On-going Projects

Seoul Business Agency (SBA) · Fintech Commercialization Program

ELS Hedging Decision System via Neural Optimal Control

Formulates the hedge-ratio decision for structured products as an optimal control problem, with development carried out by research teams at Sungkyunkwan University and Hanyang University.

2026.07 – Present · Project Lead

TIPS R&D

Investor-Tailored Structured Derivatives via Time-Series Generation

Builds a recommendation and selection procedure for investor-tailored ELS with decision-focused learning (SPO+ surrogate loss), a capital-adjusted objective, and simulation-based screening of maturity exposure.

2026.04 – Present · Technical Lead

Research Grants

National Research Foundation of Korea · Research Grant

Robust Generative Representation Learning of Financial Data Using Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder and Its Applications

2025.09 – 2026.08

National Research Foundation of Korea · Humanities & Social Sciences, Joint Research

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio using Vector Quantization-Variational Autoencoder

Discrete latent factor models based on vector quantization; results published in Knowledge-Based Systems and at IJCAI-ECAI 2026.

2023.06 – 2025.06 · Researcher

National Research Foundation of Korea · Research Grant

Loan Eligibility Classification Model using Explainable Artificial Intelligence

2021.06 – 2023.02 · Research Assistant

National Research Foundation of Korea · BK21 Four

An Education and Research Team for Sharing and Cooperation based Smart Systems

2021.03 – 2025.07

Industry Projects

Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC)

Analysis of Financial Activities using AI Technologies

Defined units of analysis for financial activity data and grouped activity patterns by combining contrastive embeddings with unsupervised clustering.

2025.03 – 2025.07 · Model design and implementation

FnDataLab

Machine Learning-Based Model Portfolios for Retirement Pension Management

Asset embeddings from self-supervised learning, turned into allocations for each investor risk propensity and evaluated by backtest.

2024.03 – 2024.06 · Researcher

Risk X tech Lab

Pricing of Exotic Options and Structured Products via Machine Learning

Deep hedging and neural-operator pricing models for ELS and other structured products, reducing the computational cost of conventional numerical methods.

2023.10 – 2024.01 · Researcher

FnDataLab

Machine Learning-driven Risk Rating Assessment of Global Investment Assets

Contrastive clustering of assets with similar risk characteristics, mapped to risk grades and documented in a validation report.

2023.05 – 2023.08 · Model design and implementation

IOI Soft

Sales Analytics based on Graph Neural Network and Natural Language Processing

B2B transactions modeled as a graph, combining graph neural network representations with text embeddings of the related documents.

2022.11 · Researcher

Hyperlounge

Business Analytics for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Organized the management data of small and medium-sized enterprises into an analyzable form and designed an analytics framework for decision-making.

2021.10 – 2021.11 · Researcher

Korea Forestry Promotion Institute (KOFPI) · Research Grant

Business Effectiveness Analysis on Fine Dust Reduction Forest Project

2021.05 – 2021.10