM Team. His current interests include forming an LLM-based ecosystem, and he has initiated projects such as SOLAR, the Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard, and the Up 1 Trillion Token Club. In 2023, he received his Ph.D. from Korea University, supervised by Professor Heuiseok Lim, for his work on “Data-Centric Neural Machine Translation”. From 2018 to 2019, he worked at SYSTRAN as a Research Engineer. Chanjun is the founder and chief scientist of the KU-NMT Group, and has received the Naver Ph.D. Fellowship in 2021. He served as the Virtual Social Chair at COLING 2022, and is currently serving as the Program Chair for the WiNLP Workshop and Publication Chair for the DMLR Workshop. He has published more than 170 papers in the field of NLP. See CV for more information.

Research Interest

Large Language Model (LLM), Data-Centric AI, Machine Translation

Education

• 2019.09 – 2023.08: Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University (Advisor: Heuiseok Lim)
• 2015.03 – 2019.02: B.S. in Natural Language Processing & Creative Convergence, Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS) (Advisor: Pum-mo Ryu)

Professional Experience

• 2022.07 – Now: Upstage, Technical Leader (TL)
• 2022.03 – 2023.07: Upstage, AI Research Engineer
• 2018.09 – 2019.07: SYSTRAN, Research Engineer
• 2018.06 – 2018.08: SYSTRAN, Research Engineer Intern

Academic Services

• Program Chair: EMNLP 2023-Widening NLP (WiNLP) Workshop
• Publication Chair: ICLR 2024-Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR) 2024
• Virtual Social Chair: COLING 2022
• Program committee: NAACL 2024-Industry Track, ICML 2023-Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR), ACL 2023-Industry Track, ACL 2023-BEA, EACL 2023, EACL 2023-Insights, ACL 2022-Insights, NAACL 2022-Industry Track, Reviewer of ARR (2022~Current)
• Reviewer: ICLR 2024 Workshop Proposal Reviewing, ETRI Journal, IEEE Access, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Cybernetics and Systems, Applied Sciences, Electronics, Entropy, Connection Science