CV

Contact Information

Name Sangmin Lee
Email sm.lee@kaist.ac.kr
Website https://sangmin1208.github.io

Experience

  • 2026 - 2026

    Ulsan, Korea

    Undergraduate Researcher
    Vision and Learning Lab (UVLL), UNIST
    Advised by Prof. Seungryul Baek
    • Focused on 3D vision, human mesh recovery (HMR), and Vision-Language-Action (VLA)
    • Studied SMPL-based human mesh recovery and motion reconstruction
    • Surveyed and presented recent research trends in egocentric vision and VLA at lab seminars
  • 2025 - 2025

    Jeonju, Korea

    Undergraduate Researcher
    Multiscale Lab, Jeonbuk National University
    Advised by Prof. Guebin Choi
    • Focused on data-adaptive approaches in multiscale analysis
    • Studied deep learning applications in NLP and computer vision
    • Prepared a research poster and participated in an academic conference
  • 2025

    Jeonju, Korea

    Teaching Assistant, Statistical Thinking and Society
    Jeonbuk National University
    • Prepared and reviewed instructional materials
  • 2025 - 2025

    Jeonju, Korea

    Participant
    LG Aimers (6th)
    • Completed coursework on Artificial Intelligence and Linear Algebra
    • Participated in a data competition using infertility-related medical data
  • 2024 - 2024

    Jeonju, Korea

    Member
    JBNU Big Data Club (JBIG)
    • Participated weekly in Dacon and Kaggle competitions, followed by code presentations during club seminars

Education

  • 2027 - 2029

    Daejeon, Korea

    M.S.
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Graduate School of Data Science (GSDS), KIRC Lab
    • Incoming M.S. student (starting March 2027)
    • Research interests: fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) specialized for the medical domain
  • 2021 - 2027

    Jeonju, Korea

    B.S.
    Jeonbuk National University
    Statistics, College of Natural Sciences
    • Total GPA: 4.40 / 4.5, Major GPA: 4.47 / 4.5

Projects

  • 2025 - Present
    Medical Image Analysis
    • Collaborating with a university hospital on deep learning-based medical image analysis
    • Developing AI models for clinical data analysis and diagnostic support
    • Working on improving the accuracy and efficiency of medical imaging workflows
  • 2025 - 2025
    Deep Neural Networks for Protein Function Prediction
    • Developed and benchmarked deep learning approaches for enzyme function prediction using the ESM-2 protein language model
    • Implemented ESM-2 + Random Forest and ESM-2 + Multi-Layer Perceptron architectures to predict Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers
    • Achieved the best performance with the MLP approach (Micro F1: 0.89, Macro F1: 0.77), improving over similarity-based methods
    • Applied hyperparameter optimization and class imbalance handling to improve performance on rare enzyme classes
  • 2025 - 2025
    Deep Learning-based Neural Granger Causality for Solar Radiation Data
    • Addressed the limitations of traditional VAR models in capturing nonlinear dependencies in time series data
    • Implemented component-wise MLP (cMLP) and LSTM (cLSTM) models, assigning an independent network to each variable
    • Analyzed Granger causal relationships between solar radiation in Jeonju and key meteorological variables
    • Identified causality structures consistent with established relationships in solar meteorology

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    Academic Excellence Scholarship, Sancheong-gun Local Scholarship
    Sancheong-gun

    Received in 2021.05, 2024.05, 2024.11, 2025.05, 2025.11, and 2026.05

  • 2025
    Challenge Award, J-Point Scholarship Program
    JBNU SW-Center
  • 2025
    First Prize, 2024 Big Data Camp - Prompt Engineering Competition
    COSS
  • 2024
    Yellow Belt, Keun-Saram (Great Person) Project
    Jeonbuk National University
  • 2024
    Grand Prize, 2024 Jeonbuk National University AI Competition
    Jeonbuk National University

Presentations

  • Poster: Deep Learning-based Neural Granger Causality for Solar Radiation Data, The 2025 Summer Conference of the Korean Statistical Society, Gyeongju, Korea (Jun. 2025)

Certificates

  • SQLD: SQL Developer - Korea Data Agency (2025)
  • ADsP: Advanced Data Analytics Semi-Professional - Korea Data Agency (2025)
  • Computer Specialist in Spreadsheet & Database Level-1 - Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2022)

Skills

Programming: Python, R, C, C++
APIs & Frameworks: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Transformers, Hugging Face