Youngjae Yu

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Semiconductor System

Youngjae Yu 조교수

위치Bldg 18, Rm 415, School of Transdisciplinary Innovations

연락처02-880-8466

이메일youngjaeyu@snu.ac.kr

학위Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Seoul National University

분야Natural Language Processing Language Grounding with Vision Multimodal Perception & Reasoning Physical AI, Embodied Agents Robot Learning AI for Science & Education Social Commonsense Reasoning AI for Social Good, AI Safety, Alignment & Responsible AI

Education

– Ph.D. Seoul National University (SNU) Korea(2018) in Department of Computer Science and Engineering
– B.S. Seoul National University (SNU) Korea(2015) in Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professional Experience

– 2025.09~Current: Assistant Professor, School of Transdisciplinary Innovations & Department of Computer Science and Engineering
– 2023.03~2025.08: Assistant Professor, Yonsei Univeristy School of Computing
– 2021.05~2023.03: Allen Institute for AI, University of Washington(Postdoctoral Researcher)
– 2018-2021: esearch Scientist, Ripple AI
– 2018: Research Intern, Redmond, Microsoft

Honors and Awards (Selected)

– Natural language processing, Embodied AI safety at Google Research Scholar Award 2025
– Best Method Paper Award at NAACL 2022, NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics.
– Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2023, SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization.
– Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024, Can Large Language Models be Good Emotional Supporters? Mitigating Preference Bias on Emotional Support Conversation
– Outstanding Paper Award at Neurips 2024 Workshop on Open-World Agents, Integrating Visual and Linguistic Instructions for Context-Aware Navigation Agents

Recent Research Achievements

– Science News : Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’in the eye of the beholder? (2025)
– The AI : Yonsei University is home to a LLM AI Student., DigitalChosun: The Identity of the ’AI Student’ Created by Yonsei University Students,AI Counseling Chatbot, AI Teaching Assistant,Chatbot Summit (2024)

Education