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General Information

Full Name Sunghoon Hong
Date of Birth 5th November 1994
Languages Korean, English, Japanese

Education

  • 2020 - 2022
    M.S.
    Korea Advanced Insitute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
    • Advised by Prof. Kee-Eung Kim
    • Reseach on Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • 2014 - 2020
    B.S.
    Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    • Major in Computer Science
    • 2 years for military service

Experience

  • 2022 - Present
    Research Scientist
    LG AI Research
    • Conducting research on Physical AI, especially robotics.
    • Developed reinforcement learning methods for optimizing petrochemical plant scheduling (recognized with the 2025 LG Award)
    • Proposed combinatorial optimization approaches for circuit design

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • 2025 LG Awards (LG Corporation)
  • 2020
    • Winner of L2RPN WCCI 2020 Challenge (RTE France)
  • 2019
    • AI Scholarship (Yonsei University)

Academic Interests

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
    • Environment Design & Shaping
    • Offline-to-Online Reinforcment Learning
    • Search-Guided Reinforcement Learning
  • Vision-Language-Action Model
    • VLAs for Robotics

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: swimming and working out, etc.