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Junyoung Hwang

Seongnam-si

Summary

AI Engineer with strong expertise in designing and deploying agentic AI systems within mobility environments. Skilled in building vehicle-integrated AI agents that deliver personalised, context-aware services by leveraging real-time driving and user data.

Experienced in developing and optimising AI agents for Android-based automotive platforms, ensuring low-latency performance and efficient resource utilisation under constrained hardware conditions. Proficient in Agentic AI , and advanced algorithm design, with the ability to translate complex AI models into robust, production-ready systems.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

AI Engineer

42dot Inc.
03.2025 - Current

Contract Instructor

POSTECH
09.2021 - 08.2022
  • Lecture: algorithmic problem solving

Intern

Stony Brook University
New York
07.2015 - 12.2015
  • Internship program sponsored by IITP
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Lab
  • Advisor: Prof. Noah Machtay

Intern

LG Electronics
12.2014 - 03.2015
  • Bio informetrics Team

Software Membership

Samsung
01.2014

Education

Integrated Ph.D. - Computer Science and Engineering

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Pohang, Korea
01-2025

B.Sc. - Computer Science and Engineering

Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea
02-2017

Skills

  • Agentic AI
  • Recommendation

Honors & Awards

  • KDD Cup’23, Amazon Multilingual Recommendation Challenge, 9th place
  • 3rd KAKAO ARENA, Melon Playlist Recommendation Challenge, Bronze Prize
  • 한국 대학생 프로그래밍 경시대회, 동상, 2016-11-05
  • 한국 대학생 프로그래밍 경시대회, 동상, 2014-11-08
  • 2016 Coder’s High, sponsored by NEXON, Advanced to onsite final round (11th place)
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2016 ACM-ICPC, Asia, Daejeon, Korea (11th place)
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2016 ACM-ICPC, Asia, NhaTrang, Vietnam
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2014 ACM-ICPC, Asia, Daejeon, Korea (13th place)
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2014 ACM-ICPC, Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2013 ACMICPC, Asia, Daejeon, Korea (15th place)
  • ACM-ICPC Asia, Advanced to 2013 ACM-ICPC, Asia, Danang, Vietnam (Honorable Mention)
  • Samsung Software Membership Project Award, Android Character Lock Screen using aho-corasick algorithm (1st place)
  • 삼성전자 대학생 프로그래밍 경시대회, Advanced to SCPC 2016 onsite final round (Online qualification rounds 1 and 2 passed)
  • 숭실대학교 경진대회, 2016 숭실대학교 IT학부 프로그래밍 경진대회, 1st place
  • 숭실대학교 경진대회, 2014 숭실대학교 IT학부 프로그래밍 경진대회, 1st place
  • 숭실대학교 경진대회, 2013 숭실대학교 IT학부 프로그래밍 경진대회, 4th place
  • 숭실대학교 경진대회, 2012 숭실대학교 IT 학부 프로그래밍 경진대회, 26th place

Projects

  • Product Recommendation for cross-market seller, 2022-01-01
  • E-commerce Product Recommendation, 2021-01-01
  • Btv Content Recommendation, 2020-01-01
  • Point-Of-Interests Recommendation from card payment data, 2017-06-01

Research

  • A Closer Look at Masked Item Prediction for Sequential Recommendation, J Hwang, W Kweon, S Lee, SH Jang, H Ju, and H Yu (preprint)
  • Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation, GS Lee, HS Yu, J Hwang, SK Kang, and H Yu, The ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM’26)
  • Multi-Domain Sequential Recommendation via Domain Space Learning, J Hwang, H Ju, SK Kang, SH Jang, and H Yu, ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’24)
  • Multi-Domain Recommendation to Attract Users via Domain Preference Modeling, H Ju, SK Kang, D Lee, J Hwang, SH Jang, and H Yu, AAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’24)
  • Consensus Learning from Heterogeneous Objectives for One-Class Collaborative Filtering, SK Kang, D Lee, W Kweon, J Hwang, and H Yu, The Web Conference (WWW’22)
  • Topology Distillation for Recommender System, SK Kang, J Hwang, W Kweon, and H Yu, ACM Conf. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’21)
  • Item-side Ranking Regularized Distillation for Recommender System, SK Kang, J Hwang, W Kweon, and H Yu, Information Sciences, 2021
  • PUMAD: PU Metric Learning for Anomaly Detection, H Ju, D Lee, J Hwang, J Namkung
  • Deep Rating Elicitation for New Users in Collaborative Filtering, W Kweon, SK Kang, J Hwang, and H Yu, The Web Conference (WWW’20 short)
  • Multi-Modal Component Embedding for Fake News Detection, SK Kang, J Hwang, and H Yu, IEEE Int. Conf. Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM’20)
  • Semi-Supervised Learning for Cross-Domain Recommendation to Cold-Start Users, SK Kang, J Hwang, D Lee, and H Yu, ACM Conf. Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’19)
  • Action Space Learning for Heterogeneous User Behavior Prediction, D Lee, CY Park, H Ju, J Hwang, and H Yu, Int. Joint Conf. Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’19)

Timeline

AI Engineer

42dot Inc.
03.2025 - Current

Contract Instructor

POSTECH
09.2021 - 08.2022

Intern

Stony Brook University
07.2015 - 12.2015

Intern

LG Electronics
12.2014 - 03.2015

Software Membership

Samsung
01.2014

Integrated Ph.D. - Computer Science and Engineering

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

B.Sc. - Computer Science and Engineering

Soongsil University
Junyoung Hwang