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I’m Jihyung Moon, Co-founder & CTO at SoftlyAI

We see AI as more than a tool—it’s a partner in progress. Our mission is to redefine productivity, helping professionals move beyond simply doing more to focus on achieving what truly matters.

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Work Experience

• [JAN 2022 ~ ] Co-founder & CTO, SoftlyAI
• [OCT 2020 ~ DEC 2021] Founding NLP Research Engineer, Upstage
• [DEC 2018 ~ OCT 2020] NLP Research Engineer, Papago, NAVER Corporation
• [FEB 2018 ~ DEC 2018] ML Research Engineer, Search Modeling, Search & Clova, NAVER Corporation

Publications

• Analyzing Norm Violations in Real-Time Live-Streaming Chat. EMNLP 2023
  Jihyung Moon*, Dong-Ho Lee*, Hyundong J. Cho, Woojeong Jin, Chan Young Park, Minwoo Kim, Jay Pujara and Sungjoon Park
• KOLD: Korean Offensive Language Dataset. EMNLP 2022
  Younghoon Jeong, Juhyun Oh, Jaimeen Ahn, Jongwon Lee, Jihyung Moon, Sungjoon Park, and Alice Oh
• KLUE: Korean Language Understanding Evaluation. NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track [github]
  Sungjoon Park*, Jihyung Moon*, Sungdong Kim*, Won Ik Cho*, Jiyoon Han, Jangwon Park, Chisung Song, Junseong Kim, Yongsook Song, Taehwan Oh, Joohong Lee, Juhyun Oh, Sungwon Lyu, Younghoon Jeong, Inkwon Lee, Sangwoo Seo, Dongjun Lee, Hyunwoo Kim, Myeonghwa Lee, Seongbo Jang, Seungwon Do, Sunkyoung Kim, Kyungtae Lim, Jongwon Lee, Kyumin Park, Jamin Shin, Seonghyun Kim, Lucy Park, Alice Oh, Jung-Woo Ha, and Kyunghyun Cho
• PATQUEST: Papago Translation Quality Estimation. WMT 2020
  Yujin Baek*, Zae Myung Kim*, Jihyung Moon, Hyunjoong Kim, and Eunjeong L. Park
• BEEP! Korean Corpus of Online News Comments for Toxic Speech Detection. ACL 2020 [github]
  Jihyung Moon*, Won Ik Cho*, and Junbum Lee
• Revisiting Round-Trip Translation for Quality Estimation. EAMT 2020
  Jihyung Moon, Hyunchang Cho, and Eunjeong L. Park

Talks

• AI and Marginarlized Language. July 2023. ICML Panel Discussion.
• KLUE and XTREME. Sep 2021. XTREME Talks (Google Internal Seminar Series).
• KLUE: Korean Language Understanding Evaluation. Sep 2021. BigScience Episode #2. [youtube]
• [AI와 저작권법] 내가 만든 AI 모델은 합법일까, 불법일까?. Feb 2021. Boostcamp AI Tech.
• 서비스 관점에서의 AI 모델 개발. Nov 2020. 멋쟁이 사자처럼.
• 이 선 넘으면 침범이야, BEEP!. Sep 2020. PyCon. [slide] [youtube]
• BEEP! Korean Corpus of Online News Comments for Toxic Speech Detection. July 2020. 카카오브레인. [slide]
• 파파고가 언어를 배우는 방법. June 2020. 인문학도를 위한 언어과학 콜로키움, 서울대학교 동아문화연구소. [slide]
• 온라인 뉴스 댓글 생태계를 흐리는 어뷰저 분석기. Oct 2019. 데이터야놀자. [slide]

Projects & Contributions

• [SEP 2019] Did my small part to help keep the widely-used pandas library tidy [PR #27928]
• [NOV 2018] PyTorchTutorial for Beginners [github]
• [JUL 2017] Tensorflow Implementation of Relation Network (RN) [github]
• [JAN 2017 ~ FEB 2017] 구글 여성 소프트웨어 캠프 (Develop with Google) 1기

Education

• [MAR 2016 ~ FEB 2018] M.S., SNU Big Data AI Center, Seoul National University
• [MAR 2011 ~ FEB 2016] B.S., Major in Chemical and Biological Engineering and minor in Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University

Academic Services

• Reviewer for EMNLP 2021, EMNLP 2022, ACL 2023, and more

Patents

• 활동 데이터 분석을 통해 비정상 사용자 그룹을 탐지하는 방법 및 시스템 (METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ABUSER USING LOG DATA ANALYSIS), KR 1022091000000, filed 5 Sep 2018, issued 22 Jan 2021
  김태욱, 문지형, 최인식, 박효균

Things you don’t need to know

• Emoticon creator, debuted with “Daily life of SOTA, an ML Research Engineer”