Ph.D. Candidate

Intelligent Software Lab, Chungnam National University

🇰🇷 South Korea

💌 Email: [email protected]

📕 Github: https://github.com/hyenee

CV.pdf

👩🏻‍💻 Research Interests

• Large Language Model
• Text Generation
• Data Augmentation

🎓 Education

Chungnam National University

• Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (2022.03 ~ 2026.02 (Expected))
  • Intelligent Software Laboratory
  • Adviser: Prof. Sangkeun Jung
• M.S in Computer Science and Engineering (2020.03 ~ 2022.02)
  • Intelligent Software Laboratory
  • Adviser: Prof. Sangkeun Jung
• B.S in Computer Science and Engineering (2016.03 ~ 2020.02)

📑 Publications

International Journals

1. Taewook Hwang, Hyein Seo, Jeesu Jung, Sangkeun Jung, “Exploring Selective Layer Freezing Strategies in Transformer Fine-Tuning: NLI Classifiers with Sub-3B Parameter Models”, Applied Sciences, 2025. (SCIE) [paper]
2. Taewook Hwang, Hyein Seo, Sangkeun Jung, “Local Back-Propagation for Forward-Forward Networks: Independent Unsupervised Layer-Wise Training”, Applied Sciences, 2025. (SCIE) [paper]
3. Hyein Seo, Taewook Hwang, Jeesu Jung, Hyeonseok Kang, Hyuk Namgoong, Yohan Lee, Sangkeun Jung, “Large Language Models as Evaluators in Education: Verification of Feedback Consistency and Accuracy”, Applied Sciences, 2025. (SCIE) [paper]
4. Jeesu Jung, Hyein Seo, Hyuk Namgoong, Sangkeun Jung, “Assessing and Scoring Difficulty of Hard-to-Solve Data in Summarization Tasks”, IEEE Access, vol 12, pp. 197376-197388, 2024. (SCIE) [paper]
5. Hyein Seo, Sangkeun Jung, Jeesu Jung, Taewook Hwang, Hyuk Namgung, Yoon-Hyung Roh, “Controllable Text Generation using Semantic Control Grammar,” IEEE Access, vol 11, pp. 26329-26343, 2023. (SCIE) [paper]
6. Jeesu Jung, Sangkeun Jung, Hyein Seo, Hyuk Namgung, Sungryeol Kim, “Sequence Alignment Ensemble with a Single Neural Network for Sequence Labeling,” IEEE Access, Volume 10, Pages 73562-73570, July, 2022. (SCIE) [paper]
7. Hyein Seo, Sangkeun Jung, Taewook Hwang, Hyunji Kim, and Yoon-Hyung Roh, "Syntax Vector Learning Using Correspondence for Natural Language Understanding," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 84067-84078, 2021. (SCIE) [paper]

International Conferences

1. Yerim Han, Hyein Seo, Hyuk Namgoong, Sangkeun Jung, “An Analysis of the Impact of Problem Paraphrasing on LLM-Based Mathematical Problem Solving“, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (AACL 2025)
2. Hyein Seo, Taewook Hwang, Yohan Lee, Sangkeun Jung, “FEAT: A Preference Feedback Dataset through a Cost-Effective Auto-Generation and Labeling Framework for English AI Tutoring”, The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) [paper]