CV

Contact Information

Name Sung-Yub Kim
Professional Title Staff Engineer
Email sungyub.kim@mli.kaist.ac.kr
Location Seoul, South Korea

Professional Summary

Staff Engineer at AI Center, Samsung Electronics. Focused on Foundation models, LLMs, and explainability.

Experience

  • 2024 -

    Seoul, South Korea

    Staff Engineer
    AI Center, Samsung Electronics
    Post-hoc training team @ Language Intelligence PJT., Core Algorithm Lab, AI Center.
    • Improved the Instruction-Following capacity of LLM (≥ 70B) with DPO & Synthetic Data Generation.
    • Improved the reasoning capacity of LLM (≥ 235B) with RLVR & Dataset Pruning.
    • Optimized training (FSDPs, NeMo) & inference (vLLM, SGLang) frameworks for LLMs in HPC (≥ 256 GPUs).

Education

  • 2019 - 2024

    Daejeon, South Korea

    Ph.D.
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Artificial Intelligence
  • 2017 - 2019

    Seoul, South Korea

    M.S.
    Seoul National University (SNU)
    Industrial Engineering (Mathematical Optimization)
  • 2013 - 2017

    Seoul, South Korea

    B.S.
    Seoul National University (SNU)
    Industrial Engineering & Mathematical Science

Skills

Machine Learning: Foundation Models, Large Language Models, Explainability, Loss Landscape, Distributed Training
Coding: Python, R, LaTeX
Distributed Computing: FSDP, NeMo, vLLM, SGLang, HPC