Youngmin Kim | Carnegie Mellon University

Youngmin Kim

I am a master's student at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. I study Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in the Language Technologies Institute.

Prior to joining CMU, I worked as a machine learning engineer at Kakao for 2 years, where I led the development of Recommender Systems for Kakao's webtoon (online comics) services including Piccoma and Kakao Webtoon.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University.

For a more detailed account of my academic and professional history, please refer to my resume.

News

Aug 2021 · I joined CMU's MIIS (Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems) program
Nov 2020 · I presented a talk (Korean) on Piccoma's popup recommendations at if(kakao) 2020, Kakao's developer conference
Aug 2019 · I joined the Advanced Recommendation Technology team at Kakao

Projects

Recommender Systems for Piccoma

Piccoma is an online comics service provided by Kakao Japan. I implemented recommender systems each tailored to the specific and newly emerging promotional needs of Piccoma. I conducted experiments to discover optimal methods of recommendation depending on the interface and user experience.